10.12.06
After the Flood
Noah built an altar to offer a sacrifice to God. God liked the smell of it and swore he would never destroy humans again, despite their strange evil dispositions, and the rainbow became as a sign of this covenant.
"Replenish the land and multiply", God commanded. It was the same commandment as the one given to the first inhabitants of this world.
Humans still had dominion over the animal world, but one concession was made: It was now OK to kill beasts for food. God decided to bear with men's violence.
However, humans were not allowed to taste the blood: "The blood is the life". As God has dominion over existence, the blood belongs to him.
Murder is not tolerated. If anyone kills another human, that person must die. As humans are in the image of God, humans should not be killed.
There is then an episode when Noah gets drunk. The first cultivator of the vine wouldn't have known the effect of alcohol, or so we are told. The point of this story is to blame the descendants of Noah's son, Ham. He saw his father naked in his tent and told his two brothers, who instead of lacking respect for their father, a serious offense for semitic people, cover him. Ham will be cursed, and that would explain why the land of Canaan was inhabitated by "bad" people...
"Replenish the land and multiply", God commanded. It was the same commandment as the one given to the first inhabitants of this world.Humans still had dominion over the animal world, but one concession was made: It was now OK to kill beasts for food. God decided to bear with men's violence.
However, humans were not allowed to taste the blood: "The blood is the life". As God has dominion over existence, the blood belongs to him.
Murder is not tolerated. If anyone kills another human, that person must die. As humans are in the image of God, humans should not be killed.
There is then an episode when Noah gets drunk. The first cultivator of the vine wouldn't have known the effect of alcohol, or so we are told. The point of this story is to blame the descendants of Noah's son, Ham. He saw his father naked in his tent and told his two brothers, who instead of lacking respect for their father, a serious offense for semitic people, cover him. Ham will be cursed, and that would explain why the land of Canaan was inhabitated by "bad" people...
# poster: Mormon(s) of another kind at 20:00 
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The covenant God made concerning the rainbow may be the only agreement He made that doesn't require Man to do his part. I can't think of another one that doesn't require Man to be obedient to the laws of God. Adam & Eve were allowed to live in the Garden of Eden as long as they obeyed the rules, and we will be able to inherit a place in the kingdom of heaven as long as we are obedient in this lifetime!
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