Great Destruction

There are so many scenes of destruction in the Bible that I could do a blog for each one for the next couple years. Our God, the way and the light, the salvation and glory, is also the God of taking names and kicking ass. The first great scene of destruction that comes to mind in the great flood in Genesis. God decides to erase the memory of humans off of the planet, because they haven't turned out like he would have liked.

"I will blot out from the earth the human beings I have created--people together with animals and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."

Luckily for mankind there is the great hero Noah tells God that may be a little rash and to spare all of the descent ones. With this God tells Noah to round up the animal pairs of the world and get them on his ark. This story really brings God down to human level. His emotions let the reader know that they are definitely God's children. Its like building something with your legos and then realizing you didn't like it and then destroying it against the floor. Luckily Noah was able to convince God that we are more than just legos and to give the best of us another chance. That also allows the reader to feel special considering all of us must be decendents of Noah, so we are the cream of the crop.

Noah makes a god-like move himself when dealing with his two sons. After the ship has landed and the first vineyard had been planted, Noah was able to be the first drunk and pass out naked in his tent and have his sons see him. His son Ham looked upon his nakedness and told his brothers to do something about it. Since Ham was the only one to look upon his father's "nakedness" he was cursed to be a slave to his brothers. It makes you wonder just what people did that was so bad that the earth was flooded, if looking at a naked man constitutes slavery.