I Will Fear No Evil: For Thou Art With Me

I actually liked to read these psalms. They were short, concise, and weren't full of unneeded dialogue or explanations. They are almost like a prayer one would say before going to sleep.  Unlike the rest of the books that make up the Bible, these "poems" are easier to understand. They have the same writing style, but at least they are short enough so one can keep focused. This way, I was actually able to understand what the narrator was trying to say. In fact, all the Bible should be summarized in little practical poems that you can even turn back to remember. Maybe this way, understanding Christianism, Judaism, and even Islam (because they are all somehow based on the teachings of their version of the Bible) would be a whole lot easier. (Also, making these blogs wouldn't be so hard!)
What's even more interesting is that I've heard parts of these psalms in modern music. For example:
 "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me;" (Psalms 23:4).
This verse appears in Hammerhead, by the Offspring. What I can't really grasp is why a punk band would use Psalm verses in their songs? Another song I heard is about Psalm 137:1, and it's called Rivers of Babylon, by the Melodians. The Psalms have their message so well delivered that they are even useful to make songs from them. That's what I love about the Psalms!

The Crimes of David

Time has changed David a lot. I remember when he first appeared as the youngest of Jesse's sons. He was so young and so devoted to God he intended to kill Goliath with a simple stone. As soon as he started becoming older, his morals began changing. They didn't seem much at first. He sacked the house of one of his wives husband, but that didn't seem to have a negative impact on his image. He still was very devoted to God and respected him so much. For example, he didn't kill Saul because he was "one of God's anointed." (Samuel I 26:23). And then he became king.
Greediness and ambition can really twist a person's morals. When he finally gets to be king, he starts spreading his territory rapidly. In doing so, he kills thousands of innocent people, and sacks city after city. He even turned the lame and the blind into his personal enemies. Why would he do that? He literally said so, "the lame and the blind, that are hated of David’s soul," (Samuel II 5:8). Isn't a king supposed to have mercy on the week and the less fortunate? He conquered city after city mercilessly. Like he did with Metheg-ammah city:
"David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines. And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David’s servants, and brought gifts." (Samuel II 8:1-2).
During this time, merciless conquering isn't so bad. It's actually part of forming nations, and nobody takes it so seriously. Some think it's even justifiable. What David did that really messed everything up was commit adultery against Uriah. He lay with his wife Bathsheba, and she became pregnant. What's worse is that he then tries (and succeeds) to kill Uriah. David marries Bathsheba, and she has his son. It's so unfair that David, a king who has all the riches in the world and a lot of wives, can take the only precious thing Uriah had, which was his beloved wife. Like Nathan's metaphor said:
"There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds: But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter." (Samuel II 12.1-4).
It's actually fair that God gives him all that punishment for his crimes. Apart from making his kingdom full of turmoil, he killed his son. David deserved it for being such a greedy and ambitious pig. So much power went into his head and finished all the morals he had. Most men in power tend to loose their morals.

The Story of David

The story of David is a story of courage, jealousy, loyalty, betrayal and forgiveness.
Courage is a small shepherd deciding to fight a 6 cubit and a span tall giant. David, the youngest of the sons of Jesse, was brave enough (or stupid enough) to accept Goliath's challenge. One man from each side would fight, and the winner would let his side subdue the looser side. I still don't understand how they let the crazy kid go. It was almost an impossible situation.  As Saul said, "Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth. " (Samuel I 17:32). Obviously David did have the advantage of being on God's side, so in the end, the duel was very unfair, but for the Philistine's side.
Saul let David go on his quest to kill Goliath, and later was very thankful. However, this gave David a lot more popularity than Saul had ever gained. What's worse is that David was a better than Saul in pretty much everything. Even the women were aware of this and they happily sang, "Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands." (Samuel I 18:7). This made Saul go green with envy. Such were his feelings of hate and envy, he attempted murder two times, sent him on a suicide mission (although it didn't end up too bad for David) and later laid a heavy pursuit on him. All of his attempts to destroy David were rebutted by David's excellent behaviour and God's help. Like the book said, "And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely:" (Samuel I 18:5). In the end, Saul was never able to kill David or get rid of his jealousy.
This story is very divided into loyalty ad betrayal. David was very loyal to Saul, and he worked for him as a loyal servant. However, he did go to the Philistine side when Saul started hunting him down, betraying the Israelites. Jonathan was also involved in a loyalty/betrayal dilemma. He "loved" his friend David, and became a truly loyal friend. As the book said, "Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul." (Samuel I 18:3). This loyalty however, was intercepted with a duty to his father. He couldn't be a loyal friend and at the same time a loyal son, especially since Saul wanted to kill David. When Jonathan helped David escape, he did remain a true friend, but he betrayed his father.
In the end, it all came down to one thing: forgiveness. After his heavy pursuit, Saul was found by David helpless, but he decide not to kill him. He forgave him for all he made him suffer (and run), and let him live. In return, Saul promised not to hunt him down again, and they both reconciled. David remained a loyal friend and servant, because even after all Saul had done to him, he went back to give him a proper burial after he'd been murdered at war. David found all the pieces of Saul and Jonathan's bodies (which had been cut in pieces ad hung in different places) and buried them.

God Cares

Job's ordeal finally ended. After being reprehended by God for his inappropriate attitude, he was finally cured from his wounds, restored to the double of his wealth, and had ten beautiful children. In the end he won right? What astounded me of this ending was that God actually agreed with Elihu's opinion over Job's attitude. He also thought Job was in no position to criticize him, since he is none other than his creator. Had he been with him centuries ago when he decided to create man? Did he posses the knowledge and experience God had gained throughout all that time?  Of course not!  Like he asked Job:
"Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. 38:5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? 38:6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?" (Job 38: 4-7).
 Job is nothing bu an insignificant speck in the whole space of history since the beginning. Job is only a small human being living along a million other humans and creatures. He only has to live with what he has, with no right to complain over any misfortune that could happen during his life. What can he do about it? Only God has any knowledge to judge all creatures on Earth.
In the end we all are in the same situation. We all live our lives thinking only about ourselves, and we forget we are living along another 6 billion people in the world. If we think about it, we are only 0.1 *10^-9% of the whole world population. We are nothing in this world, and yet we always feel we are the center of it. When something terrible happens to us, we feel that God has decided to curse you, and the whole world has turned against you. The truth is, not everything has to do with you. Like Job, we've got to learn to accept our fortune without complaining, because God somehow is the one managing it. If we trust in God, then we know that somehow, he will fix things.
He did create the world in the first place, and we have to acknowledge his thousands of years of experience. Even if he did make mistakes in the past (like leaving a forbidden fruit tree in the middle of a garden), over time he has learned how to deal with the terribly restless creatures humans are.
It is very comforting to think that no matter how many billions of humans are living right now, you can always know that God somehow has an eye on you.  It is very nice to think that you can be absolutely sure that there is at least one being in the universe that cares about you. 

That's What Friends Are For

This debate between Job and his friends was very impressive. At first, I couldn't understand why Job was guilty of any crime or wrongdoing. His friends kept saying he had somehow sinned and had to repent before God. Job kept saying he was completely innocent, and was suffering under no justification. Also, he was furious with his friends for doubting his righteousness. "I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all." (Job 11-37).

But then Elihu started with a point I hadn’t considered until he mentioned it. First of all, he was younger than the rest, but that didn't mean he wasn't as smart as or smarter than them. In addition, he respectfully waited for everyone to finish their arguments, and say everything they had in their minds to later give his own opinion. His opinion was that Job was thinking he was more righteous than God. It may have been true, but although he had not sinned, his attitude was sinful. One of his arguments was:

"For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment. Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression. What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water? Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men. For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God..." (Job 34:5-9).

I completely agree with Elihu's remark. Who is Job to reclaim to God? What true knowledge lets him judge whether God has a right to punish (or in this case test) him? It is true Job is a righteous man, and he hasn't committed any sin that deserves a curse from God, but he is still a human being. Couldn’t he even consider that God knows something he doesn’t know? He was created by God, and only he can know how to judge each piece he has created. Job cannot go into the state of arrogance he has entered, and try to reclaim to God, because that would infer that Job is wiser, or simply morally superior to God. That is not a very smart thing to say when God has just taken all your wealth, health and family.

In conclusion, Elihu's advice was the best any friend could have given to Job. He not only supported Job in his earnest claim of rightfulness (in contrast to his other friends who only accused him of somehow sinning), but he also showed him a new angle of his case he probably hadn't considered before. Maybe that could be the solution to end Job's terrible curse

A Small Mistake

Reading this part of the book of Job was reading a completely different story from Exodus and Genesis. For the first time, a human preferred by God had to go through a terrible ordeal. Never had God hurt anyone of his favorite men. Abraham was given a huge amount of wealth, good children and a whole land for himself. The only time he had to sacrifice something was when God asked him to give his son as a sacrifice, but that was only a test, and he never killed Isaac. Jacob became rich, had four wives and twelve kids (what more can a man ask?), and became the founder of the Israelites. Moses never got as much as a scratch. All he had to do was go to the Pharaoh, as for the Israelites' freedom and wait aside as God destroyed Egypt with all kinds of plagues. He didn't even have to hunt for food or water, because God threw it from the sky. Basically, if you are a VIP for God, your life is made. This is why I'm so confused with Job's fate. He apparently was a better person than any of his ancestors, because as the Bible said:


"There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil." (Job 1:1).

He was practically perfect, and never had he sinned or in the very least displeased God. Hadn't God wanted this from every single human he had created since Adam and Eve's time?

It all happened when God started bragging about him to Satan, and he took advantage of the situation to test how far could that perfection go. When he found that taking all his wealth and all his offspring wasn't enough to make Job curse God, he continued to physical sacrifice. The pain was so great he wanted to die, and he was even wishing he had never been born. I wonder how God had agreed to all of this unnecessary torture. Wasn't he happy enough to have at least one human in the whole world that hadn't turned up a total disaster as almost all of his past creations were? What is wrong with God during this book? The punishment he was receiving has no reason or justification, because Job was a perfect son of God. Even his friends were impressed, and kept saying he must have angered God in some way, in order to be experiencing so much sorrow and pain. And yet it was almost like a bet between God and Satan to see if he was as perfect as he appeared. I wonder if Job will keep loving God after all he’s done to him. Be very annoyed if I found the God I've been honoring all my life suddenly started punishing me with no reason, just to show Satan how perfect I am.

The Exodus By: God

Exodus is a story that I've known for years. I know by heart the incident of the flaming bush, the miracle of the serpent/rod, the bloody river and the seven plagues. It was all perfectly clear to me until I read the King James Bible, and discovered the story wasn't as simple as I thought.

First of all, God was the one who caused everything. It is true the Pharaoh had the Israelites as his slaves, and God was trying to free his people from the Egyptian oppression. But the following quote, which was repeated many times, left me very confused:

"And the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land." (Exodus 11:10)(This quote is similarly repeated in Exodus 7:13, 9:7, 9:35 and 10:20,). I don't understand why the Lord would harden Pharaoh's heart? What was the need of it? What I understand of the story was that God wanted to free the Israelites and send them to the Promised Land. Like he said when he appeared in the flaming bush to Moses:

"I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; 3:8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey;" (Exodus 3:7-8).

He gave Moses signs so people would believe his story, and he walked with him to speak. If he indeed wanted to free his people, then instead of hardening the Pharaoh's heart, couldn't he have softened it? Maybe he needed the plagues to show all his power to the people, and make everyone see he is more powerful than any other god they worshipped. After all, he did say, "I the LORD thy God am a jealous God..." (Exodus 20:5). Still, I think that after the locust plague, when the Pharaoh asked for forgiveness and let the Israelites go, God again hardened his heart and decided to give him more plagues. If you think about it, the Pharaoh repented at least twice, and if God hadn't intervened, the Israelites would have gone from Egypt sooner. In the end, I think the Israelites wouldn't have made the journey to the Promised Land if God hadn't shown all his power and created so much fear amidst the people.

So I think Exodus was God's way to herd the people out of Egypt into the Promised Land where they could live in a covenant with him.

The Story of Jacob and Esau

The story of Jacob and Esau was a little leaned on Jacob's side of the balance. After all, he was the one who got the birthright in exchange of lentil porridge, and he tricked his father in giving him a final blessing. It was very unfair to Esau, but it seems God didn't seem to care Jacob was getting all the good luck. He even called to him and blessed him and his future inheritors. God promised:

"I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee..." (Genesis 28:13-15).
Still, God seemed to have everything planned, because he made Jacob work to gain his right as one of God's blessed. Laban made him work for seven years in order to earn Rebecca’s hand in marriage, but Laban forced him to marry his first daughter Leah. To get Rebecca he had to work seven more years, and to get enough animals he had to work six more years. How did he agree to that exploitation? Maybe he new he deserved it for all his past stunts against his brother.
The fight between Leah and Rebecca for being the favorite was impressive. Leah started to have lots of children while Rebecca was barren (God interference). Then Rebecca used her handmaid to have children with Jacob on her name. Leah started doing the same, and then Leah used her own handmaid. Finally, God opened Rebecca’s womb and she too had kids. I wonder how Jacob was feeling about all of this. I guess he was just happy getting more and more inheritors for his new generation. In the end he had four wives and twelve kids! As the Bible clearly stated:
"Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram." (Genesis 35:22-26).
I'm very glad Jacob and Esau were able to make up in the end. Jacob's actions were cruel, but Esau found it in his heart (helped by the huge amount of animals Jacob sent him) to forgive his younger brother, and there would be no resent between them. It was actually a very happy ending for Isaac's family. Apart that his grandsons destroyed a whole city (to protect their sister's honor), he probably died feeling proud of his family.

A Future That Would Never Be

In this first part of Genesis, God created the universe and molded it to form how things came to be this way. A lot of things happened here that would change our world as it is right now. All I can think of is how the world would be if Adam and Eve had never tried the forbidden fruit. The world would be a completely different place. For example, snakes weren't meant to slide on the ground. In fact, in that time they were some other creature very different to snakes that probably had legs. Because of the apple incident, however, it was punished and cursed to slide on it's belly for the rest of eternity.

Humans are another big example. If Eve hadn't taken the forbidden fruit, humans would have never been kicked out of Eden. How amazing would that be? We would be able to run around Eden, never having to work on anything else than gardening Eden, free of any worry, free of any sin over good or evil, and completely ignorant of the knowledge the forbidden fruit could give us. Like the Bible said, "the LORD God took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:" (Genesis 2: 15-16).
Life between men and women would also be very different. Men and women would understand each other, and there would be no enmity. Women wouldn't suffer while giving birth and men wouldn't be superior to women as they are thought so today. But for her disobedianece, Eve was punished worse than anyone. When God found out it was Eve who had taken the forbidden fruit, he declared:
 "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." (Genesis 3:15-16).
Adam and all men that would come after were punished also. The final condemn of God was:
"And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." (Genesis 3:17-19).
In other words, the world would have been a wonderful place if Adam and Eve wouldn't have screwed up everything. The whole reality we live in today wouldn’t exist if Adam and Eve would have stayed in the garden, obedient to God. Still, I think humans were never meant to live that kind of life. God put that tree there for a reason, so even if Adam or Eve never ate of the fruit, one of their descendants would take it someday. Curiosity is a human impulse that can become too great to overcome. It’s just human nature, and God created us with it, so he never meant for us to stay there for long.

God Almighty

This chapter shows that God will never stop interfering with humans. He decided Sodom and Gorromah didn't deserve to live, so he destroyed the cities. Fortunately God has some mercy, and was willing to forgive the city if there were even ten righteous people in it. Sadly he didn't find the ten, so he saved Lot and his family (although their mother looked back to the city so she turned into a salt pillar), and destroyed the two cities. I do understand why he would be angry with the two cities (because they were sinners), but I don't think they believed in him, so what reason did he have to destroy the cities. Wouldn't they finish their lives and then go to hell? What was the need to destroy them if their going to be punished in the end anyway? Who knows if some of the people would repent some day? God took their chance of salvation away, and decided to just condemn them all.

Later he wanted to punish Abilmelech for taking Sara from Abraham, even if they had said she was her sister. Albimelch protested, "Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this." (Genesis 19:15-16). That part I really didn't understand.

Another example is when he tests Abraham. God just needs the ultimate proof that Abraham is completely loyal to him, so he asks for his only son for sacrifice. One day he said, "Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of." (Genesis 22:2). I really don't know how Abraham obeyed so easily. He didn't even seem to falter or think twice. It really was an act of unconditional obedience that I wouldn't expect from any person I know. I personally wouldn’t have been able to give anyone I'm attached to for sacrifice, not even to the greatest God that ever existed. I wonder how Isaac felt after that experience. I honestly wouldn't go near my dad if he even thought of giving me as sacrifice to a God, even if it is just a test.

Fortunately for Abraham, his complete devotion to God gave him good results. He was blessed by God, and had good fortune for the years that came after. In the end, all he suffered was rewarded by God's approval. That's the advantage of being on God's side. What impresses me of what I've read until now is how different God is during that time to the image of God we have today. In that time, if you weren't in God's side, you might as well right your will soon, because your future could lie in drowning, burning, turning into salt or just be eternally cursed by God. Today's image (the one I believe in) is a God that loves everyone, no matter what he/she does. He is full of forgiveness, and encourages people to love your friend and your enemy alike. He wants us to strive for kindness and good actions, and leave violence as a useless solution. Obviously this image of God is a lot nicer than the version of God that appears on Genesis. In this era of violence and disturbance, a God like this one is just what we need.

To the Promised Land

During these chapters, I noticed that each generation lives a little less than the previous one, but they give no explanation at all. As each father gives children, they satr dying a little younger each time. Just like the Bible said:

"These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: It all starts with Shem, "And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah: ... And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters...  And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah: And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran." (Genesis 11:10-26)

I also noticed that God broke his promise of not interfering with humans after the flood. First he caused everyone to speak different languages, so they wouldn't live together and conceive great achievements like the Tower of Babel. That's very jealous of God! He ruins man in all ways possible so they can live under his dominion. Obviously, since Adam ate the apple of good and evil, God fears the human possibility of destroying the world, and therefore tries to inhibit man's ability to create.

He also broke it again by sending Abraham to "the promised land". Why does God want Abraham to go to this land so much? He shows so by saying:
"Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed." (Genesis 12:1-3). It seems God wants to start over with a new nation. He already failed with the descendants of Adam starting with Cain murdering Abel. He killed all of their descendants in the flood except for Noah and his family. Apparently, he doesn't trust them too much, since he gave them different languages so they couldn't understand each other, and hence had to be dispersed across the land. Now he wants Abraham to go to this Promised Land and maybe make a country of God's followers. He blessed him and his following generations (unlike Adam to which he cursed for eternity) so they could thrive in this land he promised to Abraham if he decided to go there. Apparently God doesn't want to give up on humans yet. He still has some hope that at least one human turns out to be what he expected when he decided to create humans so they could rule the Earth (Genesis 1: 28).

God's Wrath

These chapters of Genesis also show the huge sexist attitude the Bible has. How come the woman gets the blame for eating the fruit? It was the snake who tricked her into eating it. And why would that tree be in Eden in the first place? If God didn't want anyone to eat from it, why would he put it there?

The punishment to Eve was worse than any other, and I think it was very unfair. One of God's punishments to Eve was, "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." (Genesis 3:16)
After the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden, everything seemed to go wrong for God. Apparently evil struck Cain and he killed his brother Abel. God punished him and set a mark on him that every man who saw him had to kill him. I don't understand why God made the curse of revenge a sevenfold of times over Cain's murder. All he did was create violence among humans, and see that evil was what ruled most men's hearts.
Fortunately for him, Adam and Eve's third son, Seth, was good and had generations of good descendants. When God was already tired with his huge screw up of creation, he decided to get rid of everything and start over (like if the Earth was just a video game where you can restart countless times). He told Noah (who like his ancestors was like 600 years old and was considered young) to build an ark where he would save a pair of each species and simply cleared the Earth of life. Fortunately for future generations, after the flood God promised he would never interfere again in Earth matters. He places a rainbow every time there's a cloud to assure us we aren't going to die. But honestly who knows? God seems to have a very unstable personality in Genesis. If you get him angry enough, he just might forget to put the rainbow, and that's when we have to run for our sorry lives. I definitely hope he doesn't loose his temper any time while I'm alive (which hopefully won't happen, because unlike people at that time, life expectancy doesn't go above 80 years average in the older people countries).

For Adam's Delight

This text stunned me because I didn't know how God had such a big preference for Adam (meaning I didn’t know how sexist the Bible was). He created a huge garden were he could live carelessly and only had to tend of the garden. Like the Bible stated, "And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:" (Genesis 2:15-16). He didn't need to work for his food and everything in it was beautiful. Then he created animals to give him company and to be under his rule (he could eat them whenever he wanted). After that, he created Eve to give Adam some company. Only because Adam felt lonely did God think of creating a partner for him. This means God didn't see women as a priority for the universe. So, since the beginning, women have been less than men. It is so weird even God himself says that women have to be men's company, and wouldn't exist if man hadn't needed a little company. It’s sad how even God forgets the importance of women in the universe.