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Not another Bible-blog!: 11 June 2006
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Genesis is a tricky book, because the account of the Creation is so polemical. And I do not wish to enter into that polemic. Passions are so strong on either side that this is never a constructive discussion but a battlefield with no winner. Surely this is not a way to progress, but to leave the gap between science and religion wide open. It is important to remember that the ancients were more liberal with the Creation account. Having said that, I also believe that the Word of God does not change, and th...
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Not another Bible-blog!: 27 August 2006
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Cain took a wife. Now, who could she be? We have the parents, Adam and Eve, plus their two sons, Cain and Seth. The text focuses on these fours characters, but does not claim that the first couple did not have many other sons and daugthers in their long life. They were told to "multiply and replenish the earth". Cain must have then found a sister-wife in the neighbouring towns founded by some of his known or unknown brothers and sisters. Some insteresting aspects in the Adam genealogy:. Adam's first-born...
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Not another Bible-blog!: 01 April 2007
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There was a man called Thera, who, although commanded to go west, settled en route in Mesopotamia. God then spoke to Thera's son, Abraham. Familiar to Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, telling him to leave his kin and his land, to go some place God had decided to give him and his descendants. The well-known stories of Abraham and his wife Sarah are said to come from different traditions sewn together and edited in episodes taking a few chapters of Genesis. One can't but see the shadow of the time Abrah...
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Not another Bible-blog!: 16 July 2006
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Before going onwards with life outside of the Garden of Eden, two more points about the life back in the Garden:. I've been thinking of the nature of Man and the nature of God in the light of the "Let us make man in our image" and "male and female he created them". These expressions make me wonder about a plurality of gods or one God with no gender:. If there was a plurality of gods - as the ancients believed for a while- composed of God and his Shekinah. Yet, the book tells us there was just one. Poster...
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Not another Bible-blog!: 19 October 2008
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Life follows destruction again in Genesis 19 as it did in Genesis 9. Lot and his two daughters have escaped the destruction of the plain. How will Lot have descendants now? Lot's daughters get him drunk and have sex with him. To become pregnant. From them come the people of Moab and the people of Ammon. Ridiculing these people's birth was a way to despise these enemies of Israel. This episode also shows that Abraham is the chosen one while Lot seeks to survive. The text uses a style that shows traces of ...
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Not another Bible-blog!: 03 September 2006
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The Sex Of Angels. Just before the Flood takes place, we are told that the Sons of God saw how the women of Earth were beautiful, they lusted after them, married them and begat children. These children were called "Nephilim". So much has been said to explain and interpret that passage found in Genesis 6:1-10. Or why God repented from creating humans and decided to "wipe them out" from the face of the Earth! That sounds like a drastic measure for inter-marriage! Of course, I believe that God is watching a...
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Not another Bible-blog!: The Test
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Then comes an intense episode that leaves no-one cold: God asks Abraham to offer Isaac as a sacrifice! It seems it was a vision, in a dream, for it happens at night. The following morning, Abraham takes his son, Isaac, along with two servants with him to travel to the place indicated in the vision. During the three days it takes to reach the mountain, what is going through Abraham's mind? Isaac was Abraham's favorite son! Isaac was the son through which God had promised Abraham his line would continue!
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Not another Bible-blog!: 25 June 2006
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The Fall of Man. The Fall as explained in Genesis has been used and misued. Over the centuries to control men and women and to explain all the evils in the world. The Bible however does not make such claims and we actually know very little about the Fall. The Bible does not hold women responsible for Evil like some had it! Reliefs on European medieval churches even went as far as representing the serpent with women features! Yet that theme is often used in today's songs or ads. The Bible says that the Se...
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Not another Bible-blog!: 10 December 2006
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Noah built an altar to offer a sacrifice to God. God liked the smell of it and swore he would never destroy humans again, despite their strange evil dispositions, and the rainbow became as a sign of this covenant. Replenish the land and multiply", God commanded. It was the same commandment as the one given to the first inhabitants of this world. Humans still had dominion over the animal world, but one concession was made: It was now OK to kill beasts for food. God decided to bear with men's violence.
