Motherly Instinct?

As I have continued my readings and discoveries of the Bible, many more topics have come in my interest. Continuing the Genesis Sarah and Abraham pass. Sarah first, and Abraham doesn’t fail to find a new companion after the grief of her death. Anyways the main topic of this part of the story is actually their son, Isaac. Isaac now has kids with his wife Rebekah. The part that interested me the most though was actually the story of Isaac and Rebekah.

It all started when Abraham sent his servant out to find a wife for his son, “And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.” Genesis 24:14

The servant knew almost from the first glance at Rebekah that she was the one. Isaac and Rebekah had an arranged marriage but they still fell deep in love.

The next part comes with children. Esau and Jacob were their children. The rivalry between the two began when Isaac would choose Jacob over Esau. And Rebekah would prefer Esau and always give him advantages. This part reminds me very mucho of my relationship with my parents. My father tends to take my side during fights and my mom takes my brothers side. This also has to do with the fact that my mother was the youngest of four, so naturally, she feels for the younger child. This is interesting because here the mother also favors the younger child; I’m beginning to think it isn’t only my mother’s memories but also natural instinct to protect the younger obnoxious one.

Until Now

I have decided this post will be dedicated to chapters 1-21 in the book of Genesis. The main stories I have looked at are Creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah, and now I am finishing the story of Abraham. At chapter 21 the story of Abraham cuts off when Isaac is about to be born. Abraham has waited very long for his son and may finally have one with his wife. Their first son, Ishmael, was interestingly conceived by Abraham himself and Sarah’s maid. Their second son, Isaac, was a miracle from God on the condition that everyone must be circumcised. From the previous post I think I have clearly explained the story of Abraham and Isaac. The story of Abraham until chapter twenty one leaves you with the birth of Isaac. I wonder how Ishmael must feel when the real son Isaac is born. Sara seems to not like him from the time her maid conceived, “And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.” Geneses 16:4.

Adam and Eve was very interesting because you could get so many perspectives out of one story. This we realized when we read the “Ladies And Gentlemen, The Bible” book. I think each of us was able to catch a different interpretation of the story, which to me was very interesting.

Cain and Abel sort of reminded me of Zeus and Hades. One of the brothers becomes good and the other evil. Except for in Greek mythology Zeus doesn’t get killed. There are so many parallels to other beliefs its really cool to see them after studying them year after year.

For the story of Noah I also made a humorous change in the dialogue. I imagine the story a little more like this:

God: Noah I’m tired of humans all they do is talk to me all ay as if I was their friend, like I have the time for that…

Noah: Ah I see, I am the only perfect one, I know how you feel, you can’t help it if I’m the only gorgeous one

God: I’m going to destroy the human race, I can’t believe I created morons in the first place.

Noah: Can I stay and reproduce a gorgeous race? Or will you just convert me to I higher sort of Godly status?

God: Ok well maybe I should let a couple humans stay, and maybe the animals. I don’t want to have to redo everything.

Noah: how are you going to o it then? We’ll need to make a brainstorm.

God: No, I’ll just flood your asses out.

Noah: Sweet.

God: Ok so Noah get two of every animal an bring your wife and kids with their spouses, build a ship and just don’t bother me for about 40 days, and you should be ok

Noah: Do I really need to build a ship?

God: Look dude I could really care less if your drown, so just take my advice

Noah: Ok ok, I’ ill build one.

20 days later…

Noah: God! God! Come on put the power back on! I need to get onto Facebook! My wife is trying to divorce me on my wall!

God: I should have killed them all…

Really Dad?

Reading into the next chapters of the Genesis the story of Abram, later known as Abraham, continues. These chapters I believe brought out Gods sense of humor. I can just imagine the look on, now Abrahams, face when God told him he had to be circumcised. If when I say it to my friends their faces go pail, and that’s just playing around, I can only imagine how Abraham must have really reacted. In the Bible he actually seems quite calm about it. I wonder why God really wanted him, and his future offspring to do this. This is when I came to the conclusion of: God has a sense of humor.

There is also another part which is pretty interesting to me which is when Abraham tries to kill his son (with Sarai, now Sarah) he waited so long to have. Now Abraham seems kind of calm when God tells him to do this, am I wrong?, “And Abraham rose up early and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him” Genesis 22:3, mind you God has just told him to kill his son. Abraham makes it seem like he’s off for a morning walk. We pretty much all know the rest of the story. Abraham almost kills his son when, voila an angel stops him. Now instead of looking at this from Abraham’s point of view, let’s look at it from the sons. Would you seriously go into the same room with your father again? I mean he tried to kill the kid. He tricked him. I imagine the conversation going a little like this:

Abraham: Hey Isaac do you want to go on a walk?

Isaac: Sure dad! We haven’t spent too much quality time together in a while.

Abraham: Alright then we are going to make a sacrifice.

Isaac: sweet.

*10 hours later*

Isaac: Hey dad are we there yet?

Abraham: No!

Isaac: Hey dad are we there yet?

Abraham: No!

Isaac: Hey dad are we there yet?

Abraham: No!

Isaac: What about now?

Abraham: No! Stop asking!

Isaac: Ok… 99 bottles of beer on the wall 99 bottles of beer, take one down pass it around...

Abraham: Shut up!

Isaac: Ok new song. I know a song that gets on everybody’s nerves, everybody’s nerves, and this is how it goes! Tun tun tun.

Abraham: O Lord it is no use…

*Getting close to the top of the mountain*

Abraham: Almost there.

Isaac: Hey. Wait. Dad. Where is the sheep to sacrifice?

Abraham: You will see it will be a surprise; God will have one waiting for us.

Isaac: Ok…

*10 minutes later Isaac is tied up and Abraham is preparing the knife. *

Isaac: Hey dad this game is actually pretty fun, but do I really need to be tied up and blind folded?

*Just as Abraham is about to kill his son, the angel appears*

Angel: Stop! Stop! You’ve proven yourself!

*Isaac removes blind fold*

Isaac: What?! Are you serious!

Abraham: Isaac! I can explain!

The rest of that conversation I really wouldn’t like to imagine, but I can’t lead myself to believe it went to well. Well to end this humorous story, Sarah dies in tragedy at the age of 127. Somebody ate her spinach.

Surrogate Bible Mothers?

So as I continue reading the one and only King James Version of The Bible I am discovering more and more references I have heard people say. I can see we are now beginning the story of Abraham and Sodom and Gomorrah. When my mom would drop me off at the boulevard at the beach I go to in Peru, there were lots of bars and clubs and kids walking around with vodka, every time she would repeat “Sodom and Gomorrah I don’t know why I still let you go”. So basically we have reached the story of Abram.  

At the beginning everyone spoke the same language and was pretty unified as Noah’s family. The generations began to multiply and God scattered them as he says here, “the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.” Ch.11 Text.9. This to me was very interesting because I have always had this curiosity about language and its beginnings. I know to take the bible in a more literal point of view and try to kind of find he meaning behind it. For example in this past quote the Lord scattered them may mean that they migrated and spread. This is kind of like the rib of Adam represents the equality of Eve.

There was also another part at the beginning of this that went somewhat like, “And Salah lived thirty years and begat Eber:”etc etc, Ch.11 Text.14, for about a whole chapter. I would make another chart but I think we all pretty much got the idea.

Another and my last point for the blog will be the theme of conception. Sarai couldn’t have a child so she told Abram to have a child with the servant. This to me was kind of funny, it’s like the servants a kind of surrogate mother. I can only imagine if my house keeper (Luz Marina, if you read my writing blog) were a surrogate mother, never mind bad thoughts, don’t think them.

I Love You Anyway

Sistine Chapel

Ill give you my hand

If you promise not to through me again in the sand

If what you want is a lad

Then you won’t be mad

But please stop bragging

Or I won’t stop nagging

Ill put on some clothes if that’s what you want

I got some last Christmas from my aunt

I know you don’t like my way of being

It is rather demeaning

But just know that I’m not leaving

With a man like you

Who does kung fu

And looks like Mick Jagger

How could I ever un fagger?

Against the bible it may be

But cant you see?

How could you deny this slagger?

I face my family

that looks at me as if I were unmanly

I just hope that one day

They will say

I love you anyway

The Land Before Time

We have theories, ideas, and faith to how our world began. Some say it started with a bang others say a wand was waved. In my journey through the first published book ever, it begins with its interpretation of the beginning of the world. It begins with god saying, and as he says it is done. The first day come heaven and earth the second seas, land, grass, plants, and trees. On the third day came the moon, sun, and stars. On the fourth the fish and birds, and fifth come land and animals. Lastly, on the fifth day came man. Then came a whole new story of Adam and Eve, two parts written by different people. It is fascinating to me this part of the story, “And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, because she was taken out of man” Ch.2 T.22. This may seem to a lot of women as an insult, they may think it is trying to express the man has more power than the woman, but that isn’t true. You have to look at this literally. The rib represents “side by side”, in other words it is trying to say that Lord God made an equal out of man. This to me was very interesting, it makes me pay more attention to the literal meaning of the text. There was however something that confused me and that was the small letters and numbers at the bottom of every text. I don’t know what they mean.

The next part I read was completely on Adam and Eve. I found a good metaphor or interpretation for this part, “For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil” Ch.3 T.5. Here they are talking about the tree of life and how you will lose your innocence if you eat from it. This reminded me so much of Pandora’s Box. It is the same thing only told in different beliefs. As the story goes on we get to a part that isn’t told in Veggie Tails. It begins with two different stories of the sons of Adam and Eve. The best version I made a chart out of. This is of the sons following the father.

Son Followed by Son	Lived Until (years)	Begotten
Adam	930	800
Seth	912	105
Enos	905	90
Cainan	910	70
Mahalaleel	895	65
Jared	962	62
Enoch	365	65
Methuselan	969	187
Lamech	777	782
Noah	950	500

They also had in this the story of Cain and Able. Cain kills Able, and from then on any one who slew another would have consequences. Now days the consequence if prison or life sentence. Another thing that came to mind was the quote always said at mass, “Begotten not made” does this mean be conceived and not made my God like Adam and Eve?

So the next part to my reading was the story of Noah. Noah dies in the end of chapter ten, not Veggie Tail material. It seemed so different and pleasant in Veggie Tails. In the kids story books they don’t tell you why there was a flood in the first place. The human race was very much out of control and that’s where it all began. God wanted to wipe out the human race and only leave the good part of the human race and animals to reproduce. After the destruction God promised never again to wipe out the human race. I guess this means no 2012, sorry to burst your bubble.  Between the stories in the bible the facts vary since each chapter was written by a different person. So far I am really enjoying the readings and appreciating them. I thought I would have a different experience reading this.

Burning The Sky

Pheaton:


On the sky he sails,
burning in dispair