I mean like, it's weird, you know?

Right there on p. 1, genesis told the animals to be fruitful and multiply. And, you know, he gives adam a wink and a nudge and talks about his desdendeants so, like, you know, we'll all adults here. we know there's only one way yo can do that. (There's more now. But not then.)

So there's Adam and there's EVe, I  mean all equipped and everything but they don't know what to do. Hey. Give them a break. Remember your first date?

On Monday, November 21, I offered the first session of Bad Girls of the Bible, an occasional Bible Study that will look at a different woman each time. This time, we focused on Eve, the first woman. I obviously can't share the Bible study with you here as it was wonderfully interactive with rich conversation. But I thought that I would write something up based on the notes I used to guide the discussion.

As I stand at the Crossroad in my life with the choice to go the Christian path or to continue on my path to Enlightenment, I stand confused, pondering, because I want, with all my heart, to bring Jesus back into my life. But I have questions, one in which is, what is the point of Genesis 22:1-18? Being a father myself to one child not unlike Abraham, I have to state that if God advised me of the same as he did with Abraham I would blatantly say NO!!! Then I guess after taking cover I would try and have a conversation with God asking him why? Do you not see my loyalty to you?

We all know God is a very symbolic being. He refers to us a sheep,  He's got helmet of salvation and breastplate of righteousness, all that jazz. So I have a question to pose: Was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil methaphorical? Let me explain my thoughts a little.

I was having dinner with my grandparents yesterday when we celebrated my grandpa's 80th birthday. During our conversation, he brought up that in Genesis it says that we are promised to live to be 120 years old. The passage that says this is Genesis 6:3, "And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years." (KJV). I checked out some other translations online and they all basically say the same thing.

We are starting our first Women of the Bible Study. We have chosen Dinah to begin.

We will look at these women in the context of their time and we will try to discern lessons that can be learned for women in our time and space.

First, the scriptures will be posted  so that everyone can read them. There may be other translations that bring insight but I googled NRSV.

Lastly, all thoughts will be honored - both conservative and liberal and everything in between. I hope this will be a fulfilling exercise for all of us.

I notice the tendency for people (both Christain and secular) to discuss God and science as though the two are mutually exclusive. Science, which is a product of flawed human intelligence (flawed in the sense that no human has ever been shown to be infallible), is quoted time and time again as being able to prove the non-existence of God, or at least the non-existence of the God as set out in the Biblical record.

Sermon, Oct. 5, Lumby United Church...Sermon, Oct. 5, Lumby United Church
ECO-SPIRITUALITY
By Hermann Harlos

In Genesis Chapter One, Verse 26, and again in Verse 28, God gave humankind dominion over every living thing that moves upon the earth. What exactly does that mean?

Does this mean that God gave us the right to exploit our planet for egocentric, ethnocentric or anthropocentric purposes? Or impoverish our own habitat, or that of others? Or cause the extinction of entire species?