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| People who think the Bible is boring haven't taken a good look at it. Especially the Old Testament. It's a case study for psychologists and family counselors. It is full of lying, deceit, treachery, adultery, incest, violence, power struggles. There's even a ghost or two and conjuring. We can take a look at father Abraham. His great nephew, Laban, deceives Jacob, Abraham's grandson, and gets 14 years of free labor out of him to increase his own vast holdings. Jacob's mother, is also his first cousin once removed, and Abraham's great niece and sister to Laban, deceives Isaac, Abraham's son, in his old age to get the birthright for her favorite son over the first born. There's a lot of dishonest and deception in that family. It even carries into the next generation when ten of Jacob's sons lie and pretend that Joseph is dead and sell Joseph to a foreign caravan as a slave. Then there's that whole Sodom and Gomorrah thing with his nephew Lot, son a another brother of Abraham. Lot was a grown man with children who were at least teenagers before Abraham had any children. Women were not highly valued as we see when Lot offers his own daughters to the mob to protect his visitors (angels), David, the first king of Israel, is a case all by himself of how to be a bad parent. All of his kids are messed up, at least until he gets to Solomon. David is guilty of so many things, including arranging the murder of a man. He wrote beautiful poetry and sang songs to God and danced. He was physically fit and inspired many, a man after God's own heart. But to him, women were not real people, but brief interludes, to be used and tossed aside. He had to fear his own son. It starts with Adam and Eve, who played their own mind games in the Garden. Their children live in our minds forever as not displaying brotherly love. There are so many more, and I am not a Biblical scholar, but I can read and know there are juicy things there for everyone to read. You might conclude that God loves us and can use us even in our most awful condition. He doesn't ask that His people be perfect, which a lot of people fail to understand. History shows us that mankind has continued to practice one thing while believing something else. After all, they're only human. |
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