Bible Club: Genesis

madnak · #1 01-03-2007, 01:25 AM

So. This is a fun book. It doesn't bother me, partly because it's just so far out there I'm predisposed to read it as just a story. And a lot of the famous Bible stories are in here. Cain and Abel, Noah, Sodom and Gomorrah, Esau and Jacob, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Next week is Exodus.

BluffTHIS! · #2 01-03-2007, 01:31 AM

It's even more fun in latin.

goodsamaritan · #3 01-03-2007, 01:32 AM

I bet Eve was a demon in the sack

hmkpoker · #4 01-03-2007, 01:39 AM

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3 Dixitque Deus: “Fiat lux”. Et facta est lux.

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AC HIJACK

God is a jackbooted thug who wanted to coerce creation into his illegitimate monopoly on light. We atheists should abolish light altogether, and go back to the gold standard.

CallMeIshmael · #5 01-03-2007, 02:51 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_EXq...ed&search=

This is Ricky Gervais' standup routine on Genesis... I really liked it

FortunaMaximus · #6 01-03-2007, 03:41 AM

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It's even more fun in latin.

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Not particularly. But nice link.

MaxWeiss · #7 01-03-2007, 04:05 AM

I'm a bad christian. I didn't read it yet. Sorry. Will contribute more when I do. I thought that it wasn't a story though; this is the word of god, right???

madnak · #8 01-05-2007, 01:46 AM

Exodus is too long. We'll do it on the 16th instead of the 9th. I'm making the cutoff 30 chapters, any book longer than that will get extra time. Isaiah and Psalms will be three and five weeks respectively.

vhawk01 · #9 01-05-2007, 02:14 AM

I enjoy Genesis a lot. For all the times I've heard you, and others, talk about how we owe it to literature to read the Bible, Genesis is really where its at. Genesis is the "Aesop's Fables" of Christianity. All of the great stories that we all know, all of the fantastic imagery. I understand Genesis is often passed off as part of the historical section of the Bible, but I don't understand the insistence. If you simply grant that nothing in Genesis is literal, its really pretty enthralling. I mean, it paints God in a pretty bad light, but so does the entire OT. This is where movie scripts come from.

madnak · #10 01-05-2007, 02:19 AM

There's definitely some fun stuff. I like how many times the story of "she's not my wife, she's my sister!" is repeated. And it gets deliciously political, and there are some things that are really shocking but just get passed right over.