tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30817870.post115389062452410644..comments2023-05-22T01:44:46.619-07:00Comments on Michael Reads the Bible: Gen 1-2: In the Beginning...Michael5000http://www.blogger.com/profile/10148584819327475239noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30817870.post-1154031840945545132006-07-27T13:24:00.000-07:002006-07-27T13:24:00.000-07:00OK, when I get I gave the green light to this proj...OK, when I get I gave the green light to this project I figured I'd be dragged into it. . . maybe the Bible as Literature class I never got to take in college. So I did read Genesis Ch. 1-6, and yes Charlie it's Ch. 5 with the jolly Methuseloid life spans. So far I'm kinda charmed by the breezily self-contradicting, accretive nature of it all. <BR/><BR/>The party line as I remember it from childhood at Southminister Presbyterian with regard to questions like "Did it really take God just seven days including naptime, and did people really live to be nine hundred and sixty-nine?" was something like, "Science tells HOW the world was created, but the Bible tells us WHY." Well, I certainly didn't get much WHY out of my rereading of Gen. 1-2, but maybe God will be more forthcoming in future conversations. <BR/><BR/>Here's the narrative run-down as I see it:<BR/><BR/>CHAPTER 1<BR/>God's Dayplanner<BR/><BR/>Day 1 Add light to dark<BR/>Day 2 Build heaven <BR/>Day 3 Expose land, make plants<BR/>Day 4 Make sun, moon, stars<BR/>Day 5 Sea and air creatures<BR/>Day 6 am land creatures, pm man, 6:30 pm dominion ceremony<BR/><BR/>(I'm especially taken with the idea of heaven as firmament, a structural element separating "the waters from the waters")<BR/><BR/>CHAPTER 2<BR/><BR/>Day 6 On Your own<BR/><BR/>(And then, inexplicably, the alternate version of events. . .) <BR/><BR/>God's To-do List <BR/><BR/>Earth and heavens<BR/>New guy<BR/>Garden & irrigation system<BR/>Show new guy around, tell him the one rule<BR/>Damn! Need Fit Helper for lonely new guy. Ideas: sea urchin, moose, bacteria, earthworm, penguin, tiger, pillbug, etc. If none of these work out, maybe try rib trick from last issue of Fine Worldbuilding?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30817870.post-1153933889923460592006-07-26T10:11:00.000-07:002006-07-26T10:11:00.000-07:00This is going to be interesting Michael, and I can...This is going to be interesting Michael, and I can relate to the beginnings of a long struggle (I've made it to Angola this summer while trying to do my international recipes.<BR/><BR/>I'm jumping ahead a bit, but when does everyone start living to 700 years old? And how in the world is that justified by bible literalists...chuckdaddy2000https://www.blogger.com/profile/13669075161175440366noreply@blogger.com