{"id":16458,"date":"2018-01-15T22:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T03:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=16458"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:42:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:42:55","slug":"genesis-exegesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2018\/01\/genesis-exegesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Genesis, Exegesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre style=\"margin-top: -20pt;\">1   The Garden of Eden\r\n     was not about feeding\r\n     an apple to a man\r\n     but how shame began.\r\n\r\n2   Our attempt to explain\r\n     why childbirth begets pain\r\n     invoked God, sex and sin.\r\n3   Sad way to begin.\r\n\r\n4   When Cain struck down Abel\r\n     (according to fable)\r\n     he invented warfare.\r\n5   We took it from there.\r\n\r\n6   The Ark built by Noah\r\n      ferried two protozoa,\r\n     and then four and then eight.\r\n7   Disease was First Mate.\r\n\r\n8   The Flood begat Rainbow,\r\n     a sign, so claimed Noah,\r\n     of God's misgivings for\r\n     culling the living.\r\n\r\n9   The leftover rabble\r\n     assembled at Babel\r\n     to build a tall tower.\r\n10  Nui ka huikau.\r\n\r\n11  Covenants fell like rain\r\n     on the grandsons of Cain.\r\n12  God's strangest provision:\r\n     male circumcision.\r\n\r\n13  Sodom and Gomorrah\r\n     lacked ten men of morals\r\n     so The Lord burned them down.\r\n14  At least no one drowned.\r\n\r\n15  Abraham gripped his knife\r\n     to cut short his son's life\r\n     and flesh out God's design.\r\n16  God said, \"Never mind.\"\r\n\r\n17  Abraham's Sarah and\r\n     Jacob's Rachel -- barren.\r\n18  Their mates took more women:\r\n      more sons were given.\r\n\r\n19  Was this really how man\r\n      supposedly began?\r\n20  Given what men now do,\r\n      much of it rings true.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 The Garden of Eden was not about feeding an apple to a man but how shame began. 2 Our attempt to explain why childbirth begets pain invoked God, sex and sin. 3 Sad way to begin. 4 When Cain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2018\/01\/genesis-exegesis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16458"}],"version-history":[{"count":116,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16946,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16458\/revisions\/16946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}