Of Songs and Sins

The only thing I can say is that I have started to enjoy all these poem-like books in the Bible. Whether it be the conciseness it obtains, or the actual meaning and value of each and every verse, I don’t know. But is seems as if each and every poem, or what you see fit to call it, has a meaning to it and goes deeper than you might imagine.

Psalms 23:3:

He restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of
righteousness
for his name’s sake.

We always hear the word Holy and always relate it to God. Everything containing a connotation of being above-all and powerful, and righteous, pertains to a description of God.

Here we see a description of what God does in his life.

What he is basically saying is that, with God, our souls will always be pure. We will never be masked by any negative shields or unwelcomed shortcomings, because being with God, having him in your heart, is like having a drink of pure, cleansing water.

Bad thoughts or influences that might change our ways for the worst will never come to affect us because our souls will always be ‘restored’ for the better; As long as we have Him in our hearts.

We are in synch to try and pursue a right way of life, if not only for us, but for the gratification that we are God’s sons, and for Him we will do anything, good deeds or helpful acts and right choices that we do in His name, for Him.

Psalm 23:4:

Even though I walk through
The valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me
No matter the circumstances, whether you are going through the Downs of Downs or fighting a battle in your heart or giving in to grievances, God is always here.

Yes, the repetition of his name and His Holiness may be getting repetitive, but it is a fact. Yes, you can indeed make a fact, but this is more a fact delving into the depths of faith; Faith that in life, when you come across an unsuspected throwback or test of fear, God is always with you. Through the dark and the light, He is always there for you, helping you overcome evil, finding true righteousness, and just along for the ride we call Life.

Psalms 23:5-6:

My cup overflows.
Surely goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of
the Lord
Forever.

I basically just quoted the whole chapter, but oh well.

What I have come to find, and what you all may have noticed as well, is that this passage is most likely dedicated to honor the Lord and express his importance to us, the impact he has on our lives.

With Him, our cup is so full it overflows, we are that filled with His fullness. You can’t help but succumb to the goodness and love that make Him up, having those lovely emotions revolve around you throughout our life.

And just believing his presence is with you and the power of his existence, is all you need to be with Him forever.

Then we see a different sort of inquiry in Psalm51:1:

Have mercy on me, Oh God,
According to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.
Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

In this passage, David is basically repenting, but not from a certain cause. Well, yes, he’s asking for forgiveness from committing adultery with Basheba, but I think that is just an incentive for the passage, which delves into a more broad level of asking for forgiveness, but for everything.

He asks to be cleansed, washed of sin; a sin that has been with him since the day he was born.

We are all sinners, it is unquestioned.

But we have the chance to ask to lessen them to the point where they exist, but we know of their existence in our bodies, and try our best to overcome them.

With God in our hearts and souls we can see through the darkness and fog crawling its way in the form of sin, and overcome the want and temptation with Him helping us throughout the way.

Ruthless Has Feelings

I used to like David.

I really, really did.

But my all-too-naïve perception of him faded once I got the entire story.

How can a boy with humble beginnings and such a ‘kind’ heart and belief in the Lord, end up becoming a ruthless man that kills someone just because he is not invited to a sheep shearing?

And then manages to steal said guy’s wife?

Right.

I don’t give Abigail any credit on her prize, either.

What started as a story of courage and bravery has now turned into the epic of a man’s downfall from purity, if it may be called that.

Now, he is making it his personal duty to constantly raid communities slaying all, so that word of his behavior does not get back to Achish.

Another thing that tugged my heartstrings was Saul’s death, as well as the death of his three sons, including Jonathan. Sadness came for Jonathan, whom I have learned to care for since he makes himself out to be such a kind, loyal man.

David felt the same way, and makes it so, in Second Samuels chapter 1, “I grieve for you, my brother Jonathan, You were most dear to me. Your love was wonderful to me. More that the love of women.”

I have yet to truly understand whether I am fond of David.

But maybe he does have feelings after all.

Whirl Wind

I guess most people see the story of David as a whirlwind of a ton of different emotions, lessons, shows of character. I mean, you take tiny little guy whose only way of living is helping his lonely dad with the cattle, and then you have a seven-foot giant whose mere height over-rules the fact that he is worshipped for his complete and utter essence of destruction.

Now, take a scale, a mere vote, and who wins?

Obviously it’s going to be the skimpy kid with a severe fetish for slings and stones that is going to knock the mighty giant unconscious.

Well.

That’s how it goes.

So here, we have just witnessed the pure existence of courage, in the form David.

And surprise.

I wonder if this is supposed to be an indirect way of saying that in life we should learn to overcome our fears, and surpass whatever means in search for reaching our goals. Basically, just taking risks in the unthinkable and maybe you’ll be lucking out? And maybe it has nothing to do with luck, but more with God?

Any who, this certain success leads to Saul upgrading David in his services, happy that he had finally found someone worth doing the job.

All the while, David is soon becoming friends with Saul’s son, Jonathan, who makes a covenant with him, for some reason or other. I have yet to understand the pure reason and need for all these random covenants, but it is God, so what can I say?

Okay, that was random, sue me.

Back to the point, David was sort of a legend. Working for Saul’s army, they used to come back from an assignment or battle with the men saying, “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his Ten thousands (1 Samuels 18:7).

Uh-oh.

Did they have to compare the two of them? Did they really have to say their names in the same sentence while visibly anointing one’s superiority and awesomeness (big word, huh?) over the other, namely, Saul?

People are stupid.

And because people embrace their stupidity and display it like a second skin, Saul began to feel a little green monster crawl up the side of his already mesed-up existence.

No one likes Mr. Jealousy (Cue singy-songy voice).

Apparently, Saul is not too big on following the trend and views himself as a nonconformist.

Because boy, did jealousy crawl its way up his ass.

I’m talking, want you dead, tie-you-up-with-hemp-rope-set-you-on-fire-and-get-high-off-the-fumes-of-your-burning-flesh type of jealousy.

The guy has problems.

But David had something Saul lacked.

God.

And plainly said, Saul never succeeded in killing him, the reason behind it completely fathomable.

And maybe the help from his best friend Jonathan when he warned him that his dad (Saul) was going to go all whacko on his ass.

But then again, that was probably God, too.

And then there’s the fact of the chopped bodies David found, the remains of Saul and Jonathan, at the end. Why did they have to be cut into pieces, seriously?

This is a story with a number of emotions in a jumble of sorts. There’s courage, jealousy, loyalty (to God, and in Jonathan to David), betrayal (Jonathan helping his father’s enemy), forgiveness, in the form of David finding Saul in a completely shameful state, and not killing him.
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It’s kind of cool in the way it seems to mix up all these different actions and acts of kindness, or unkindness, for that matter, in one simple story.

A story that might not be so simple after all.

Paramount Being

All I have to say is chapters 38 through 41 consisted of basically God speaking and jumbling on about how amazing he is over anything else and how no one else can come to go up against him.

And Job says so in Job 42: 3 :

“You asked, ‘who I’d this that obscures my counsel
Without knowledge?’
Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too
wonderful for me to know.”

Well, in a way I can’t criticize or question God’s motives.

Yes, in the previous entry I did voice some inconsistencies on how the Lord tests people, but I can’t go any further than that.

Maybe it’s the matter of me being Christian and having grown up knowing and confiding in His word and trusting it whole-heartedly.

Maybe it’s just having been raised to believe in His power, His Holiness, and His being Almighty altogether to even begin to voice a little critique that comes to my mind.

Because, objectively, have it be someone that I don’t know or have no previous relation with, I could analyze his every move and judge the reasons to why he does such sometimes questionable things.

But I can’t.

Because, no matter the circumstances, I believe that He is Holy, and All-powerful, and right in whatever he chooses to do.

So yes. He did test someone by dumping him into a deepness of never surfacing plight, and when finally cursed, gives him repentance and gifts in return.

Maybe we all have a number of guesses as to why God does such things and begin to worry about his handling of matters.

But he’s God.

And as sappy and religious-like as this may sound, I intend to put every belief and faith into Him, never questioning Him or what he does, because in the end, He is the one who one-handedly amounts to being the unsurpassed, paramount being ever.

Show Me How to Suffer

Job is suffering.

And for what?

A test? A random act of cruel punishment? A diversion to see the faltering end? A game in which the Devil plays with the pawn that is Job?

Throughout Job, up until what I have read recently which makes its way up to chapter 37, I have yet to see anything different come up except Job suffering up to part of the Devil’s schemes.

Yes, God let the Devil issue unfortunate doings to Job’s life, just so he could prove that Job was holy, feared Him, and would never curse Him.

You’d think after everything else He has let the Devil put him through, and yet failed to see a hateful word towards God come out of Job’s mouth, God would cease the Devil from practically torturing Job until he sees death as the ultimate haven.

But that has not happened.

Job is still suffering, pining for a reason why God would amount him such evil doings, and the pain does not end.

I wonder.

Why does God test people if he knows what’s going to happen?

He has this psychic ability (of all the abilities the Almighty God acquires) and why seek to send people through ruin, knowing they will surpass it and end up honoring you either way?

Isn’t knowing that enough to have you refrain from drenching them in earth-shattering pain and agony?

Job never cursed him:

“As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice,
The almighty, who has made me taste bitterness in my soul,
As long as I have life within me, the breath of God
in my nostrils,
my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue
will utter no deceit.”

Never, does he curse him. And yet he swallows in anguish.

Frogs Stampeding and Babies Killed

I always knew about Moses and the sea. Having it be stated and known throughout the world, no matter whether you believe in it or not, I knew about it. What I did not know, in terms of explaining my lower-than-low ignorance, was the actual detailed story behind it.

Sure, I knew he was escaping from the Egyptians, but I had yet to figure out the reason was because they were being held as sort-of slaves, and no matter what Moses did -----having his staff become a snake, turning river-water into blood, unleashing a stampede of frogs to clog all living head-quarters, have darkness impede the all-guiding light, and killing all the Egyptian first-born babies. You know, the usual---- the stubborn Pharaoh never let them “go sacrifice for the Lord for three days,” no matter how many times he said he would; he would always go back on his word.

I also never quite had the story defined for the existence of the curren jewish holiday ‘Passover’ (which I know has to do with eating food, or not eating food. Beat me). That is, until know. I am guessing now it still has to do with Unleavened bread, considering it was when the Lord was to kill every firstborn Egyptian baby, and painting their wooden doors with sheep’s blood (gross) in order for the Lord to know to “Pass over” their houses. I felt so excited knowing I had learned something new today.

But there are some things that took me awhile to figure out. AS in why in the world the Lord kept making the Pharaoh’s heart cold in order for him to refuse the Israelites from going to the dessert to sacrifice for Him. It’s like, “why do you want problems, God?! Can’t you make the guy have a warm heart and let them go so this can end peacefully?” Apparently, he is not too big on ‘peacefully.’

But then, I found out the answer to my question. In Exodus 14:4, the Lord says, “And I will harden the pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them. But I will gain glory for myself through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.”

It turns out, the reason he did all these things was to have a reason to build up some proof so that the Israelites could truly, with all their heart, have no doubt that he was the Lord, the Almighty, powerful one, as it says so in 14:31:

“And when the Israelites saw the great power the Lord displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant.”

I noticed that in this quote, and probably before as well, the ‘he’ is not capitalized when they are referring to the Lord. Is it because it’s the more human form instead of the God form?

Then comes the battle between the Israelites and the Amalekites (cool name, by the way) in which whenever Moses has lifts his hands, the Israelites are winning, but when he gets tired and puts them back down, the Amalekites start to win.

That’s when Moses says:

“For hands were lifted up to the throne of the Lord. The Lord will be at war completely against the Amalekites from generation to generation.”

I wonder if that’s why when you worship at church, most people put their hands up. And no, this is not an ignorant question, considering I go to church myself and just see that done when you are truly into it and are up-taken to worship him with all your being. Lifting our hands just works like that, in church reference.

But I wonder if maybe when you do that, it is sort of an invitation and the pass to have the Lord with you at all times, battling out everything with you, helping you throughout the way.

In the sense that, by raising your hands, you’re accepting him, and in return, he is there to help you and guide you at all costs.

Deep, huh?

Finally, in chapter 22 it goes to list The Ten Commandments. For your information, it includes not stealing.

So, people who are participating in the occasional five-finger discount in your local mall in normal stores just because you’re too lazy to take out your plenty-filled wallet out in, you are deceiving God!

Just saying.

Suffering Misery and Bitter Souls

I never knew the bible could be so poetic. Seriously, the words, and how they are strewn together in Job are incredibly astounding.

Okay, so first and foremost, the whole reason for this chapter is for God to prove the righteousness of Job, and therefore the Devil (being his evil little self) decides to in a way, ruin Job’s life to prove to God that Job would curse Him given the circumstances.

Up until chapter 10, after having his cattle disappear, as well as his children, and getting an awful skin disease, Job still has yet to ‘curse’ God. Sure, he gets overly pissed and rants about how he does not deserve this, but not once does he get truly mad at the Lord.

Job 3:20

“Why is light given to those in misery,
and life to the bitter soul,
to those who long for death that does not come
who search for it more than a hidden treasure,
who are filled with gladness and rejoice
when they reach the grave?”

Deep, or what? Right now, as you can see, he is in an obvious state depression and a mind-set that questions life in bitterness. This is sort of like the regular question of why some people are happy and other are not in life, as well as the question of our existence if we’re going to spend most of it hoping for the day it will end.

Another one I liked was Job 4:5, where Eliphaz says, “But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed.”

This is basically like the lesson in life of getting back up when you fall down. It is true that in life, whenever we fail at something, or don’t do things like we are ‘supposed’ to or how we want them to do and excel, we always feel down and burden ourselves enough so that we don’t try again. We get discouraged by any single mistake that ends up deciding our path, something that we should not let happen.

Finally, a quote by Job that just kept me gasping at the pure profoundnesss of it and relative comparison, was Job 10:8 :

“Your hands shaped me and made me,
Will you now turn and destroy me?
Remember that you molded me like clay.
Will you now turn me into dust again?

This demonstrates the description of being built, only to be torn down again, piece by piece, which is how Job feels right now.

“Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle
me like cheese,
Clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews?”

I just loved the description of this one, the flesh clothing the body and constructed with a puzzle of joined bones?

Genius.

I have come to find, that besides just being a religious text focused on telling the story and portraying beliefs, the Bible is also an amazing collection of awesome literary art.

I wish I talked like that.

Of Disgusting Means and Sacrifices

A note to men: If you are not circumcised, be prepared to be personally isolated from your people. I kid you not. That is, if you live thousands of years ago when Abraham still lives. In modern times, well, all I can say is this law doesn’t appeal to you. Or does it? Just to be safe, cut it off!

Sorry for the imagery. Ouch.

It turns out, Yes, God did make a covenant with Abram (Now called Abraham) that depended on his descendants’ circumcision.

Well.

Two men go to Abraham's house with the Lord, and tell Abraham that he will indeed have a son, no matter how old he is.

The same two then go to Lot in Sodom and when the go, the people from Sodom ask Lot if they can have sex with the two men----I keep wondering if he people who ask are, in fact, men, and if was normal for men to ‘do it’ back then. Hmm.---- and he says no. Right then I’m starting to think that maybe Lot is not so bad after all.

That is, until he opens his big mouth and says, “Look, I have two daughters that have never slept with a man. Let me bring them to you and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.” So his daughters, having lived with him all his life, are not under the so-called ‘protection’ of his roof? What a little scheming, disgusting SOB.

But the horny, gay guys don’t want to listen to him, and reach out in an effort to, I don’t know, kill him? But the two men inside hold him back, and make the people blind so they can’t reach the door. They tell Lot to run away with his daughters and wife because the Lord is going to burn the city.

So Lot and his daughters escaped for Zoar. I don’t understand why the Lord saved him, considering he is such an annoying human being who would give away his daughters to whoever pleases. Geesh. Probably because of his relation to Abraham, which I never quite understood what it was.

Lot and his daughters are hiding in a cave, and the daughters, for reasons unknown to me, decide that since there are no men to lay with and keep the family line, they will get their dad drunk and each one lay with him one night so they can reproduce. A lovely goal with extremely far-fetched, disgusting means. Incest, much?

Now Abraham and Sarah have the son God promised them, so they get rid of Ishmael and Hagar, who leave and God gives them water to survive.

One day, God tells Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, in a sort of test to see if Abraham truly feared God the way he should. When Abraham went to do the deed with no hesitation, the Lord called him from heaven to stop, seeing that Abraham did fear him, and stopped him from killing Isaac.

Because he showed his loyalty to the lord, He decided to bless Abraham always and told him his descendents will take possession of cities.

Sarah died one day, leaving Abraham to pine in her absence, as well as Isaac. When Abraham was getting old, he told his servant he wanted a wife for his son, but that she had to be from his native land, and Isaac could not go there. He said it was very important for him to bring back a wife for Isaac or else he would be realeased from the oath he made with the Lord.

So the servant went, an found a helpful girl named Rebekah, whom he later took back to willingly marry Isaac.

Now, whoever said arranged marriages were total contradicters of free will didn’t know beautiful people like Rebekah or Isaac.


So maybe this would be a happy ending. But this is not the end, is it?

Anymore Complicated and We'd Be Doomed

There are a lot of fathers of sons, whose names seem like a puzzle to me considering the names themselves are so weird, and the order in which they are related are beyond me. All I know is that Noah’s sons have clans. That’s all I got.

Once upon a time, everyone in the world spoke the same language, which would obviously make everything all the much easier in the long run. When they decided to build a city, the Lord came down to see them, and saw that it was all too easy for them speaking the same language, understanding each other. So he decided to mix things up by giving each one a different language and having none understand each other.

The Lord scattered them throughout the world. They had stopped building the city since then, and it was called Babel, because of the means with which it was started.

I really don’t understand why he did that. What is so wrong about having it easy?

One day, the Lord calls on Abram, son of whoever and whoever, and tells him:

“I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you.”

So Abram took his possessions and his kids and set out for the city of Canaan. God knows why the Lord decided to bless him with that reward.

I mean, I didn’t see him do any good deeds, so why should he randomly get chosen to start a great nation? Seriously.

Another thing I don’t understand is why the Egyptians would kill Abram of they new the beautiful woman was his wife and not his sister. Hints, anyone?

It turns out the Pharaoh then took her as his wife and because of the, the Lord inflicted serious diseases on the Pharaoh and his people.

How could Abram even put up with another man having his wife as his own wife? Did he not get jealous?

Abram’s wife could not get pregnant. And the Lord said he needed an heir of his own flesh and blood, so Sarai gave Abram her maidservant, Hagar, to lay with him and have his son. But of course Hagar had bitter feelings towards Sarai for what she made her do, and Sarai started treating her so harshly, that Hagar, pregnant, left.

That’s when an angle told Hagar to submit to Sarai, and because of that, Hagar’s descendents would increase.

The son was born, and Abram called him Ishmael. Ring a bell, anyone?

So a man is told he will rule a certain place, he says his wife is his sister, has a Paroah take her as his wife, sleeps with his wife’s maidservant, and has a son. Yes, that is very, very normal.

The Sistine Chapel and Other Gayness Enforcers

I try so hard to make it go away
But my attraction to men I know will never fade
I know I am weird, my mom makes that clear
And so do the guys on the streets, who keep calling me queer

I reach out to you
But you’re slipping from my grasp
I know you make me drool
But do I make you gasp?

I am attracted to you
You gorgeous piece of man meat
I swear I will not attack you
Unless you keep running away from me

I would not be scared
If anything, I would be ecstatic
If a man like me showed me he cared
Instead of getting weird and acting so damn spastic

I’ll make you love me
Even if it means me floating on a cloud in my birthday suit to display
And you’ll reach out to hold me
Because I really don’t care that you’re not gay.

Rainbows with Meanings

Adam and Eve had two children, Cain and Abel. Cain was very appreciated by God and Abel grew jealous and killed him. (There’s a book by Jeffrey Archer titled “Kane and Abel” and it is about a rivalry between two men. My point is, it’s awesome, read it.)

God tells Cain, “If you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master,” before Cain kills his brother, obviously not having understood that particular lesson.

He is punished by having to restlessly wonder the earth and having the crops not yield to him. But he would not be killed, because whoever would end up killing Cain, would suffer vengeance.

Then the text goes on to point out basically how Cain got a wife and reproduced, and the chain went on and on. The same went for Seth, Adam and Eve’s other soon which they saw as a replacement of Abel.

After men had reproduced a lot and began to increase in number, the Lord saw how “the great man’s wickedness had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.”

So he decided to do the only thing that would make all the evilness go away.

He decided to wipe them all away, the men, the animals, etc.

Except one.

Noah was a righteous man, descendent of Seth, and “he walked with God.” The Lord told him about his plan, and made him make an arc out of wood, taking only his wife, his sons, his sons’ wives, and a female and male of every living creature with him, to reproduce later on when a flood had killed the rest of existence.

I turns out, maybe being good, and having important people like will end up saving you. I’m just saying.

In the six-hundredth day of Noah’s life, the flood came pouring in, him safe in the deep confines of the arc, protected.

When he sets food on ground, the Lord promise He will never again wipe out Earth, and makes a covenant with Noah. He tells him to reproduce and thrive, and the every cloudy day when there’s a rainbow, He will remember the covenant between Him and Noah, and all the other creatures.

I will never look at a rainbow the same way.

Sexism Has A Source

Everyone’s heard the story of Adam and Eve. There’s a serpent, and it tells the Eve to eat from that tree. Eve is stupid, and therefore eats from the tree God specifically told her not to eat out of. Adam follows suit, and soon they are left in only their skin to protect them (In clearer terms, naked).

God decides to show his more human side in Genesis 3, demonstrating pure emotions when he quite literally gets pissed at both Adam and Eve for deceiving him. Here we see a different “God,” referred to as “Lord God,” being in human form and being the Lord that rules, and such things.

When he finds out about what they have done, God tells the serpent:

“Curse are you above all livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of our life. And I will put enmity between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head and you will strike his heel.”

So it turns out snakes, or rather serpents, weren’t always the slithering little scary creatures we are used to seeing in everyday life. Actually, there was a time when there was a smart, talking, walking, interactive one who so happened to do a bad dead and ended up crawling on its stomach for all eternity.

Yes. God indeed has power.

That same day, He also made so that childbearing is painful, work is to be done I order to get food, and husbands shall rule over their wives.

What is it with these sexist conditions? If God is neither a man or a woman, why should he make it so that it seems as if he favors man and views women in a low light?

And why did he make childbearing painful? Just to make us women’s lives that much harder, considering we have to have awful cramps, suffer through childbearing, raise a child, and be a house mother while we are also encouraged to work and make a living?

All the while men don’t have to shave in order to look attractive, and all they have to do is work and get money and then that deal is made.

Now, I am still not awaiting the time when I have to have my own child, however far from now that may be (and I’m hoping it’s a while).

I have come to one conclusion (or merely something I have figured since my early existence) which is: Men are a lazy, arrogant, laid-back specimen whose only problem in life is money, while women are meant to suffer, forever.

Time According to Who?

We all have our theories as to how this world was created, whether it be the scientific theory that it happened when two huge masses seemingly crashed into each other, or the notion that God, in all his divine glory created it with his own magnificence. Either way, Earth exists, we are here, and life is a huge webs of splendor and problems all at once.
“In the beginnings, God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1.

Yes, this is truly marked up to one’s beliefs, but disregarding that fact, everyone should at least have a bit of knowledge about the Bible, either in agreement or not.

Genesis basically means the beginning, which clearly captures the true meaning of the first book of the Bible. This is when earth, in all its true form, was made by God:

In the time span of only seven days, God managed to divide the heavens and the earth, the light and the darkness, divide the sea into one entity, created sea and land animals, and man himself.

Seven days. The time-span in which He could amount to all of these things astounds me, and yet it makes me wonder.

We all know dinosaurs existed. No, this is not completely random, and yes, I do have a point.

Anyhow, the Bible says that in seven days God made animals, everything else, and man. So what about the dinosaurs? They obviously existed before humans, as it is known, but if it was in the time span of seven days, does that mean man and dinosaurs once co-existed?

And if yes, then man should have been extinct when the dinosaurs themselves were exterminated, and what, God created them again?

I think not.


The bible never talks about dinosaurs (and why would it?) so it would seem as if from the beginning of the world’s creation man existed, and so, what about the dinosaurs?

This may sound utterly unstable and it sounds pathetic even to my own ears, but still, my argument is of some value. I swear.

What I’m thinking is, what if it wasn’t really seven days? Seven days for us, I mean. We, humans, tend to view a day as a period of twenty-four hours consisting of night and day.

But for God, in His immortal, long-lasting existence, He might have a different understanding towards the phrase “seven days.” To Him, for all we know, one day could be five hundred years or such, I don’t know.

So God said, "Let there be animals," on the sixth day. On a sixth day to him. So let's say the sixth day happened, and then another five-thousand years happened (in this case, five-thousand makes up the 'God' 'year') and then man (Adam) was made.

Ever thought about that?



So what might have started as a stupid-sounding question about dinosaurs not being in the Bible, might have ended with a very deep conclusion, if I do say so myself. (Insert mocking snorts here).

Those two first chapters taking up two pages don’t talk about what happened in so little time. They are worded in a way that we would think so and take the meaning of ‘seven’ literally in measurements we can only understand. But what we don’t know is that this is based on God’s view, his basic understanding of it all, which we can’t help but try to see his way.

I just managed to find a total different meaning to the expression ‘twenty-four/seven.’ Yes. I am proud of myself too.


oh! And
PS: "She shall be called "woman" for she was taken out of man". Seriously? Just because a child comes from out of their mom's stomache, that does not make it fit to name them "Child". Are you freaking kidding me? So now we know the reason towards the chauvinistic, sexist views in further history and in the present. It all started with certain little nasty named Adam. That pig.

Vanity and Other Atrocious Qualities

We are an intricate race.

Ha!

Makes you feel special, doesn’t it?

By intricate, though, I mean that we, humans, can at times be ignorant, selfish, greedy, self-righteous pigs, with no sense whatsoever for anything, or anyone, else around us.

Yes. For those of you who think you’re perfect, you’re not.

It seems Zeus and his son Hermes weren’t that sure of this fact, though, considering they took their time to disguise themselves as beggars, fall from the heavens into this mud-mass we call Earth, and see what people where really like.

It seems they wanted to see the negative aspects of our beings since they came as beggars. What did they expect?

After knocking on a few (and by few I mean hundreds) doors and having them shut in their faces when asking for a hint of money, you’d think they give up.

But giving it one last try, they knock on a little hut on the outskirts of town, where they come upon Baucis and Philemon (How the writer comes up with these names, I don’t know).

The first words out of Baucis’s mouth are, “Poor Strangers!”

Finally, someone with a heart.

When they let Zeus and Hermes in, they are asked, “Do you know us?”

And Philemon replies with the obvious, “Yes. Why, you are the children of God.”

Aww.

Bascially, Philemon and Baucis are the epitome of hospitable hosts, providing food, insisting their guests sit on chairs, offering desert, etc.

When they poured wine, and Zeus and Hermes’s glasses remained full, they knew.

Is it just me or is that completely out of nowhere? I don’t get it. When they poured the wine, the glasses didn’t overflow when they put more? So, the phrase of how their cups were filled is beyond my line of comprehension. And how in the world does a cup being filled mean that whoever’s cup it is, is actually a god? Please, insight me.

Because of the grace with which they were accepted and cared for, Zeus and Hermes used their abilities to make Philemon and Baucis’s “poor little house become grander and grander” and have marble paved stones sprout were there was humble ground.

Hermes tells them they can ask anything of them, and the couple asks that they die at the same time. I never would have thought of that, but it is actually a pretty intelligent wish.

Imagine the person you love and care for dies and you have to live weeping with grief from that awful loss, or have them suffer and bare the experience they go through because of you. Very smart, indeed.

Their wish is granted and they start to sprout leaves and end up turned into trees.

Huh?

You want to die together and so you are turned into a freaking tree?

That makes total sense.

Well, maybe there’s an underlying meaning to it, but whatever it signifies beats me.

As for another possible teaching, if there is one, I think it means that, we may not be perfect, but that shouldn’t stop us from trying our hardest to be good people. And doing good acts and having clean, healthy goodwill will be rewarded.

So, even if you might get turned into a tree, at least it was for good reason.

A Good Heart = Trees.

We are an intricate race.

Ha!

Makes you feel special, doesn’t it?

By intricate, though, I mean that we, humans, can at times be ignorant, selfish, greedy, self-righteous pigs, with no sense whatsoever for anything, or anyone, else around us.

Yes. For those of you who think you’re perfect, you’re not.

It seems Zeus and his son Hermes weren’t that sure of this fact, though, considering they took their time to disguise themselves as beggars, fall from the heavens into this mud-mass we call Earth, and see what people where really like.

It seems they wanted to see the negative aspects of our beings since they came as beggars. What did they expect?

After knocking on a few (and by few I mean hundreds) doors and having them shut in their faces when asking for a hint of money, you’d think they give up.

But giving it one last try, they knock on a little hut on the outskirts of town, where they come upon Baucis and Philemon (How the writer comes up with these names, I don’t know).

The first words out of Baucis’s mouth are, “Poor Strangers!”

Finally, someone with a heart.

When they let Zeus and Hermes in, they are asked, “Do you know us?”

And Philemon replies with the obvious, “Yes. Why, you are the children of God.”

Aww.

Bascially, Philemon and Baucis are the epitome of hospitable hosts, providing food, insisting their guests sit on chairs, offering desert, etc.

When they poured wine, and Zeus and Hermes’s glasses remained full, they knew.

Is it just me or is that completely out of nowhere? I don’t get it. When they poured the wine, the glasses didn’t overflow when they put more? So, the phrase of how their cups were filled is beyond my line of comprehension. And how in the world does a cup being filled mean that whoever’s cup it is, is actually a god? Please, insight me.

Because of the grace with which they were accepted and cared for, Zeus and Hermes used their abilities to make Philemon and Baucis’s “poor little house become grander and grander” and have marble paved stones sprout were there was humble ground.

Hermes tells them they can ask anything of them, and the couple asks that they die at the same time. I never would have thought of that, but it is actually a pretty intelligent wish.

Imagine the person you love and care for dies and you have to live weeping with grief from that awful loss, or have them suffer and bare the experience they go through because of you. Very smart, indeed.

Their wish is granted and they start to sprout leaves and end up turned into trees.

Huh?

You want to die together and so you are turned into a freaking tree?

That makes total sense.

Well, maybe there’s an underlying meaning to it, but whatever it signifies beats me.

As for another possible teaching, if there is one, I think it means that, we may not be perfect, but that shouldn’t stop us from trying our hardest to be good people. And doing good acts and having clean, healthy goodwill will be rewarded.

So, even if you might get turned into a tree, at least it was for good reason.