Genesis 38:1-30; 1 Chronicles 2:3-6

This passage in a nutshell: Judah has three sons.  Tamar marries the oldest son Er who does some unspecified evil in the Lord’s sight and the Lord takes his life.  Tamar then marries the second son Onan so that Er might have a descendant.  However, Onan does not want his child to be Er’s descendant so he sleeps with Tamar, but commits coitus interruptus.  The Lord sees this as an evil thing so he kills Onan as well.  Judah then promises Tamar his third son when he comes of age, but Judah breaks his promise.  Tamar then tricks Judah into sleeping with her and she is blessed with twins.

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A poorly taught lesson on Paul

Inside the house of St. Ananias in Damascus, Syria

In Sunday school today we started a short study on the life of Paul. It did not go very well. We started out with a brief discussion of Biblical inerrancy. My hope is that when we start looking at the timeline of Paul’s life presented in Acts and how it differs from the timeline from the epistles it will not be too big a deal. I don’t think I made a very cohesive presentation. I will do better next week.

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