Saturday, November 29, 2008

Thanksgiving: Quality Time With Loved Ones.

This would be a good Norman Rockwell painting for the new millenium; grown ups on their laptops and children with their PS2's. Technology.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Bible Confusion Part 1.

So I finally decided to start reading the Bible from start to finish. I'm starting out with the Old Testament; Genesis.

Already at the start, this is starting to sound very familiar; creation of the first day (and it was good). But then it starting to sound like heaven was on Earth. They mention that "The Garden" in which the forbidden apple tree was located, is somewhere between rivers that supplied water to the garden, one of them being the Euphrates River (Genesis 2:10-14). I always thought that Adam and Eve were in heaven to begin with, ate the apple and then were shipped off to earth to tend to "the soil."

Adam and Eve then have sons.....sons only. How can you populate the world with sons only? Cain and Abel, talk about the extreme in sibling rivalry. "God did always like you best" (Genesis 4:5).

Now, Genesis 5:1-32 reads like the A&E family tree. When did human life become so short? Adam lived 930 years. Plus the Adam lineage of the men, Seth, Enosh, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, and Lemach, had their children from 60 and 200 years old! Noah was 500 when he had sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth! Geez, and I stopped having children at 33!

So now I'm wondering, where did the other women come from that wed the Adam's family since Eve was it and the other daughters would have been considered incest? It's becoming clear that I'll need to switch to the "New Believers" version of Bible reading. That book has side notes regarding current times, social circumstances, and context in which the scripture is referring to.*

*New Believer's Bible, New Living Translation, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Impatient Healing Process.

I keep testing the waters to see if my hand has healed enough to start playing again. Not quite. But here's a result of a feeble attempt.