Editorial February 1, 1982 Issue

Noah and the nuclear threat

NATHAN A. TALBOT

An increasing number of people feel a thoughtful concern for mankind's future. Some are anxious over environmental issues. Will their earth, their sea, their atmosphere, be engulfed in growing pollution? Others wonder about the sinking of human thought in the contaminated pools of immorality. While many warily eye the rising tide of economic uncertainties, there are those who see humanity's major urgency as a need to face the nuclear threat and a flood of radiation.

When people are troubled by events that affect their world, they often look to other people for direction and reassurance. If we feel the need to consult others on issues that are this serious and this urgent, we're wise to look to those who have lived close to God—those whose insights rest on a more timeless and certain foundation than personal opinion or human guesswork.

The biblical Noah was such a man. In so many ways he felt God's presence and followed His direction. Noah's perception of God and His message for humanity came at a crucial time. There were monumental troubles—so many, in fact, that people on a huge scale were deluged by their beliefs of materialism. Mankind was virtually lost in the flood that followed. And the awful possibility that this could happen to us is reverberating in human consciousness. Could it? Could mankind in our time be very nearly wiped out?

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