Pretty Darn Dry
Genesis 1:1 - Genesis 11:32
Now I know why most Christians look to the New Testament for their scripture. The Old Testament doesn't exactly make for an exciting read with all the wading through family trees. Will knowing the genealogy of the sons of Noah ever help me? Probably not.
One of the things I find most difficult with Christianity is the blind trust. As a mathematician, logic, proof of statements--these are my bread and butter, but to blindly trust that there's a God, that He created the world, that he expects certain behavior from us is something I find hard to wrap my mind around. It rebels against my better instincts, I guess.
Genesis 6:9 says "... Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God." If he really was walking with God in the literal sense, then I'd like to think Noah had it easier than us. When God told him to build an ark, he wasn't blindly trusting, he was going, at least in part, based off of his earthly senses. Or maybe it wasn't the literal sense, maybe the passage means Noah was just a righteous man who prayed a lot. It's hard to say. Either way, there always seems to be a measure of uncertainty in my beliefs; are we right, or are we all crazy nutcases?