Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Today's reading begins with people deciding to build a tower reaching to the heavens.   God is displeased with their attitude.  I think they have this in common with Cain -- an attitude problem.  The passage begins in Genesis 11 and continues to the end of the chapter, all the way to Abram.  It is amazing to me that we have come all the way from creation to Abram in 4 days of reading.  The span of time from creation until the flood (according to my commentary) is 1,656 years.  That was all in 3 days of reading!  Compared to the relatively brief history of the United States (235 years) and the volumes that have been written of its history, it makes sense that much is not revealed in Genesis.