Ragnarok

I'm a big fan of Natural Law Theory - the idea that there is this deeper truth that everything is pointing towards and that everyone thinks in terms of despite their ascribed beliefs.  One of my favorite examples of that is the old Viking apocalypse myth of Ragnarok.

The story goes that, at the end of the age, Odin and Thor and Loki and all the gods come together for this big fight, most of the great ones dying, and after that, through a series of natural disasters, the earth drowns in a great flood.  It is saved by the remaining gods who hold everything together, and it comes out new and clean and unblemished.  And the new age begins.

See a few parallels?  I'm thinking this natural law, the one "written on our hearts" ought to direct us pretty directly to the truth found in the Word, and it seems like the old sea wolves came up with a pretty decent version of the end/beginning.  Not to mention baptism, redemption, and history.

In an infinitesimally smaller way, this blog is the result of a minor apocalypse - the end of my Rwanda blog.  Enjoy it.