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From here, the story then spirals downward. Chapters 3-11, they trace the widening ripple effect 波紋・波及
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of the rebellion and of human relationships fracturing at every level. 破砕
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So there's the story of two brothers, Cain and Abel. Cain is so jealous of his brother that he wants to murder him.
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And God warns him not to give in to the temptation but he does anyway. He murders him in the field.
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So Cain then goes on to build a city where violence and oppression reign. And this is all epitomized in this story 弾圧・抑圧 象徴
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of Lamech. He's the first man in the Bible to have more than one wife. He's accumulating them like property.蓄積・ためる
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And then he goes on to sing a short song about how he's more violent and vengeful than Cain ever was. 激しい・凶悪 報復・復讐
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After this we get an odd story about the "sons of God, " which could refer to evil, angelic beings, 言い及ぶ 天使
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or it could refer to ancient kings who claimed that they descended from the gods. 古い 主張 降りて
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And like Lamech, they acquired as many wives as they wanted and they produced the Nephilim, these great warriors of old. 取得・買収 戦士
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Whichever view is right, the point is that humans are building kingdoms that fill God's world with violence and even more corruption. 堕落・不正
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In response, we are told that God is broken with grief, humanity is ruining his good world and they're ruining each other. 台無し
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And so out of a passion to protect the goodness of his world, he washes it clean of humanity's evil with a great flood.
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But he protects one blameless human--Noah, and his family. And he commissions him as a new Adam.
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He repeats the divine blessing and commissions him to go out into the world. And so our hopes are really high 神聖
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but then Noah fails too. and also in a garden. He goes and he plants a vineyard and he gets drunk out of his mind.
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And then one of his sons, Ham, does something shameful to his father in the tent. And so, here we have our new "adam," naked and ashamed,
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just like the first. And the downward spiral begins again. It all leads to the foundation of the city of Babylon.
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The people of ancient Mesopotamia, they come together around this new technology they have--the brick. レンガ
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And they can make cities and towers bigger and faster than anybody's ever done before. And they want to build
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a new kind of tower that will reach up to the gods and they will make a great name for themselves.
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It's an image of human rebellion and arrogance. It's the garden rebellion now writ large. 反乱・反逆 傲慢・横柄
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And so God humbles their pride and scatters them. Now this is a diverse group of stories but you can see 異・反乱
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they're all exploring the same basic point: God keeps giving humans the chance to do the right thing 探る
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with his world and humans keep ruining it. These stories are making a claim that we live in a good world that we have turned bad--
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that we've all chosen to define good and evil for ourselves and so we all contribute 定義 貢献・寄与
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to this world of broken relationships, leading to conflict, and violence, and ultimately death. 葛藤・紛争 最終的・つまるところ
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But there's hope. God promised that one day a descendant would come--
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the wounded victor who will defeat evil at its source. And so despite humanity's evil, God is determined to bless and rescue his world. 倒す その源で
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And so the big question is, of course, "What is God going to do?" And the next story, the hinge, offers the answer.蝶番・要
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But for now, that's what Genesis 1-11 is all about.
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