Like why did God just restart everything and delete Adam's line just to remake it with Noah? What was all that business with Babel about? Why did He even scatter them and their languages if He wants unity from all? Idk I'm 20 pages in and it's not hittin frAbram smiting sinners who took Lot and everything else was kind of fire tho
>>24944553God had commanded man to "be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it." Babel represents rebellion against this, as they wanted to stay in one place. >"And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.God judged them in a way that left them with no choice but to become spread throughout the earth. It was a judgment with mercy in it.
>>24944553scattering of babel also serves an IRL purpose of explaining to readers why so many other cultures/languages exist if they were all created by a single god
>>24944553Basically Man was just to be God's gardener, but God felt that Man was lonely, so he made him a companion in Woman. Then they discovered Sin and could no longer live with God in his Garden of Eden, so he cursed them to create and live life. Woman cursed to bear Life and be subservient and Man cursed to work and toil.
>>24944553The Bible is a historical account with dozens of authors saying the same thing about the same God. Who has been walking along side humanity since Adam. Freewill is dangerous but God has sons and daughters, children of the King are free indeed, not slaves(no will of their own).God has a relationship with us and seeks to cultivate deeper love and friendship. You’ll see this with examples like Enoch, Melchizedek, Jabez, Moses, Abraham. Asa, Josiah.What you see is the consequences of sin over the course of thousands of years, then redemption with the birth of Christ, the Son of God which shows what life looks like without sin, with His own freewill Jesus sacrifices himself to make atonement for our own sins, through his blood sacrifice our sins are washed away and destroy any enmity with God.We can cultivate the garden of eden now. We can be filled with God’s peace, joy and love, because of Jesus. Praise Him for good reason.
>>24944553The whole book is about how people coped with living in the desert.
>>24944553I wish someone had warned me before I started that a solid 1/3rd of the entire collection is just ancient Jews seething because they got BTFO by NebuCHADnezzar. I'm nearing the end of the prophets section of the Old Testament now and everything since Job has been a boring slog.
it's funny how evil jewish people are
