While the Bible's account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a biblical inerrantist, I believe that what the Bible teaches is true and bow to the text, including its teaching about the Flood and its universality.
The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment.
Ultimately, the soul will receive either judgment or mercy through Christ.
The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve.
The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
Christianity affirms that Jesus severed the link between suffering and deserving once for all on Calvary. God put the ledgers away and settled the accounts.
It's only through Christ that we can take full advantage of God's mercy and forgiveness through repentance in Jesus' name.
Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.