Or why didn’t God realize that the sheep weren’t going to do it for the Man?
Gen. 2.18 Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.” 19 So out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of [...]
Posts under ‘Theology’
Genesis 2 – What did God know and when did he know it?
Genesis 2 – The Nature of Man
Gen. 2:7 Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being. 8 And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed. [...]
“In a total stranger we perceive man himself”
The full quote, from The Club of Queer Trades by G.K. Chesterton, is
Then we [two men having just met] had talked for about an hour about politics and God; for men always talk about the most important things to total strangers. It is because in the total stranger we perceive man himself; the image of [...]
Genesis 2 – God gets dirty
Today I want to continue my running commentary on Genesis, moving on to the second creation account, beginning at Gen. 2:4. It is usual at this point to comment on where the second narrative begins.
Gen. 2.4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created.
In the day that the LORD [...]
R. Crumb’s sexism, racism, antisemitism, and other -isms.
As immediately recognizable R. Crumb’s work is to me, I cannot say that I know much about him. Apparently, however, his various isms are well documented. I and many other bibliobloggers have been linked by J. K. Gayle at the blog “Aristotle’s Feminist Subject.”
bibliobloggers on Robert Crumb: few mentions of his sexism and racism
Bibliobloggers are [...]
