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5.10.2010

GENESIS 8:20-9:29

For NIV reading click here http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+8%3A20-9%3A29&version=NIV

Today's reading is the rest of the story of Noah and the flood. It includes some of the themes we've read about already: be fruitful and multiply, God provides all we need, significance of being created in God's image as well as some new themes like covenant.

Noah's drunken and naked episode is an interesting ending to the story...

Side note: there have been emails and reports of Noah's ark being found...heard this? thoughts?

Thoughts, questions, ways of living the text...

Prayers,
Matt
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  1. MattMay 10, 2010 at 6:59 AM

    A few of my initial thoughts on this passage:
    -the further we move from God's guidance the closer we are to violence (physical, sexual, verbal, etc.)
    -this first covenant is completely one-sided: God makes it, gives it and commits to it regardless of Noah/us. It is grace in that God has promised to stick to His covenant no matter what...good news for you and me, huh?
    -families are all pretty strange, messy, and even messed up...Noah and sons could be a modern day dysfunctional sitcom...like many of our families?

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  2. MattMay 10, 2010 at 9:53 PM

    No one wants to dip their toes in the waters of the flood, huh. OK. Tomorrow will be Genesis 10...notice some of the historical comments. Then Wednesday the Tower of Babel, and soon, we'll be onto Abram and family.

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