when i said, "God is like red lobster"
i did not in anyway mean disrespect to the God character contained in the Torah.
After reading the Five Books of Moses, the character of God teaches an important lesson.
When you enter into a situation involving other humans, a deal arises.
A deal always arises.
The deal can be translated as covenant, contract, agreement, etc.
When a person enters into a situation involving other humans or even nature, codes of conduct must be followed.
The codes of conduct if they are followed will be rewarded.
I think life is really about codes of conduct.
Money does make the world go around.
But codes of conduct.
The question is, what codes of conduct do people have to perform to gain money or resources for survival?
I think this is basically the same lesson taught in Erving Goffman's Presentation of of Self in Everyday Life. He basically outlines how people must behave certain ways in certain circumstances all day long.
The story of Joseph is amazing, how he ends up in Egypt, and then the Hebrews end up being enslaved because of it. What a strange plot twist. It really doesn't seem logical. Seems like it was edited in by a third party to make sense.
What is strange to me is the phrase "God Remembered"
Here is what I found in a bible search:
Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.
Genesis 8:1-3 (in Context) Genesis 8 (Whole Chapter)
Genesis 19:29
So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
Genesis 30:22
Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive.
Exodus 2:24
God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob.
Numbers 10:9
When you go into battle in your own land against an enemy who is oppressing you, sound a blast on the trumpets. Then you will be remembered by the LORD your God and rescued from your enemies.
Psalm 98:3
He has remembered his love and his faithfulness to Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Revelation 18:5
for her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.
Revelation 18:4-6 (in Context) Revelation 18 (Whole Chapter)
Like God forgot them.
The sentence, "God remembered" implies that God has the ability to forget.
If you wrote the sentence, "Bob left the house and then remembered his lunch, and then went back to the house to get it."
The word "remembered" implies the ability to forget.
Which is strange.
The ancient jews must have thought about their God as something different then we think about God.
Like their God was actually somewhere, doing things, living out his God life, and could be really busy, and just forget something.
Besides the one time in Revelations, the phrase "god remembered" is never written in the new testament.
It isn't really written after the Five Books of Moses.
I googled searched two different translations of the Koran and found no phrase resembling "God remembered" or "allah remembered."
1 comments:
genesis and revelations are the two best books. maybe thats just bc theyre first and last but the most interesting stuff happens in those i think. they also are maybe the books that are open to the most wide-ranging interpretations. exodus is pretty solid. kings are good books. solomon are two books too, i think. the gospels are okay. some other stuff.
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