A day late, I know...
Okay, I think the thing that stuck out to me most is that God is very in control of everything. (and that you can start sentences with "and")
Genesis 1:3
"And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light."
In the first Chapter God is always saying(commanding), seperating, gathering, naming, creating and such. He was just all like, "Let it be," and it was. So I guess it just made me think something like, "He's got this, it alright," God is in control...of everything.
Skipping on to day six. Why does God say, "Let us...in our..."? When I read this I wonder who he was talking to...the fish and birds? Okay, just kidding. But really, who? To me this was a little confusing, probably because I constantly think of God as one. I don't pray three prayers at a time specifically addressing God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. I don't know...why does it mention God as plural now, and not before? Is God plural in general?
Another thing, why didn't Adam and Eve eat from the tree of life? Or eat from the life tree first and then knowledge? Or a question I like to ask is that have you ever realized that we now don't know the difference between good and evil?
Randomness
Looking at my little notes, it says that deception cause the downfall of the human race and also leads people away from God nowadays.
Chapter 3:12 Who does Adam blame? Or is it really her fault? Hahaha. Just a random thing. LEFT!
I was thinking bout all the deception stuff...was sin existing at the beginning? No, because God made everything and saw that everything was good. Where did it come from then? Free will? Then when God saw everything with free will was it good? Even if it brought on sin?
The punishment stuff explains a lot...
Okay, I'm done for today...
4 comments:
"Or a question I like to ask is that have you ever realized that we now don't know the difference between good and evil?"
I believe that we do have some knowledge of what is right and wrong. Our conscience is the one always bugging us if we do something wrong. All people have certain morals. Though they may vary, sometimes are very similar. Most people would agree that killing others is evil.
darn you, Eve!
women ruin everything!
....totally kidding
but i agree with david, we do have an idea of what is right and what is wrong. When you do something bad you have the initial feeling of guilt or regret, however one may rationalize with themselves to the point where they don't believe it is wrong anymore.
i agree with david and evan that we do know what is right and wrong. evan has a good point in that some people try to rationalize their way out of doing something bad, which is what (i feel) a lot of people do. everyone has their own reasons and everyone believes they're right. i mean hitler believed that he was doing the world a favor by exterminating the Jews right?
also that part when God referred to himself plurally confused me when i read this a couple (maybe more than that...) years ago. i think i asked jen ho about it and i think that her answer was something along the lines of "God is God, the Son, and the Holy Spirit" so i think yea he was referring to the Trinity when he said "us" and "our" but as it is it still doesn't totally make sense to me...good question ^^
I guess to to answer your Tree question, the serpent chose the tree of knowledge.. so they ate from that tree. Also, God stated "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever" (21) after they ate from the tree of knowledge. I always thought like, what the bunny why would God want to kick them out if they were like "the humans must not be allowed to eat the tree of life." Well after further analysis, God's reason for banishing them was two pronged, justice and mercy. First off, they sinned and so the only way to eternal life is God and if we have a broken relationship with God, and without Jesus to repair it, we shouldn't have it. This is not because he was afraid of them living forever, he was exercising mercy by caring for them because God didn't want for us to suffer for all eternity living in a world of sin.
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