{"id":1488,"date":"2009-12-01T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblearchive.com\/blog\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2009-11-30T23:22:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T04:22:01","slug":"abraham-the-hinge-point-of-genesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblearchive.com\/blog\/abraham-the-hinge-point-of-genesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Abraham: The Hinge Point of Genesis"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Genesis, the author has not only repeatedly used specific terms (favor, blessing, cursing, etc.) but he uses them all in such a way that they interconnect across the entire book. I want to show that in this post but I know that this will be difficult without charts—but I’m going to have to make do without them because sometimes folk fall into reading the chart instead of following the argument.<\/p>\n

\n Now, the argument I’m making isn’t a deductive argument (e.g. If p then q. p. Therefore q.<\/em>) An inductive argument is where one concludes with the most probable answer as reasonable to hold (like you can’t deductively prove that there is someone posting this, but you can inductively support it to make belief in that reasonable). <\/p>\n

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\n So, taking a step back to the previous post<\/a>, you would think that Genesis would be merely a mythology or a history of world events yet the author skips some pretty major characters(e.g. Dinosaurs) and completely ignores other areas (e.g. Chinese culture). Those things, it seems, are not the point of the text. In fact, after the last post I doubt a reader can ever look at Genesis again without thinking about blessings and cursing (and if you took my advice and looked at the book some more you would have believed me about favor and discovered some other things as well (genealogies, the book of the account of X-family).<\/p>\n

\n The author writes his history by cutting the story arc in two. From chapter one to eleven (roughly) he deals with the general history of the world (within the sphere of a specific topic; let the observation stand for now) and for the rest of the book he deals with a history of a family. <\/p>\n

\n This is nothing new; fairly old stuff. But it doesn’t end there.<\/p>\n

\n The first half of the book is punctuated by three \u201cCreation\u201d accounts. <\/p>\n