Old Testament: Fave Moments

I kinda dug that whole General Contracting thing God had going with The Creation.

My favorite Old Testament moment is the folds of God's cloak as he walks by. Moses had balls to ask God to show himself, and he got it! I think that would be the most thrilling/terrifying thing to see the folds of God's cloak as he walks by.

*shudder*
Talk about a close encounter!

The begets and begats.

Remember just like I said.

Those have purpose too!

...and Paul begat Erich...

I love the Proverbs. Some of those sayings are right on the mark. You'd think we would have moved past that after 2500 years.
"It is better to dwell in the corner of a rooftop then in a wide house with a contentious woman" is one of my favorites.

I heard Mike Savage say that the other day...

This has always been my favorite. In the New International Bible, the Headder for this chapter saya something like Jacob wrestles God. But what I really love about this is Jacob wins. I used this passage in my paper called
The Bible: Is it Proof of Extra Terrestrials?

Here is the Passage as it reads in the NRSV of the Bible:

22 The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. 24Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. 25When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket; and Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. 26Then he said, "Let me go, for the day is breaking." But Jacob said, "I will not let you go, unless you bless me." 27So he said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob." 28Then the manb said, "You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel,c for you have striven with God and with humans,d and have prevailed." 29Then Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." But he said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed him. 30So Jacob called the place Peniel,e saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved." 31The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip. 32Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the thigh muscle that is on the hip socket, because he struck Jacob on the hip socket at the thigh muscle.

He said that he came face to face with God. Not an angel - God. This is one of the most important passages in the Bible. God either was a man or took the shape of a man thousands of years before Jesus did. The question is not what does it mean, it is... do you believe it? Do you draw some other conclusion or do you take what the Bible says as (for lack of a better term) gospel?

Yes Jesus came to earth several times before his actual physical birth. The term has always been used as the Angel of The Lord. Before the battle of Jericho. The wrestling with Jacob. The exposure to Moses. And another time I cant think of presently.

You can read up further on those things if you wish. ANd why didn't Jacob say the guy looked funny if he was extra terrestrial or anything?

Anyways I ll read up more tonight on that.

That is bizarre, I was not at all familiar with Gods penchant for wrestling. And if a stranger approaches me, proceeds to wrestle me all night, then won't tell me his name, I'm calling the cops because that is just not right.

Unless of course God is female, then I might let it slide....

I think that Jacob knew something was up with the dude he was wrestling, other wise he wouldn't have asked for his blessing. Would you ask for a blessing if you got in fight with some dude in the woods at a ford of a river? What I don't quite know about this is why the fight started.

I am not trying to prove the existence of E.T.'s. I just speculate. It is a question I ask myself often enough to write a paper on it. I wish that I could find it now. I wrote it my first year of college.

I like all the "laying with."

Chris Farley: Um, God? Do you, um, remember that time....um...when those little kids...um...were like makin' fun of your prophet for being bald? And, uh, you sent, um, like, a big bear and ate them?

God: Yes, Chris, I do remember that.

Chris Farley: That was awesome!