In the popular Bible story of Noah and the Flood, the concepts of ethics and sanctions are important details.
In terms of Ethics, we see that the reason God sends the flood to destroy the earth is that Mankind was terribly wicked, and God saw the only way to fix it was to destroy everything. But we then see that there is one man whom God favors, and so He instructs Noah to build an Ark so he lives through the flood.
God then destroys the earth, with only Noah, his family, and some of every animal remaining. . This is an illustration of sanctions; mankind was wicked so its negative sanction was to be destroyed, but Noah was good so his sanction was to be saved from the flood.
After the flood passed and the Ark landed upon dry ground, he built an altar to the Lord and the Lord made a covenant with him to never again destroy the earth. This is another instance of a positive sanction from God.
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