Phenomena of Nature

It's almost the end of Job's sorrowful story (although it ended in great happiness for Job, as he received a great many blessings for his loyalty) and so reading these last few chapters of Job, I again found more examples where God thinks he is the greatest of all beings. Whoopie.

But this makes this particular post all the more easier to write but also harder. If I wanted to, I could sum up this last few chapters with one sentence. The sentence being, "God thinks he's better than everyone else." But no. The hard part of this all is that I have to try and drag out the last chapters and somehow manage to write more than just a pharagraph of it all.

So yeah. Now I'm actually going to get into the actual story now.

So, as it happens, God starts talking to Job. About what exactly? Basically, God asks Job where he was when the "foundations of the earth were laid" (Job 38:4), when the "morning starts sang together, and "all the sons of God shouted for joy" (Job 38:7). The extraordinariness of nature showed the greatness of God and the weakness of man, or so He said.

God continued to explain that all would not be here without him and Job does not go against anything that He said to him.

Job accepts all this humbly and without complaint and still puts all his faith into the Lord. Because of this and everything else that Job has been put through (as a test I see in my eyes) without ever going against God or using his name in vain, Job is blessed greatly, and I must say, he deserves it.

Even though I've never met Job, I know that he will probably always be one of the most righteous people known till always. And God can't honestly be all that bad if he gave such great blessings to this man. God is kind in great ways.

Job's Suffering

The Bible. Oh why did I ever start reading it? Oh yeah, I have to for English. I almost forgot thanks to the confusion swirling around in my brain after reading just a few chapters of the big book.
Okay, so back to the ever exciting, fat book of stories galore. The first ten chapters of Job explain how the Devil wants to prove to God that Job, a very righteous man, will put a stop to his loyalty to God after being put through many tragedies and curses all from God himself. Ones such as having all of the people in Job's life that he cares about put to death, Job being put through horrible diseases, loosing his home, his friends, and well, everything else! Even though Job went through all of this knowing that it was God himself who was cursing him with such horrible things, all the while believing that he must of done something wrong to deserve these wrong doings, Job never blamed God, nor did he curse the Lord's name in vain. He stayed a righteous man.
But sadly, Job was still being put to God's test. Instead of things getting better, they all just got worse. Bad enough to where Job was led to a time of depression. He had nothing left and still questioned himself about what he did to deserve such pain. Job is confused so he states it to God, "I am full of confusion; therfore see thou mine affliction" (Job 10:15) Poor Job.

Abram Turns to Abraham

Covenant. A word I can't seem to understand in the bible. What exactly is it talking about? Because I can't seem to find the answer to that question. All that comes to my mind, when I hear the word "covenant", is Ireland. (I won't even begin to expain that.) So what exactly is the covenant God is talking about to the now-known-as Abraham dude?
So what I understand of the chapters, is that the LORD went to visit Abraham's cozy tent. Unless of course, God goes there in spirit. [ooooh] But now I'm confused. It says, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous..." (Genesis 18:20). What exactly did they do? I don't think I'm getting much sleep because I have no idea what the Bible is talking about at this point. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I'm skimming through the chapters and verses and blah, blah, blah. But what did Sodom and Gomorrah, whoever they are, do that made them so very sinfull and made God pay a visit?
Okay, now I feel stupid because I just read a little more and realized that Sodom and Gomorrah, are indeed two cities. Yes, they are cities, not human beings. So now I know that God was paying the two cities a visit because they are unbelievably wicked. In other words, he wants to destroy them.
No offence but what is with God destroying things? Has anyone else realized that he always seems to destroy people and places whenever people are becoming too wicked or doing something they're not supposed to? All I know is that I'm surprised our planet hasn't been destroyed, cause there's some seriously wicked people out there.
So anways, back to the Bible.
God makes a deal with Abraham that he won't cause chaos in the two cities if there are fifty righteous people. Then the two fought some more and it was decided that if ten righteous people were found then the city won't be destroyed.
This guy Lot then offers his two daughters unto, someone, while he says that the, someone, cannot touch these two guys because they're under the protection of his roof. (Yet another example of how back then women were nobody's and men were everything.) And then God decides to save this dude Lot from the destruction of the city and sends them away to Zoar.
What the heck is going on?
As it turned out, the two cities were destroyed.
As the story goes on, Abraham and his wife were promised the son they had wished for. His name was Isaac. Then one day, the LORD told Abraham to sacrifice his son. Abraham did this sadly, but without doubt or hesitation. He trusted God. Abraham took his son to a place to do the sacrife where Isaac asked, "Behold the fire and wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" (Genesis 22:7) Abraham told his son there was no lamb, just Isaac. As Abraham was about to do the sacrifice, God stopped him and told him Isaac no longer had to be sacrificed. Because Abraham was willing to do anything for God, he was blessed greatly.
In the end, Abraham's wife died and he decided to find Isaac a wife.
Rebekah was found and Isaac and her were wed.

And The Story Continues

The first thing I realized was that there was too many sons with difficult names. I know I'm supposed to be analyzing the bible, and I will get to that, but first I will ask the question "Why?" Did like everyone back then have 15-20 kids each? I mean seriously?!
But back to seriousness.
In chapter 11, it explained how the tongue of the people was all one language and how people began to build a tall tower to reach into heaven. The tower made God angry and He scattered it across the ground (although it doesn't neccassarily say that) and then He created different speeches for everyone so they would not understand each other as is stated, "Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." So I'm guessing that day that God created over 3,000 different languages, which is rather insane if ask me. That's a lot, but I guess he was upset. What I can't seem to grasp is why did he decide to punish them by making them not able to understand each other? What I mean is, why did he see this as the worst punishment? Also, I though God destroyed the tower that was being built to "go" to heaven with an earthquake, so why doesn't it say it clearly in the Bible? I'm starting to wonder if whoever wrote this was trying to make it impossible to read and understand well.
Now, I don't understand why Abram wanted his wife, Sarai, to be seen as his sister. It tricked the pharaoh, and when he found out the truth, he sent them away. So I don't understand, why lie in the first place and have her seen as "fair"? Perhaps it did explain it, but I'm just not understanding. Was it so they would become rich and then when they were sent away, they would have many beautiful and rich things to live off of so they could travel further? And another question, why is God haveing Abram and his family travel all over? Is it so Abram can preach people in different parts and spread God's word? Maybe when it says, "built there an altar unto the LORD" it is talking about in a way, a church being built, or something like a church, to preach the gospel.
Now I'm starting to wonder why in the world would the LORD want Abram to count all the stars. Isn't that like more than impossible? There's too many! So why would the LORD want to prove Abram to prove his repentance by counting stars?!
Now, even crazier, Sarai had her maid Hagar bare her a child! It may not seem crazy, but what if I told you that Sarai had Hagar go to Abram and have a child with him? Yeah, you heard me right. Instead of having Hagar baring a child with another man, Sarai had her maid bare one with her own husband! Crazy. I would never do such a thing!
So far, reading these bible stories, I'm starting to become convinced that everyone's crazy. Just a thought.

Gayness is Attractive

Reach for me young handsome man

I'll be glad to lend a hand

But not because you're kind and sure

But rather because you are more than obscure

Yes, I'm gay

I know it's wrong to say

But listen to me,

You make me shout with glee

Your eyes sparkle of the moon's midnight glare

Your body's more than just bare

Your muscles ripple more than water

And it comforts me knowing you can slaughter

So please reach out

Don't make me doubt nor shout

I love you

As you should me, otherwise, I shall be blue

Ugh, I'll be honest and admit that this is a horrible poem. I had too much of a difficult time thinking today.

The Creation

The creation of our planet. A question that none of us have ever been able to answer but only suggest a reason why. So many reasons and theories there are in fact, that no one knows what to believe in any more these days.

In the King James Bible, the very first thing that is talked about is the creation of the Earth. It explained how god created it. He created everything, light and dark, night and day, waters, dry land, heaven, ect. He was the ruler of everything. This really takes out the Big Bang Theory.

In chapter two, it explained thoroghly how Adam was created from the things around him, it also explains how Eve was created, but not by the things around her. In fact, Eve came from Adam, "And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman," which I find rather strange how she did come to be. She was made out of a man's body. Strange? I think so. I do however, find it rather interesting as to why it was decided that a woman would be made from man and not from her surroundings just like the man. Is it proposing man more important? Or what about women being weaker?
Reading the other seven chapters, I uncovered some many very interesting things. One of which, I found to be the fact that back then, everyone seemed to live over nine hundred years old, as it explains here, "And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died." I thought life spans back in the olden days were very short. How come people back then were privliged to live for so long where our life spans range around in the 80's and 90's? Are we too wicked for such an ability?
I've read the story of Noah's Ark multiple times but now it's just really hitting me, couldn't there have been more innocent people on the world? Selected people, such as Noah himself, were told to build a boat to protect themselves, but what about the other people? In other words, the repentent people who lived nowhere near Noah so they didn't know what was going to happen. Or maybe there wasn't enough room on the boat so other people who believed the flood was going to happen weren't able to go. I guess we may never know, but I'm just sayin'.