Written in Genesis.
“I will take nothing but what the young men have eaten and the share of the men who went with me…”
I’m counting this as a list post, mostly because I have something good to share. Pastor Paul Drees is a Lutheran paster who has a strong following on TikTok, and he’s quite the antidote to the over-aggressive style of Christianity I see a lot on there.
Written in Genesis.
Is not the whole land before you?
— Genesis 13:9.
This is much more my speed, compared to the last chapter. Abram’s embrace of God and his giving of the land to Lot is the kind of wisdom I expected to get the first time I opened the Bible. I feel so much more at home in this chapter than I did before.
Written in Genesis.
the Egyptians… will kill me, but they will let you live.
I’ve had a lot of revelatory moments in the past eleven chapters, but this is the first point in the Bible where I’m just kind of… lost. Perhaps it’s missiing context or it’s my failure to understand the writing, but the story of Abram entering Egypt is kind of an anticlimax.
Written in Genesis.
“Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
— Genesis 11:7.
Before I read the Bible I would have sworn the story of Babel took up a hundred pages, but here it is in only one paragraph. I’m amazed at the Bible’s ability to condense time and space, but I constantly long for further detail. Every verse demands elaboration.
Written in Genesis.
These are the descendants of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth…
— Genesis 10:1.
It’s another list chapter, which means I get to link to another one of my favourite people on the internet. This time it’s Heliocentric, a YouTuber who is absolutely not a Christian but who I find embodies our virtues much better than most.