Read the Bible in a Year

Welcome to Read Through The Bible In A Year. Each day you will have an average of two or three chapters to read with questions for each section. It is best to have a journal for your questions and answers. There will also be optional meetings twice a month if you want to meet with others in this program. If you have questions or comments please contact Matt at matt@go-newhope.com

Thursday, January 7, 2010

January 7

Read Genesis 21-23
  1. Why did Abraham send Hagar and Ishmael away?
  2. How was Abraham tested in Chapter 22?
  3. Where was Sarah buried?

posted by Sam | 1/07/2010 12:00:00 AM

1 Comments:

Anonymous Rob Welch said...

So here’s the book on Lot:
1. He showed tremendous disrespect for his elder patriarch (who just saved his bacon a few chapters earlier) when he chose the prime land when graciously offered the choice instead of deferring to Abraham.
2. He at a minimum showed tacit condoning of Sodom and Gomorrah’s hideous culture.
3. Offered his virgin daughters.
4. Allowed his daughters to marry into a pagan culture (something Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob avoided at great length or dreaded).
5. Didn’t really want to leave sin city when no less than angels told him to and then still tried to bargain a less than God fearing location.
6. Didn’t protect his wife from spiritual attack and failure (ie. death).
7. And that whole uncomfortable drunken incest thing with his daughters.

And yet in 2 Peter 2:7, the Holy Spirit via Peter calls Lot “that righteous man.”

How should we explain this apparent dichotomy to a Bible skeptic?

January 8, 2010 3:22 PM  

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