Random Musing

Genesis 30-32

Ok, I skipped some chapters. I read them, I just skipped posting them. :)

I don’t really like Jacob. He is that person who is slimy. The one who lies and cheats and gets away with it. He is that person who does all the things that we are told not to, the things that aren’t supposed to prosper you in the end. But it worked for him.

I thought Labans treachery would teach him a lesson, but it didn’t seems to. I think that it came down to his meeting God, to finally change him. Literally, he left a different person. Different name and all.

I wonder if there physically wrestled or mentally or spiritually. Or maybe some of each.

Genesis 13-15

I wonder if Lot knew that Sodom and Gomorrah were wicked people when he chose to go that way?

What would I choose? The desert to the west or the fertile land to the east? Ignoring the fact of Sodom and Gomorrah. Just considering the fact that if I chose the better land, my uncle gets the worst. But if I chose the worst land, then will my family be able to survive?

Why didn’t they just take a little bad with the good? Couldn’t they share?

One of the struggles that I think Christians have if who do we hang out with. Parents tell there kids not to hang out with the “bad crowd.” But isn’t that who Jesus hung out with. It seems that every other chapter of the Gospels has Jesus with sinners, tax collectors, prostitutes, etc.

Genesis 10-12

Where I come from Nimrod is not a very nice thing to call people. Times have changed.

It makes me wonder is other phrases, words, etc that we read in the Bible and think mean one thing, actually mean another. I have been told the desert and wilderness are reversed in their means, at least what we think they mean. Biblical wilderness is what we think of as a desert. Biblical desert means wilderness.

Abram/Abraham makes me feel better about myself. He was one of the most faithful an unfaithful persons in the Bible. God tells him to go and he goes. Seemly without any idea of where. He leaves the comforts and perhaps riches of home to go God only know where. But then has his wife lie because he is afraid. That is so like me. Faithful in some areas and weak in others.

It comforts me to know that God can still use me. That there is hope. That God doesn’t demand instant perfection. That I am allowed to grow.

Genesis 7-9

Why did the raven not come back but the doves did?

Local Flood? Global Flood? I think it was global. Do I have proof? nope. But then again I don’t think there is proof one way or another. I have been told that the fossil record is indication of a massive flood. I’m not a geologistso I can’t say one way or another.

The idea that slowly over time sand, dirt, whatever builds up over a wide area, like hundreds of miles by hundreds of miles doesn’t quite make sense. The thought that whatever builds up and then other stuff gets on top and builds up, just doesn’t make sense. The whole process is supposed to make thousands of years. If that is true then how do animals get stuck in the middle of it.

It might make sense if all of the sudden a whole lot of stuff gets deposited at once.

Some people say the flood did that. But I don’t now if I think that. It seems that if that was true then the same type of animal would be in most of the strata.

I read once that a whale was vertical throught several layers of strata, but I couldn’t find it. So maybe someone made it up.

Maybe someone can give me insight.