Tuesday, April 6, 2010

The New Beginning


A lot more problems start to occur on Earth throughout chapters three to nine from the Genesis. Adam and Eve give birth to two sons, Cain and Abel. Since God seemed to prefer Abel over Cain because of his lovely sacrifices, Cain ends up killing his own brother. God of course, showing his human-like emotions, curses Cain and sends him to another place, away from his parents:

Gen. 4
[9]And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
[10] And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
[11] And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
[12] When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

Cain, then has generations of children and grandchildren, until the famous Noah is born. At the time when Noah lived, everyone seemed to be evil and unjust, so God decided to bring a flood to kill them all. As simple as that. But, he wanted Noah, the kind and generous one, to live, so he gave instructions to survive the flood:

Gen. 6
[18] But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
[19] And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
[20] Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
[21] And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
[22] Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

So, Noah happily did what he had to do and managed to survive the flood along with his family and a pair of each of all the animals on Earth. After the flood was over and Noah stepped on land once again, God decided to never do that again and made a covenant with Noah and all his future descendants.

No offense to anyone but God seems to be a bit bipolar sometimes throughout the Genesis. He seems to be very human-like and gets angry many times. Second of all, I kind of find it a bit odd how he suddenly just decides to kill everyone on Earth but leaves one alive. Afterward, he realizes that he shouldn't do it again. Anyway, The Bible seems more interesting when you analyze it as if it were any normal book.

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