April 14, 2018 - Day 6 - Genesis 6

Genesis 6:

This one opens up with a sexist doozy!

“When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.”

LOL

Patriarchy at its finest.  Sorry ladies, your freedom of choice didn’t exist.  Do remember this was as far away from today as today is from the year 5500.

God tells us next that humans are mortal and their days will be 120 years.  Well, we have actual record of people living over 120, though most of us don’t make it that far.  I assume the author placed this here to try and make sense of our mortality.

We are then told that the Nephilim were on the earth in those days.  Yep.  Giants.  Eli Manning roamed the planet long ago.

Our story takes a dark turn.  The Lord sees that humans are assholes, has an overwhelming sense of regret, and decides to wipe us out; though God had his eyes on Noah.  I guess even the creator of the universe has favorites!

And oh buddy what a favorite he was.  God calls up Noah on the red phone (like the phone between Commissioner Gordon and Batman) to give him a heads up about the coming flood.  Along with this insider info, God also gives Noah the blueprints to a sweet boat.

God tells Noah to grab two of every living creature on earth and load them up.  This must be a big ass boat.

Clearly this is not an actual retelling of events, as it’s absurd; but what can we learn here?  Where is the divine wisdom?

I think we have an author trying to make sense of a troubled world.  What if we could just start over?

How often do we think, “well if we just get rid of this group of people, then everything will be fine.”

Loving a broken world back to life is much, much more difficult.  Ultimately, I believe our job is precisely that. 

I see some contemporary relevance here.


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