MiTT3NZ wrote: Yeah, did seem a bit weird. Especially after really hammering it home that rainbows are a sign that he won't try wiping everyone out again. Then just turns round and fucks up a potentially great city. Just... very random.
God actually says he'll never flood the earth again. Not that he'll never wipe it out again.
MiTT3NZ wrote: Still though, I don't see the relevance of reeling off a list of names, who they got married to, who their kids were, and how long they lived for. Just kinda seems pointless atm.
From a Christian standpoint, God is creating a genealogy for a very special purpose: Jesus Christ. If his mission is going to be accomplished Jesus has to fit a number of criteria. The genealogy serves to prove his validity as messiah. I'm sure Jews have a different view of genealogies though. But I agree, they can be very boring.
If anything sticks out as being really weird I'd advise trying to figure out why it's there. That's how I find some of the coolest stuff in the Bible. It's weird, I think about it like it's a treasure hunt. In my view God put even the weird things in there for some reason. So it's fun to find out why.
MiTT3NZ wrote: Do you know if there are any big differences between the Jerusalem version and the King James edition? Besides the whole "one's for Catholics, the other's for Protestants" thing.
I've never heard of the Jerusalem Bible but I know the KJV was ordered to be translated by(obviously) King James. He called the top Hebrew and Greek scholars to make the most accurate English translation of the Old and New Testaments. As for the validity of each, I'm not super familiar with the different translations, from the wiki's it looks like the Old Testaments of both were from the manuscript(Masoretic text) but the New Testaments were from two different manuscripts. I'm not sure the differences between the two manuscripts.
I do know that Catholics also have the apocryphal books in their canon, but typically protestants don't for several reasons.