I don't know if you have been counting the number of these blog posts - Google has for me which is really nice of them, that is how I know this is the 100th post!
I thought this is a good time to stop and re-evaluate what I am doing and why.
I feel that there has been a lot of really quite unremarkable stuff in the journey to date - 7 chapters of Leviticus on how to burn things probably being the worst.
However lets look at some of the things we have read
Carl Sagan once said "To make an apple pie from scratch, one must first invent the universe" and we have seen in the poetic language of Genesis the creation of the universe, planet and the emergence of life.
These days there are fantastic programmes exploring the universe with Professor Brian Cox and the myriad forms of life with David Attenborough for us Brits and the aforementioned Carl Sagan in the USA.
Really, for me at least, the true scientist just stands there and looks at the universe and then puts his or her efforts into understanding just one small part of the puzzle.
Professor Tom McLeish once said (probably more than once to be honest but once in my hearing) that "Natural Philosophy" Which translates from the Greek as the "love of knowledge of nature" is better in some ways than "Science" which translates ore or less as "to know"
Anyway we followed Adam and Eve as they left paradise, we briefly explored the colossal Noah's Ark, watched Noah drink himself unconscious and see our very own rainbows, we saw the building of the first high rise run into difficulty when language barriers were erected
We then followed Abraham as he adventures around, paid a visit to Sodom and births of Isaac, How Isaac found his wife and we then see his soms.
We saw Jacob running away and his adventures with sheep, wives and father in law before re-uniting with his brother,
We saw Joseph sold into slavery and his amazing technicolor dreamcoat, dreams and portents, feast and famine and family reunions.
In Exodus we watched Moses born, become a killer, shepherd and leader and liberator of Israel.
We watched the suffering of the Egyptians wondering why this could happen.
We saw the red sea pedestrians crossing and heard the ten commandments.
We saw the complaints of the community in difficult states and saw the fabrication of the tabernacle and the alter.
We have seen Israel wander the wilderness and spy out the promised land then panic about taking hold of the promise.
Just the other day we saw Balaams talking donkey (I still reckon it sounded like Eddie Murphy from Shrek).
Not to mention all those regulations - I think we may even have found answers to the questions in the Open Letter to Dr Schlessenger and I'll try and formulate the reply once we have finished the section of the Bible that is known as the Law.
In the meantime, I hope that you have found some new things in the Bible so far, thank you for reading.
Mark
Nov 21st 2013
I thought this is a good time to stop and re-evaluate what I am doing and why.
I feel that there has been a lot of really quite unremarkable stuff in the journey to date - 7 chapters of Leviticus on how to burn things probably being the worst.
However lets look at some of the things we have read
Carl Sagan once said "To make an apple pie from scratch, one must first invent the universe" and we have seen in the poetic language of Genesis the creation of the universe, planet and the emergence of life.
These days there are fantastic programmes exploring the universe with Professor Brian Cox and the myriad forms of life with David Attenborough for us Brits and the aforementioned Carl Sagan in the USA.
Really, for me at least, the true scientist just stands there and looks at the universe and then puts his or her efforts into understanding just one small part of the puzzle.
Professor Tom McLeish once said (probably more than once to be honest but once in my hearing) that "Natural Philosophy" Which translates from the Greek as the "love of knowledge of nature" is better in some ways than "Science" which translates ore or less as "to know"
Anyway we followed Adam and Eve as they left paradise, we briefly explored the colossal Noah's Ark, watched Noah drink himself unconscious and see our very own rainbows, we saw the building of the first high rise run into difficulty when language barriers were erected
We then followed Abraham as he adventures around, paid a visit to Sodom and births of Isaac, How Isaac found his wife and we then see his soms.
We saw Jacob running away and his adventures with sheep, wives and father in law before re-uniting with his brother,
We saw Joseph sold into slavery and his amazing technicolor dreamcoat, dreams and portents, feast and famine and family reunions.
In Exodus we watched Moses born, become a killer, shepherd and leader and liberator of Israel.
We watched the suffering of the Egyptians wondering why this could happen.
We saw the red sea pedestrians crossing and heard the ten commandments.
We saw the complaints of the community in difficult states and saw the fabrication of the tabernacle and the alter.
We have seen Israel wander the wilderness and spy out the promised land then panic about taking hold of the promise.
Just the other day we saw Balaams talking donkey (I still reckon it sounded like Eddie Murphy from Shrek).
Not to mention all those regulations - I think we may even have found answers to the questions in the Open Letter to Dr Schlessenger and I'll try and formulate the reply once we have finished the section of the Bible that is known as the Law.
In the meantime, I hope that you have found some new things in the Bible so far, thank you for reading.
Mark
Nov 21st 2013
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