Protestantism

» redback - still wet

In an earlier post I stated:

"But what somebody else believes somebody else believes are simply conclusions based on truncated reasoning...and tis reasoning I'm after for my own conclusions."

This intended no criticism of anyone here. 'Truncated reasoning' intended to convey ME trying to make sense of a Biblical synopsis with each end "necessarily" cut off. Kinda like a Readers Digest Condensed version with a page or 2 "necessarily" missing. Would I ever be satisfied even with the missing pages.

Pink stated earlier on...it resonated but slipped me by:

"...There is a definite threat in all of these stories and each one leads to a need for redemption."

Genesis takes me down a stream of thought. Does that stream converge or diverge with other Genesis-developed ideas? Should I hop off at its best delta or patch the leaky boat I'm on etc?

I accept other Books and the New Testament may possibly dilute the tone of Genesis that Pink refers to. If 'threat' is too emotive a term, I'll forego mentioning 'crime & punishment'. ABC

"But I wonder if this 'book of beginnings' was originally intended to inspire, or merely record Hebrew genealogy and cultural legends."

"Inspire": I thought there was some intention to instil in us an awe of a God who can do all these things...and our powerlessness...to ever get to a level of compliance that "redeems" us...without some overpowering concession by whatever doctrinal term. The discretionary power of a President? The genesis of us needing to live in a naive profound hope that those more powerful will look after us...until Lord Acton deprived us of naivety.

-- posted by redback