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Genesis 11-17 Faith

I am not a biblical scholar nor am I an expert in ancient Greek and Hebrews. I don't know what the story of Abraham means to a pastor, a devout Christian or another person. Even since I deconstructed my faith from fundamentalism, I have been  wanting to read the scriptures in a different way. Most of time I choose to ignore it because I am afraid my old way of reading it literally would have taken me nowhere. Ironically, it took me watching the series, Lucifer to have me interested in reading the scriptures again. So I have picked up where I left it a long while ago since Genesis 10. To be honest, I wasn't really inspired by anything I already read so many times that same old story of Abraham moving to another land that God promised to be his place and Sarai and him trying to have a offspring but in vain. But it didn't dawn upon me until I started to look within myself and my life with the story. I am in a very difficult situation in life like Sarai's barren womb th