David Journal

Tag: Genesis

  • The nature of covenants

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    I like the description of covenants I’m the broader sense beyond simply religious settings. I especially like the description of a covenant as a relationship of truth. A covenant is a relationship of trust. When God invited Abraham to make a covenant He was inviting Abraham into a partnership where each would trust in what…

  • Scattered

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    If all of mankind came from a single garden with a single set of parents then they stayed within one central region until the Tower of Babel. If, on the other hand, this record is simply the family through whom Christ came then they had little if any interaction with outside societies prior to Babel.…

  • The flood

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    Having considered the possibility for this record of the seed of Adam to only follow one of multiple origins of man (God could have planted multiple gardens and placed a man and woman in each) I also consider the possibility that this flood didn’t cover the planet but only all the lands known to the…

  • Genesis generations

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    I wonder if all the sons listed in Genesis 5 were firstborn sons or if they were simply the line of sons through which we arrived at the pivotal figure of Noah. If they were firstborn sons it makes you wonder why they waited between 60 and 200 years to start their families. I understand…

  • The Genesis fall

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    It is interesting to read the amount of the fall in Genesis with fresh eyes. When the Lord calls to them and asks Adam if he has eaten the fruit Adam is not blaming Eve for his choice, he is explaining that he joined her in the choice to keep the other commandment. Also, God…

  • The Genesis creation

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    I never before considered but “the firmament” is the atmosphere—the thing that sets Earth apart from uninhabitable worlds. I also noticed that good explicitly tells Adam that plants were his for food but never days the same about animals. The Genesis version also lists the rest of the seventh day before the creation of man.

  • Not so old

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    Joseph lived to see his great great grandchildren and while at 110 he would be considered extremely old today, his father had lived to 147, his grandfather to 180 and his great grandfather to 175.

  • Emotional whiplash

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    Imagine the violent swings of emotion among Joseph brothers as they are accused of being spies and then given a reasonable way to exonerate themselves then getting when they find their money returned to them. When they go up again they are greeted warmly and assured that they had no debt from the first visit.…

  • Joseph’s timeline

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    Joseph was seventeen when his brothers turned against him. It’s possible some little time passed before they sold him into slavery but if he was eighteen by then that’s likely the limit we can’t know how long he was with Potiphar before being imprisoned but he was with Potiphar long enough to be put in…

  • Close brothers

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    I hadn’t realized that twelve of Jacobs children – all but Benjamin – were born while he was still living with Laban, his father in law. He said he was with Laban 20 years. I’m not sure if that was 20 years in total or of it was 20 years after he had served Laban…