Genesis 24 \u2013 27<\/b><\/p>\n
\nI am sorry but I have to mention this because it\u2019s something I don\u2019t get. Verse 24:9 implies something that seems odd:\n<\/p>\n
\nThe trusted servant took the oath, holding in his hand Abraham\u2019s power to give life. He swore to do what his master required.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n\u201cAbraham\u2019s power to give life\u201d near his \u201cthigh\u201d is his \u201ctally-whacker\u201d. I read this and cannot imagine how or why someone would ever start that tradition. That would freak me out!!\n<\/p>\n
\nToday is going to be a bunch of questions, like after Sarah\u2019s death Abraham takes another wife and has more children, what comes of them? And in verse 24:67 Isaac takes a wife:\n<\/p>\n
\nThen Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah\u2019s tent. He took her as his wife and slept with her, and grew to love her deeply. In this way, Isaac found comfort in the wake of his mother\u2019s death.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nThis is not a traditional love story, since the sex part comes before love. Sounds like modern day courtship!! I understand arranged marriages, but doesn\u2019t mean I agree with them or accept them as \u201cnormal\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\nFinally the story of Esau and Jacob always bothered me since Jacob manipulated his way into the head of the Jewish nation. Why did God allow this? He got the birth right by taking advantage of his brother\u2019s hunger. In verse 27:24 he says \u201cI am\u201d Esau to his father and got the blessing by telling a lie to his father. How can that be a true blessing? And then why could he only \u201cbless\u201d one of his children? I want to \u201cbless\u201d mine \u201cequally\u201d and give them an \u201cequal\u201d share of the estate. No one is special or above the other.\n<\/p>\n
\nSometimes you have to ask why in Malachi he said that God hated Esau. Why did God grow the nation of Israel from a manipulative and lying mama\u2019s boy over a self-centered independent one? Just questions, and am not yet happy with the answers I have found over the years. In the end, it\u2019s God\u2019s will and that\u2019s all we really have to know about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Genesis 24 \u2013 27 I am sorry but I have to mention this because it\u2019s something I don\u2019t get. Verse 24:9 implies something that seems odd: The trusted servant took the oath, holding in his hand Abraham\u2019s power to give life. He swore to do what his master required. \u201cAbraham\u2019s power to give life\u201d near … Continue reading “You Want Me to Give You An Oath Grabbing WHAT???”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emailsfromdad.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}