Reading through 27- 34
After men and women ate the fruit of knowledge, and obtained the knowledge of good and evil, the world became more complex. The knowledge given to the humans is just like giving dynamite to a baby. They don’t know how to use it, but they have it. What it has produced is a world full of complex problems. For example in Genesis 27: 36, “And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?” Or in Genesis 29: 30-32:
“[30] And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
[31] And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
[32] And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.”
The complexity of the relationships between people, even caused the born of killers due to emotional reasons, as mentioned in Genesis 34: 25, “And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.”
Finally, due to the amount of mistakes and problems happening on Earth, the word “sin” has appeared in the bible for the first time in Chapter 31: 36, “And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?”
Thursday, April 15, 2010
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