The rainbow according to the Bible:
God flooded the world he was mad at us for being such wild little kids. But he let Noah off with a light warning. He said Noah you build that boat and gather some things and you can live. [why just Noah wtf? Why not start over entirely].
Noah builds this boat and the floods happening and he gets into an argument with his wife allegedly [this is not often talked about but it's in the Canterbury Tales. What did she say? Why didn't she want on the boat? How did he handle that?]. Eventually Noah all his family and their family and the animals get on the boat and look for safety amongst this flood.
This flood covers the earth. But Noah has this dove he sends out to look for plausible land. So the dove comes back eventually with an olive branch 
[international sign of peace] meaning there's land.
Noah finds the land and the first thing he does is he builds a shrine dedicated to god…and kills animals for a sacrifice in thankfulness. God is pleased with this.
God says "I do set my bow in the cloud and it shall be a token of a covenant between me and the earth". God essentially says the rainbow is a bond between man and holiness in respect that god will not command another punishment upon man as terrible as the flood ever again.
If god was so mad at us to begin with why did he keep Noah? Why not start over? Why not make something free of sin? As much as Noah was thankful why was there such a need for sacrifice. Was an altar not enough? This covenant promised that god would never be so petty with punishment.
So what does that mean for hell and anything else. Are the Ten Commandments simply guidelines? Is hell this promise of reprimand for sin in an after life? Does god make good on his promises? If god made me a promise god has to live with the same level of consequence I do when they pushed the Ten Commandments.
I can live with being a disappointment to creation. Can god live with disappointing us?
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