Will You React With Prejudice? (page 4)

LittleToe

JamJW:They would normally come out with it being the direct line of legal descent, and attempt to demonstrate that he was Joseph's child by adoption.

It does raise the question of whether the sin and death, that the bible speaks of, is a physical thing that is carried in the genes or spiritual. Only by taking the latter view do you avoid the implicatiuons that you raise. Unfortunately it then raises the question of where the spiritual part normally comes from.

Either way, it's an interesting story that has teased philosophers for millenia.

Tex:

Daniel:I once kept a lad on "Use of Outline" for over six talks, just so he could get it sorted. The cong were apoplectic every time I told him to work on it

sspo

welcome

bjc2read

One Perspective On The Book of GenesisAdam and Eve in the Garden of Eden . . . Noah and the Flood . . . God's call to Abraham . . . Jacob wrestling with the angel . . . Joseph in exile in Egypt. The stories found in the Book of Genesis captured our ancestors' imaginations more than three thousand years ago--and they hold us today. What explains their power and endurance?

For one thing, to millions of people they are more than stories, they are sacred texts, sanctified over time by so many communities of faith that they resonate with a power and knowledge beyond our own.

They also challenge. These stories do not all have happy endings. They offer no easy answers to hard questions. They can leave us puzzled, forcing us to confront our own quandaries without pat solutions. Reading the story of Noah and the Flood, I am haunted by the ordeal of the survivor. I find Noah after the Flood both mystifying and troubling: God had spared him because he was a man "righteous in his generation," but he hardly behaves the way we'd expect a model of righteousness to behave. His story is full of contradictions and divine mystery--just like most of the stories in Genesis, just like our own.

But these stories also speak to us today because they are so starkly human. The people in Genesis rage at one another and at God; they struggle with temptation; they are jealous, grief-stricken, patient, conniving, loving, and hateful. And the dilemmas they face are ours: sibling rivalry and family violence; infertility and surrogate parenting; parents who play favorites; husbands who fail their wives; parents who grow old and frail and children who are coming of age. Because their emotions and struggles are so real, the people of Genesis come to life in every generation, and their stories live on.

Furthermore, because the action can spill across generations, the resulting space in the stories gives us room to read ourselves into them. We begin to connect to past generations and to better understand our lives and our relationships, to one another and to the Creator...

Bill Moyer Partial Quote: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/genesis/article1.html

jgnat

elatwra:

We can conclude that the sin is passed from the seed of the men. Bad, bad men with seeds

LOL!

katiekitten

Welcome Jamaican. I thought you were argueing against the JW line, did I get it wrong?

A resume would help me cos im not as clever as Littletoe (or as mean - SIX TALKS??? You nasty elder, didnt you know it was only a game where you progressed seamlessly from W to I to G?)

A Paduan

have now all of a sudden been caught and exposed

in your own mind?

M any have always seen how ugly it is on first sight - at the door they say things like, "No thanks".

Will You React With Prejudice?