We have decided to start our meeting a bit later on, starting this Friday (19th Oct)
so instead of 7 for 7.30pm we will now be meeting at 7.30 for an 8pm start.
So don't turn up at 7pm and think we have abandoned you !
This week Robert is going to tell us what Joseph got up to with Potiphars wife.
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We made the decision to change the time quite quickly. Everyone seemed happy but if it's difficult for anyone please do say so. :o)
Meanwhile, it looks like another murky tale of sex and seduction tonight (no, not Eastenders... the Friday Service!)
One commentator on last week's sorry tale of Judah and Tamar wrote that it was more extreme than a soap opera: we certainly do see life clothed in all it's rich tapestry!
Alot of Biblical archeologists admit that many battles in the bible have been exagerated or biased in their account. How can we trust that Joseph was innocent and the narrator wasn't just retelling a different story to make him look better? ie Potiphar's wife may have been right! (although unlikely)
I guess two things help me trust the integrity of the stories in the Bible
1. Pretty much all the "heroes" of the Bible are shown warts-and-all to be very fallible, suggesting that we are getting the truth.
2. Although the Bible was written over 1500 years by over 40 writers it still seems to have an internal coherence and interconnectedness.
- for example Joseph's story is also a "preview" of the story of Jesus, even to such subtle things as his co-prisoners being people who took care of bread and wine. I think when we did Abraham's story we didn't draw the similar parallel - Melchizadek brought Abraham bread and wine.
There are too many of these connections for them all to be coincidences.
In terms of "exagerated" numbers the connections are there too
eg: when the law is given 3000 people die and when the Spirit is given 3000 people are converted.
Amazing, eh?
Another supplementary question:
when nobody could interpret Pharoah's dream , does that mean that nobody tried or that Pharoah didn't like the answers he was given? How did he know what answer was correct, as you only find out afterwards when the dream becomes reality? It seems to me that somebody (Pharoah)has to make a judgement based on how "clever" the answer given is.
Erm... lets wait until we reach that part of the story....
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