Rainbow flag in his hand. In the German Peasants' War of the 16th century, the rainbow flag together with the peasants' boot ("Bundschuh") was used as the sign of a new era, of hope and of social change. The choice of the rainbow in the form of a flag harkens back to the rainbow as a symbol of biblical promise. According to the Bible, God first created the rainbow as a sign to Noah that there would never again be a worldwide flood, also known as the Rainbow covenant. The South African flag is sometimes referred to as the "Rainbow flag". Rainbow
God and Sex: What the Bible Really Says God and Sex: What the Bible Really Says God and Sex: What the Bible Really Says is a book by Professor Michael Coogan, published in 2010. Coogan that, in the Hebrew Bible, there is no prohibition of premarital or extramarital sex for men, except for adultery, i.e. sleeping with the wife of another man. Coogan affirms that premarital sex for women was "discouraged", but the Bible has a word for the sons of unmarried women, i.e. they were allowed to give birth to such sons, although their sons were relegated to an inferior social status. He also claims that Paul