Sunday Sermonette: And you thought Fox News was fake

There is plenty of absurdity in the Bible but the end of Genesis 32 has got to be a contender for the Wacko Award.22 That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.23 After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions.24  His two female servants more specifically means his sex slaves.So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob ’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”27 The man asked him, “What is your name?”“Jacob,” he answered.28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,[f] because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome. ”Uhm, okay. So the idea is that Jacob wrestled all night with God, and won. And it wasn ' t because God was letting him win either -- " When the man saw that he could not overpower him, " he cheated somehow. Ordinarily touching a person ' s hip doesn ' t cause injury so this was some sort of magic. Despite his injury, Jacob still has control over God, who begs to be released. Apparently God didn ' t know Jacob ' s name. So God renames him Israel but in fact he continues to be called Jacob, even by God, fo...
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