Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Genesis Thoughts






Today  class we made a chart on quotes from God in Genesis . In my chart I mainly did the quotes on gods dialogue.  Our total goal was to find characterizations for God.  When I made the chart I used this cool app called simplemind+ . It allowed me to easily make a flow chart with different colors as seen in the picture above. In this assignment I learned above gods characterizations, sometimes gods angry, upset, and sometimes he is carrying and understanding . This interests me because usually in story's a character has a lot of similar traits, like kind and enthusiastic. But God has different traits throughout Genesis. I really like the characterization of God, I'm not sure why most characters don't have extremely different traits. As I was reading Genesis I really didn't focus that much on it like most books, in my opinion it doesn't use extremely complex sentences so it's not a hard read but it's not easy either. I always liked the story of Genesis, I find it fascinating. One of the concepts I really thought hard about is that it all started about 2000 years ago. But did it really? Day 1 was only 1 day long, but was it. Day 1 God created the earth and the heavens, then he created light. After he created light he decided he needed to add darkness. Wait a minute. How is a day defined? A cycle where the sun rises falls and rises again. So there was really no sense of time when God created light. It could have been billions of years, it could have been a thousand years. Until he created darkness. Which finally defined 1 day.

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Comparing flood myths

Flood stories have been around since the epic of Gilgamesh the first flood story. The Epic of Gilgamesh told a tale of the gods getting angry at mortals for being to loud and killing all of them. But one man foretold about the flood  made a  boat with 2 of every animal. In the legend of Deucalion the world was flooded as well. But in this legend, they  build a chest. Only  Deucalion and his wife survived in the chest. Others climbed the highest mountain in order to survive the flood



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Hey I'm Ariel.On my blog page I'm going to be posting English assignments. I will be posting blogs every so often. I'm from New York and in high school. I'm 14 years old. I like math and science. I like to play sports. Basketball is probably my favorite sport. My favorite color is green.