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Jul. 13th, 2005
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Jul. 13th, 2005 04:36 pmspeaking to Noah: And as for you, be fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the aearth, and multiply in it.
note: no different from his earlier blessing to all other creatures (see Genesis 1,22). the requirement to replenish the earth is dropped. did God give up on humans, and/or decided that the new law is sufficient enough to guide them?
note: no different from his earlier blessing to all other creatures (see Genesis 1,22). the requirement to replenish the earth is dropped. did God give up on humans, and/or decided that the new law is sufficient enough to guide them?
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Jul. 13th, 2005 07:26 pmAnd God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, And behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; and with every living creture that is with you, of the birds, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that came out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living crature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
clear transition from creation/synthesis to maintenance mode. it appears that, while Noah was travelling in his ark, God spent some time re-thinking the situation, and made some decisions wrt earth and living creatures. blood laws, covenant not to destroy, and a reminder (visible to himself and living creatures). the core notion here is the realization that the scale of the system requires an approach not based on direct intervention.
clear transition from creation/synthesis to maintenance mode. it appears that, while Noah was travelling in his ark, God spent some time re-thinking the situation, and made some decisions wrt earth and living creatures. blood laws, covenant not to destroy, and a reminder (visible to himself and living creatures). the core notion here is the realization that the scale of the system requires an approach not based on direct intervention.
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Jul. 13th, 2005 07:49 pmAnd they said, Come, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be withheld from them, which they have schemed to do. Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth: and they seased to build the city.
what is there to withhold?
what is there to withhold?