Here’s the little passage that starts out Genesis 6:
When men began to multiply on earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of heaven saw how beautiful the daughters of man were, and so they took for their wives as many of them as they chose. Then the LORD said: “My spirit shall not [...]
Archive for July, 2006
Gensis Chapter 5
The thing I love about this chapter is that in the generations between Adam & Noah, folks lived a really, really long time. Adam was a hundred and thirty when he begat the lesser known son, Seth, and nine hundred and thirty when he died.
Remember, Chapter 5 is one of the passages leading [...]
Genesis Chapter 4
I’ve never really understood the story of Cain and Able.
Cain and Able are the sons of Adam and Eve. Able is a shepherd and Cain is a farmer. They both bring offerings to God and God favors Abel’s offering over Cain’s. Cain is jealous. He takes his brother out in a field and [...]
Genesis Chapter 3
When you Google Original Sin, you get thousands of pictures of Antiono Banderas & Angelina Jolie, and some really disturbing porn.
But you also get Michelangelo, which you see here.
Punishment
It’s interesting that Eve gets the brunt of bad press for original sin, because when the original sin buck got passed from Adam to Eve [...]
Genesis Ch. 1-3, Creation
Alrighty then….let’s blog the bible, baby!
You know, I’d forgotten how action packed Genesis was. Here’s a little rundown of what’s to come.
Creation of the world, creation of man and woman. There’s the whole original sin thing, and one man one woman marriage thing…I thought I’d have a few chapters before I had [...]
