Atheist Bible Study 1: Genesis

[Bucky Ball]

so Chapter 14 starts out with a WAR!
Amraphel was the king of Babylonia, Arioch was the king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer was the king of Elam, and Tidal was the king of Goiim. 2 All these kings fought a war against King Bera of Sodom: King Birsha of Gomorrah, King Shinab of Admah, King Shemeber of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela. (Bela is also called Zoar.)

The 3 kings of verse 1 fight a war with the kings of verse 2 now our buddy lot aberham's brother who wanted to live next to the big city f sodom was now at war as well.. remember that was the deal he was to live outside the city and tend his huge flocks... the fact now was he lived in the city meaning some time had past and the city of sodom made lot wealthy selling his surplus live stock and now he lived in the city..

This is where lot was captured when the city fell to the invading kings. upon the fall of sodom the invading king took everything in the city even all of Lot's live stock and family as slaves. On man escaped and told aberham what had happened.

Now abraham did not park himself next to a large city and while he and lot split their wealth evenly (gotten from a very generous egyptian king) Aberham allowed lot to pick the more fertile region allowing his brother to prosper while abraham did ok. Here is the benfit of living where no one wants... no kings to invade and take your stuff. just other smaller tribes in the area who all had pacts with aberham to look out for one another.

it is from this pact that the drew 318 soldiers (trained) So aberham went down to where the invaders were bunked down for the night and these 318 shepard 's.e.a.l.' team took everyone out while the sept. then they load up all the loot that was taken and any survivors (including lot and his people) marched them all back. the king of sodom greeted them and so to did melchizedek a priestly king of salem. who some in the church speculate to be a pre incarnation of Christ as he taught and presented himself in mch the same way Christ does. But at that time was not meant to be a sacrifice for humanity but to help direct and guide abraham and his descendants through this time. Other's simply refer to him as a prophet or a godly king, but also remember there was no religion at this time so those roles are kinda pointless.

So anyway Mel, the king of Sodom Abraham all of the stuff they took back including all of the people/Lot that were taken away as slaves are in this valley just before sodom. To start Abraham gave Melkiz, 10% of everything taken, and then The King of Sodom is so happy he tell Abraham to keep all of the spoils the live stock gold jewels/spoils of war just return his people to him! Abraham said Can't do that... I prayed to God and said he would take nothing if only he could have his brother back... So abraham said I can not take one sandal strap, as I do not want you to say "I made abraham rich." but I would appreciate it if you feed my soldiers and these other few men/spies who helped in the fight.

Remember Abraham was not as wealth as his brother was and refused anything the king would give him, which is a big deal.

Were aberham and Abraham related in any way ?