like jealous and rage. and why some people come to hate and harm each other. a lesson starkly taught in the story of the first children, the first siblings, cane is a shepherd and able is a farmer. both offer sacrifices to god. but god likes able s better. this is about life as we know it. and life as we know it is not fair. we feel the pain of those whom god hasn t chosen. in a fit of jealousy, cane kills his brother able. this is the first example we ever saw of murder and the gravity with which god holds the taking of another human life. and yet w the passage of thousands of years, human kind is still at it. as surely as cane killed able, the slaughter of innocents continues in the very place the bible tells us this story was set. today s syria.
left empty-handed, badly injured, but undeterred. i m so drawn to there, and i feel like i didn t finish what i set out to do because i had to cut it short. i always said i would do it before i die. yeah, i m going to go back. over the years, there have been many claims of success, but archeologists think the discoveries have more to do with faith or fraud than actual fact. you have to think scientifically. there s probably not going to be anything else. the ark is made of wood, it s going to have disintegrated. the story is from the early part of genesis. we re not sure it happened. if nothing has been found, bruce wanted to know what keeps drawing people back year after year, so he decided to climb the mountain himself, and he brought along a film crew to capture what, if anything, was hidden
age for the children that god had promised. he had already been told to send his first son ishmael away. now only isaac was left at home. abraham, for better or for worse, is used to hearing god s voice. and one day, as the torah tells us in genesis 22, god decides to test abraham. and he says, take your son. your only son. whom you love, and offer him as a sacrifice at the place that i will show you. god was telling abraham to kill his own son. you would think that that story is so barbaric that it would have died out over time. instead, jews read it in their holiest week of the year on rosh hashanah. christians read it, the same story, in their holiest week of the year, on easter.
nativity itself misses the real point. we don t know much about the historical birth of jesus, we know that the tales that were told are timeless accounts that are powerful and beautiful and still are very moving to the present day. but the story we celebrate this holiday season didn t start here. it actually follows the stories of all our ancient ancestors of the old testament. the bible is the story of a family a great epic tale that spans and sprawling across the generations. like most families, they started off by fighting one another and by making peace. they tried to make rules to live by and to keep them, or at least to learn from their mistakes. and like every family, they were convinced that they were special, even when everything was working against them. so to really understand this great family saga, i brought
it seems that whether it s a devastating storm hitting the present day united states or 7,000 years ago when a wave washes away the home you ve built, the children and community you love, the first question we all ask is why? life often seems inexplicable, and we need to make sense of it. we need something that will help you tos a suede your grief and anguish and rage. these lib kl stories are a way of finding meaning. when i was younger, this story was kind of a fairly tale for me. i think that when you get older, you kind of see the sadness and kind of the sorrow in the story. because lots of people die in this flood. destroying the earth, the bible tells us is the only thing