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May 22

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  beckycallender added a text contribution Day 10 - Genesis 32:1-33:20

  vs 24-25 - Why wrestling? And seriously, "The man" couldn't overpower him? Really?? Do we just assume that God let him win this round? Why give Jacob a permanent handicap as a reminder of everything he has overcome - hasn't he been through enough already? Read more »

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May 19

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  beckycallender added a text contribution Day 7 - Genesis 15

  This is one of those passages that makes me go, "HUH??!?" Seriously, if I wasn't a christian and/or had never read the bible and this was the first thing I read, I can't promise that I would go any further. So many things that don't make sense to me... Why those animals? Why cut them in half? What's up with the trance-like state - it all sounds more cultish than anything else. I guess this is why we need pastors - to explain this kind of stuff! Read more »

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May 17

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  beckycallender added a text contribution Day 5 - Genesis 11:1-9

  Verse 6 - I usually look at modern technology, medicine, industry, etc., as things we do because God has gifted us to do them. As I explain to my kids, God didn't build the buildings, but he made the men who did and gave them the ability to do so... This verse forces me to look at man's intelligence in a different light. There's definitely a negative connotation here. It also makes me wonder what we, as the human race, might have accomplished (both good and bad) if God hadn… Read more »

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May 16

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  beckycallender added a text contribution Day 4 - Genesis 8:1-9:17

  Gen 8:9 - Morbid thought: what happened to all of the bodies? Did they have to deal with that when they got off the ark? Gen 9:2 - Why do animals need to fear us? Read more »

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May 15

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  beckycallender added a text contribution Day 3 - Genesis 6:5-7:24

  Verses 6-7 sure sound like God had regrets. How is that possible? How do you regret something you knew you were going to do, how it would turn out, and how the situation would resolve itself? Wouldn't there be a temptation to just skip the whole ordeal? (I guess that's why HE'S God) Read more »

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  beckycallender added a text contribution Day 2 - Genesis 3

  Can the tree of life die? So, is the Garden of Eden still somewhere on Earth? If it is, it has to be someplace warm since they were supposed to live there NAKED. Are the cherubim and the flaming sword still there? I would assume that they would be - there were placed there under the assumption that the place *could* be found again (it's not like God destroyed it, hid it, or made it so that our human eyes couldn't see it or the security detail wouldn't be necessary, right?) Read more »

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  beckycallender added a text contribution Day 1 - Genesis 1

  vs 6-7 separating water BELOW the sky from the water ABOVE the sky... what is that?? Read more »

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