Second take:
"Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave unto his wife: they shall be one flesh."
-- Genesis 2:24
Now, you right wing conservatives... before you start spoutin' off with "See, man and woman should be together, Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve... (it rhymes! it MUST be true)
Before you do that--
Adam and Eve, let's examine their relationship:
They talk to a snake, disobey God, break the ONE rule in the world, get kicked out of Paradise, and raise a couple of upstanding boys... till one kills the other.
Shyeah, ideal couple.
Pobody's Nerfect.
We all make mistakes-- hell, The Flood (Genesis, ch.s 6-8) is God taking a big eraser and starting fresh, grabbing the Earth like a basketball, shouting "Do over! Do over!"
That's why the Bible is so cool-- the people in it aren't perfect (relax, I haven't gotten to Jesus yet... maybe he was a lousy tipper).
The first people disobey God, their kids murder each other, Noah gets drunk, his son laughs at his naked ass (9:22), etc.
Monday, November 9
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