Genesis 8 - 11 (AKA. Where were we.)

On with it

Honestly, over this last week I have been super busy. The pressure is piling on at work. I have not been sleeping well for some unknown reason. I've been contemplating the meaning of many things. Through all that, I felt really down about religion today. I was standing during the opening worship today and had this overwhelming feeling of "this is all bullshit." Then sitting through the rest of the service didn't get any better, I found myself questioning the interpretation of the words of the bible at every turn.

So with that, I suppose, on with the questioning...

Genesis 8

After 40 days, God stopped the floods. Noah sent out birds to know if the water had dried up. I find this distinctly odd, supposedly at this point the ark is resting on a mountain, he should be able to simply look outside the ark and see if there is water. The only window was supposedly on top, but I would expect one to be able to climb out onto the top of the ark. This also makes me think that family nearly went batshit crazy after those 40+ days of being in that dark ark. It would make more sense to me if he looked out and saw nothing but devastation, so he sent out the birds to see if they could find plant life (Eve probe, a la Wall-E).

I still find it hard to palete the idea of "unquestioning obedience" that some use Noah as an example of.

Genesis 9

The animals are food for the humans, but the blood must be removed for that is for God. Then something about Noah getting drunk and cursing Caanan, his grandson. Why? Because Caanan's father saw Noah naked and told his brothers. His brothers took Noah a garment and walked backwards so they would not see him. Why seeing his father naked was so horrible, who knows. It doesn't even say they he intentionally did.

Genesis 10

Genealogy, boring.

Genesis 11

Apparently the descendants began work on a city. God claimed they could do anything and so he spread them across the earth and made them speak differing languages. Why? Cuz he is God.

And... more genealogy.

Bible critical

He is a bit sour about these chapters. Though he raises an entertaining point about the Tower of Babel, did God feel threatened? I also find it interesting that it uses "we", who else is going down to confuse the language of the people and spread them out? Angels?

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