Thursday, April 8, 2010

Understanding Abram

Its interesting to see how all of the sons of Noah went their own ways. It says that each son went out after the flood and created their own nations. Its an interesting way to show how nations and countries began in the world. For once this creation was not made by God but it was probably pushed by him. Nations like "Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh," rose from the hand of man and not by the hand of God. This also reminds me of how the more science advances the more we are proving that our believes, the believes in this book, can be mere fairytale. Man is overpowering God, even in the 21st century.

The sons of Noah came but they lived all together and spoke the same language but ruled different nations. They explained this in Genesis 11 so I was a bit confused above.

" Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city."
What I got from this is that God actually doesn't want them to interact together so that they will in a way not reach their full potential. He is putting a halt to them and the plans they have together. Its interesting to think that we all speak different languages because a guy somewhere thought we would be too powerful unified under one language.

The story of Abram is 3 chapters long. I didn't really understand the whole part of being in Egypt. They went there to escape a plague but then they left and then many things happened. They parted ways with Lot, why? The only part I really understood was the part when the maid is blessed by an angel while the wife is in a way judged. She shouldn't have been jealous she chose for her maid to be with her husband. I guess no matter if you ask or not, a woman will always be jealous of another with her man.

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