James K Lambert

  • The Word

    trying to get myself in the habit of regular Bible reading - starting this time with a plan of Jesus-focused passages - how fitting that it starts with "the word"

    Created about 1 month ago

    John 1:1 (KJV)

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes

    2012-01-13

  • Why does God hold back man's power?

    Just as God denied men the tree of life, once we ate from the tree of knowledge, here God denies men the ability to communicate and act as one united people. Why?

    Created 5 months ago

    Genesis 11:6 (KJV), Genesis 11:7 (KJV)

  • be fruitful and multiple 2

    Here's the passage I was looking for where Noah's family is commanded to repopulate the Earth and given command over the animals. Not a fashionable view of man's relationship to the rest of nature but…

    Created 5 months ago

    Genesis 9:1 (KJV), Genesis 9:2 (KJV)

  • Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights

    2012-01-13

  • my brother's keeper

    Just rereading this story to confirm my memory. This is one of the most misused passages I can think us. It is typically presented as if each of us was commanded by God to be "our brother's keeper," when…

    Created 5 months ago

    Genesis 4:9 (KJV), Genesis 4:10 (KJV)

  • fruitful and multiple

    Reading this phrases in context, it seems that the animals, more than man is the subject of God's order, which is not the way it is normally used/referenced. I wonder if there is another passage like…

    Created 5 months ago

    Genesis 8:17 (KJV)

  • a good name

    So glad we named our son Noah; he's living up to it.

    Created 5 months ago

    Genesis 6:9 (KJV)

  • How human is God?

    The Old Testement God in particular feels very human, i.e. not all knowing and subject to emotions, which raise the question for me: If we are created in his image, what is His image? Are the things we…

    Created 5 months ago

    Genesis 6:6 (KJV), Genesis 6:7 (KJV)

  • "we" God

    I'm unsure what to make of this plural talk of God?

    Created 5 months ago

    Genesis 3:22 (KJV)

  • the desire to be as God

    We think knowledge will make us like a god and in some ways it will, but it falls short being God.

    Created 5 months ago

    Genesis 3:5 (KJV)

  • Who came first, man or beast?

    This passage make it sound as if the animals were created after Adam, but previous passages suggest that they had already been created, and that man/men were created before the singular Adam. It reenforces…

    Created 5 months ago

    Genesis 2:19 (KJV)

  • Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note

    2012-01-09

  • The Road

    If you've read the novel, it ends with a reference to this passage and an illusion to man's divine nature. A beautiful thought, God breathing life into us all.

    Created 5 months ago

    Genesis 2:7 (KJV)

  • Earned a Badge — Shared a Bible Reference

    2012-01-09

  • Earned a Badge — Subscribed to First Reading Plan

    2012-01-09