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3/4/08 Genesis 50:26 - Heaven or Hell, Let’s Rock

By Flak | Comments: 5

This is like, a week late. Because I’ve been sick. The assignment: analyze the last verse of Genesis.

Genesis 50:26. Jesus died for our sins.

The repetition of Joseph’s age at death is not what’s interesting. Neither is it that he was embalmed (Jacob was embalmed). Nor is it the coffin in and of itself. Coffins are just one more technological advance in ceremonial burial (we can build Temples now to make one citizen happy).

I think what’s interesting is that Joseph was embalmed and buried in a coffin in Egypt.

In other words, he went through all the rituals of Egyptian burial.

So, he was likely buried with his possessions.

And he went to the afterlife.

Some indefinite amount of time before Jesus ;)

I’m not sure if Joseph going to Heaven before any other follower of God can is the irony to which Carton has referred many times. Another possibility is that Genesis (the beginning) ends with a death (the ultimate ending—given that there is no going to Heaven yet, which may be a fallacious assumption if my other stuff in this post makes any sense).

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  1. I think you are reading text between the lines that isn’t actually there. I also think you shouldn’t write under the influence of disease and drugs anymore.

    KingCrazyGenius — 3/5/08 @ 4:17 pm | #Link | Reply

  2. I don’t want to hear that first bit from you who lectured me so sternly when I complained about the lack of detail regarding Sodom and Gomorrah’s sins. You very specifically defended God’s reasoning with the excuse that not every detail is included in the Bible. I think it’s a much smaller stretch of the imagination to say “because parts 1 and 2 of a ritual were completed, the common part 3 was likely completed” than to say “because a decidedly fickle omnipotent deity annihilated a few cities, they committed some sin that needs never be mentioned in any of the explanations regarding their annihilation.”
     
    But that’s just me.
     
    As for the second part, the only drug I’m on is vitamin c and I’ve written brilliant things while sick in the past. Maybe you just don’t want me to write anymore because how right I am pisses you off? ;)

    Flak — 3/5/08 @ 4:57 pm | #Link | Reply

  3. I also think that I have no idea what either of us is talking about.

    KingCrazyGenius — 3/5/08 @ 5:41 pm | #Link | Reply

  4. I also think that “Heaven or Hell, Let’s Rock” needs to be reserved for things far more awesome than Joseph’s death and embalming.

    Also, did Egyptians mummify the way we think of back then?

    KingCrazyGenius — 3/5/08 @ 5:52 pm | #Link | Reply

  5. @your penultimate comment: that thought, coming from you, leads me to want to say something like ‘business as usual’—only, that’d be kind of mean, and I’m trying to stay away from that.
     
    @your less penultimate comment: I’m not pulling punches. Also, I don’t know for sure? Egyptian mummification is Egyptian mummification as far as I’m concerned and according to the Bible this is all going down somewhere 1000-500 BCE… you know, I’m not huge on ancient world history, but I assume that we’ve got mummies in museums in this country… from Egypt… from before that time.

    Flak — 3/5/08 @ 6:00 pm | #Link | Reply

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