(No image for this post. I wanted a picture of moldy food, but apparently...not in high demand) With a clear understanding of the definition of Evil (see previous post) we see that the Flood was not in any way a rash or capricious decision on God’s part. It was an extreme measure to save a... Continue Reading →
On Evil
What do we mean by “Evil”? There are some popular thoughts running through modern society, in “polite society” today that nobody is evil. I mean, other than mid-twentieth century Germans and their leaders…and maybe certain Republicans, right? But, nobody is or should be called “Evil”. At heart everyone is good and wants to be good... Continue Reading →
Genesis Diaries 5:24-6:8
We all have this idea that if we just had more time, more years, more decades, then we would be a far wiser people than we are. Perhaps we even dream of the great perfect Utopia would could build with centuries of knowledge and understanding to draw on. One of the many things the book... Continue Reading →
Genesis Diaries 4:15-5:24
In the depths of his suffering, guilt, and despair at being cut off from the land, his family, and the Lord, Cain grieves. He declares that he is now condemned to be a vagabond and a wander, and whomever finds him will try to kill him because of what he has done. There is... Continue Reading →
Genesis Diaries: 4:10-15
Sometimes we look at the Bible and see something that isn’t there. Our brains are information gathering and pattern recognizing machines par excellence. I say that at the outset here because I’ve noticed something in the narrative with Cain and God’s punishment of him and I’m not sure if it means anything at all. What... Continue Reading →
Genesis Diaries 4:9-10
The murder done and the body presumably in the ground, Cain walks away. I’ve often childishly imagined Cain as sociopath. In my mind he clubbed Abel over the head, and buried him with out a regret, without grief. He was evil and sin incarnate in my little head as I watched a rage faced paper... Continue Reading →
Genesis Diaries 4:8
We have no way of knowing how long it was between God’s warning to Adam and the actual eating of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil by Eve and then Adam. Similarly, we have now way of knowing the length of time between God’s warning to Cain and the... Continue Reading →
Genesis Diaries: 4:1
And so, the LORD God drives out the man and installs a pair of Cherubim with flaming swords that turned every which-way to guard the way to the Tree of Life. I’ve been chuckling a little to myself all morning as I’ve imagined this scene given the popular conception of cherubim/cherubs. The image of two... Continue Reading →
That Darn Tree
When I was a child, I was taught that the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was a bad thing. How could it be otherwise? God told us that just touching it meant death. The Tree was a test of whether or not Adam and Eve really loved God and would trust Him... Continue Reading →
Genesis Diaries 3:8-13
"And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden." So the pattern that would plague, and continues to plague, all humanity begins. To me... Continue Reading →
Finding Narnia 
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