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Heavenly Father not so heavenly

Father's Day was yesterday, and the past few years it's made me think of God as a father figure. I'm not the only one. Here's Dwindling in Unbelief's Father's Day post, updated from last year. One thing I'm going to en…
Genesis 36 — Oh my darling Concubine

Nothing earth-shattering in Genesis 36. We have a long, boring list of descendants with virtually no action happening. Esau moves away from Jacob because the former has acquired just too much stuff (as we saw with Abrah…
Genesis 25 — Give me your birthright, or die!

Abraham dies in this chapter, but not before finding another wife and keeping busy siring more boys. It doesn't say why he does this (other than the obvious explanation), since he just sends all his other kids all away s…
Genesis 24 — looking for SWF, no Canaanites, please!

This is a long-winded, but interesting story. I think it reveals a lot about the mindset of the author and/or the people of the day. First, you would think a marriage would be important enough for someone to take care o…
Genesis 22 — If you love me, kill your son

If you really love me, prove it by killing your son! That's what God says to Abraham in this chapter. God doesn't make Abraham go through with it, though, so all's well that ends well, right? There is so much wrong wit…
Genesis 21 — EweTube

Some more great family fun here, with some ewes thrown in at the end for fun! Sarah the 90+ year old has a boy, Isaac. She thinks it's hilarious that she would have a son at her age, as does everyone else. That rascal …
Genesis 20 — She ain't married, she's my sister

So here we have Abraham passing off Sarah as his sister again (how tantalizing a woman she must have been, even approaching 100 years old, that the local leaders just couldn't keep themselves from marrying her!). But thi…
Genesis 18 — Please Yahweh, don't hurt 'em

We have two different episodes in this chapter. First, God and Abraham have dinner together with Sarah (and a few men?), then Abraham tries to plead with God not to kill an entire city. In the first part, God appears b…
Genesis 12 — Plagued Like an Egyptian

In this chapter, we see the Egyptian Pharaoh and the people in his palace punished because Abram and Sarai lie to them. Not very fair, but we've already seen (and I'm sure will see many other times) that God is anything …