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ok. what im about to say, or write, (or blog, if you will) may not make a bit of sense to some people and thats ok. im never sure if anything i write makes sense until after i go back to re-read it, and then sometimes i still don't know. i'm not even sure yet what my point is going to be, i just know that i've been disturbed about things that are completely subjective in their contexts and by no means should my thoughts be thought of as right because i know that they are not. but they are mine and thus the reasoning that i share them with you:)
anyways, for one of my classes i just had to write a paper on what exactly the sin of Ham (remember him, in Genesis, his dad Noah..) was. I remembered the story going into it, his dad got drunk and he went in and saw him blahblahblah. but as i was researching it, i came across this article that goes into all these details pointing towards the fact that Ham's true sin was in all likelihood an act of maternal rape. im not trying to dispute this issue whatsoever, for i am obviously no Biblical scholar, but as i was reading this article, it went on to point out the symbolic similarities between the Flood and the Creation story, one of them being the underlying sexual connotations underpinning the serpent's temptation of Eve and the later rape of Noah's wife. it then went on to point out all of these lewd sexual sins committed in the Old Testament and pretty much alluded to the sexual underlinings throughout the entire Bible. as i said before, im not, actually i cant argue yay or nay about any of these specific topics but it just made me sick to my stomach a little. im not really sure why, exactly, but it did. maybe its because it seems like sex is so pervasive in today's society and to some it has been taught to be quite a disgusting and dirty ordeal and then those attitudes seem to be reaffirmed over and over again. alot of times it seems like thats all that a guy wants in a girl, and this seems to have been the case alot during the Biblical ages as well. i know this isn't the whole story, i know this. but it feels this way sometimes, to me, maybe not to anyone else, but to me, so that makes it valid in a subjective kind of way, correct? in conclusion, i still haven't figured out what my point is exactly except that i know it is impossible to completely eradicate sexual immorality and yet i pray that it might soon be eradicated in my little corner of the world.
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I think I'm understanding what you mean. I have thought about that too. Sometimes it just makes you want to gather your little group of friends and family and go hide somewhere to be away from it all. I love you Nattie!!
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