the world, noah & abram.

first of all, ima sorry this is a bit late,
but lets get blogging.

day 1:
so many people know (or at least i hope they know) about God creating the world in 6 days. SIX DAYS. that is nuts. but we read that God can just make things on demand-if he wants light, he gets it. if he wants water, stars, livestock, he gets all of it. i think its pretty amazing how powerful he is and pretty darn cool that we get to appreciate his works. i also notice it repeatedly says that a) God saw it was good and b) and there was evening and there was morning. i want to know if anyone of you guys have any thoughts to put in on that.
what are we going to do with adam & eve? God makes eve out of adam, and eve takes the fruit. and she just has to bite it and give it to adam. so now we are all guity of sin.

day 2:
we find out adam and eve give birth to cain and abel. i doooooooooooo remember a sermon about this(:
cain is selfish, and only gives the Lord his fruits from his soil, but abel offers the fat portions of the firstborn of his flock. mmmmm, sounds yummy, aiight? and so the Lord is favoring abel over cain (who wouldnt?) and cain is jealous. that jerk. in fact, cain is so immensely jealous, he kills abel. that jerk. that wont do any good for him. well the Lord punishes him and cain cannot take it. waitttttttt up, tiffany has a question. the bible says that cain believes someone will kill him as soon as they find him but the Lord tells cain that whoever kills him will be punished seven times harsher. i thought the Lord wanted to punish cain? or is this just an expression once again? anywayz, eve is given the blessing of having another child, seth, to replace abel's death.
who built the ark? noah, noah. who build the ark?! noah did........
i didnt know adam was noahs ancestor. pretty groovy.
so first, the Lord limits everones living days to hundred and twenty years, which can definitely be seen these days i believe. and THENNNNNNN the Lord sees what a horrible, disgusting, sinful, repulsive world all the men have made it into, and decides to punish us by sending hoards of floods. yea, God would do that(: lucky for a guy named noah. the Lord tells him to build an ark and warns him about the flood and tells him to gather his wife, sons, sons' wives, and dem animals-two by two.

day 3:
so way, way, way, way, wayyyyyy long ago-it rains for 40 days and 40 nights. and it rained, and rained, and rained. all the living things in the ark lived-HOOORAY. too bad for those living things that were left behind, because they were wiped off the surface of the earth): finally, after 150 days, God rememberes noah and stops the waters from those waterheavensC: what i liked about this ending was that after noah sends out a raven to check out the water, he sends a dove to see if the water receded from the ground. the first time, the dove came back. the second time, it came back with an olive branch-good news, buddy! the water has receded. you know what they say: third times a charm. so the third time, the dove never returned-which is actually happy in this case because it means the water has finally dried up. and so noah and his family and his animal friends come out and noah builds an altar to thank the Lord. and thanks to noah, the Lord promises that all life will never be cut off by means of a flood ever again. and a rainbow appears, signifying the newly established covenant.

day 4:
in the beginning of genesis 11, people that speak the same language are building a tower. as i read this, i was confused why the Lord would want to confuse the people. he put them all over the world and left an uncomplete tower, which i guess is the tower of babel. in the geneology from shem to abram, it also tells you how long each person lives. but i thought the Lord limited humans to live only to 120 years, so why do they live so much incredibly longer? and now abram. the Lord obviously sees potential in abram, what a lucky duck. as i read about his adventures in egypt, i realize that abram is one clever cookie, tricking the egyptians about his wife and such. i was afraid that the pharaohs men were going to slaughter him after finding out he lied about his wife, because, earlier, abram said that they might have taken him if they knew they were married. did the pharaoh marry abram's wife, while they were still married then? well, when they left egypt safely, abram and lot split up the land. when abram got to his portion, the Lord gave him more advice and abram built an altar. and war breaks out. the bad guys take lot-abrams nephew. he saves him and others, defeats the bad guys, and just dominates. the king of salem, melchizedek, blesses abram and was given a tenth of everything. and then the king of sodom asks for abram's people. but i told you-abram is a smart cookie. he tells him that he will not take anything because he will take advantage and will only share with those who were on his side.