When we read the bible, we tend to think of the people as characters that we remember from sunday school stories of our youth. These people were real, with real thoughts and emotions and faults and good traits and family history, just like we are to day.
Going back to Genesis I have already encounter many of these people and I can not help but wonder, what were they thinking?
What happen to the beautiful Rebekah, who was daring enough to leave family and friend to travel and then meet the man that she was going to marry. Did she think that God needed her help fulfilling the prophecy that was told to her when her sons were in her womb? Did Sarah really believe that God would honor her great idea of having a baby by giving her husband her handmaiden? What is with these men lying about their wives and calling them their sister just to save their own skin. Then we have Labon cheating Jacob, his son- in- law,over and over again. We two women, no make that four women fighting over one man's attention. Covenants made between a king and two generations of the same family, fighting over water rights, sibling rivalry, a daughter stealing from her own Daddy and I am only on Genesis chapter 29. I love to read. Next time you want to read, maybe you can read the Bible to learn more about human nature and how it has not changed so much as we think.
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