The BIBLE. That's right.
Some of the questions I have as I read.
Part one. Genesis - Exodus 16.
1. God and time? Eternal or everlasting?
2. Imago dei... relational? What makes us so special?
3. What's the deal with being naked and feeling no shame?
4. Ok, man and wife becoming one flesh... ???
5. What happened to Abel after he died?
6. Why would God pretect Cain from anyone who wanted to kill him?
7. Where to cave people fit into all of this?
8. How can God say he's surely going to do something, and then not do it? (Gen 6:13) Why did he make us? WHY?
9. How could all the species of animals fit into the ark?
10. So, if we all speak the same language then nothing will be impossible for us, eh? How powerful are we? What can we do?
11. Is this where the cave people come in? After Babel?
12. Are we supposed to think that God just doesn't use disease and suffering as a direct consequence of sin anymore? Did Jesus change that? What about Satan?
13. "Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness." What?
14. Why did Abram fall asleep while God made a covenant with him?
15. How come everyone sleeps with everyone else?
16. Ok, Genesis 18. God appeared to Abraham as three men? Or what? What about His glory?
17. How come Lot is so willing to throw his virgin daughters to the lecherous mob in Sodom? Sure, he's helping angels, but still.
18. Why did God pick circumcision as the sign of the covenant?
19. WHAT is the DEAL with Abraham almost sacrificing Isaac?
20. So Abraham's servant gets a clear-cut sign from God on who is supposed to marry Isaac. Where's my sign?
21. Was Jacob supposed to deceive Isaac and pretend to be Easu, or did the Lord intend for it to happen some other way? Should Jacob have stuck with Leah, or did God intend for him to have multiple wives? Am I a Calvinist or Arminian?
Further questions as reading progresses.
-Cara
Part one. Genesis - Exodus 16.
1. God and time? Eternal or everlasting?
2. Imago dei... relational? What makes us so special?
3. What's the deal with being naked and feeling no shame?
4. Ok, man and wife becoming one flesh... ???
5. What happened to Abel after he died?
6. Why would God pretect Cain from anyone who wanted to kill him?
7. Where to cave people fit into all of this?
8. How can God say he's surely going to do something, and then not do it? (Gen 6:13) Why did he make us? WHY?
9. How could all the species of animals fit into the ark?
10. So, if we all speak the same language then nothing will be impossible for us, eh? How powerful are we? What can we do?
11. Is this where the cave people come in? After Babel?
12. Are we supposed to think that God just doesn't use disease and suffering as a direct consequence of sin anymore? Did Jesus change that? What about Satan?
13. "Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness." What?
14. Why did Abram fall asleep while God made a covenant with him?
15. How come everyone sleeps with everyone else?
16. Ok, Genesis 18. God appeared to Abraham as three men? Or what? What about His glory?
17. How come Lot is so willing to throw his virgin daughters to the lecherous mob in Sodom? Sure, he's helping angels, but still.
18. Why did God pick circumcision as the sign of the covenant?
19. WHAT is the DEAL with Abraham almost sacrificing Isaac?
20. So Abraham's servant gets a clear-cut sign from God on who is supposed to marry Isaac. Where's my sign?
21. Was Jacob supposed to deceive Isaac and pretend to be Easu, or did the Lord intend for it to happen some other way? Should Jacob have stuck with Leah, or did God intend for him to have multiple wives? Am I a Calvinist or Arminian?
Further questions as reading progresses.
-Cara
posted by Cara at
5:08 PM
3 Comments:
i appreciate your questions. i can't say i've asked all of them, but certainly many of them. it is interesting how we all ask different questions of the same text though. so have you proposed to resolve any of the questions, or are you going to leave them as questions for a time?
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Display Name, at 11:21 PM
mostly questions. but I will answer if I find answers. do YOU have answers for me?
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Cara, at 1:33 PM
Well, I wouldn't say I have answers. Some are just eternal debates (2). Some questions I actually am not sure what you're asking (4, 5). Some, I think I could answer (6, 10, 13).
10 I just really figured out recently, at least, I believe I have, after reading through the text in a hebrew class and having my professor lecture on it. The Hebrew reads for that "all that they purpose to do will not be withheld from them." What it means specifically then is that they will be able to build the city, which is completely counter to the divine mandate to spread across the earth, multiply, and fill it. The people wanted to do exactly the opposite and build the city so that they would never have to leave each other. So God confounded it to all for the spread of humanity as was originally commanded.
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