Genesis 9

More about humans ruling the earth.  Ick.  You also say that they can eat any animals--so why do You have clean and unclean animals for the Israelites?  What's 9:5 about, all that about the lifeblood?  My Bible's notes say that whole section is God saying to restrain violence because violence was part of the corruption of the earth before the flood.  Is lifeblood something to do with souls?  Then Your covenant with Noah, to no flood the earth again.  Marked by a rainbow.  Why do You need reminding of Your promises?  Is it realy to remind us?  Were there no rainbows before the flood?  Rainbows seen from orbit are actually perfect circles--what a beautiful reminder of Your promise.  Like a circle has no end, so You love has no end, and You'll keep Your promises forever.  And then Noah gets drunk.  It's good to know no one's perfect.  Ham must have been the youngest.  :)  Seriously, though, totally know people like that; everyone probably does.  Who instead of doing anything about anything, just tell people about the problem.  It seems to me that Noah overreacts, though; what about a little forgiveness?  Didn't you ever get drunk?  Isn't cursing Ham and his descendants to be his brothers' slave forever a little extreme?  If every parent cursed their child every time they did something wrong, there'd be a lot of cursed children out there. Then again, I bet Noah felt just incredibly humiliated once he woke up.  Still--whole thing's a great lesson in how not to act, except for Shem and Japheth; they were very mature.