and we have Father’s Day cartoons remembering all those great dad moments of the Bible. From Adam, to Noah doing that little Father Son project called the ARK. And how about Abraham and his camping/sacrifice his son outing with Isaac. Then let’s not forget about Isaac this time in the role of being dad and passing out the blessings of the first born to the second born Jacob. This did not go well. Of course, fast forward a few years and wives later, and Jacob is giving his favorite son Joseph that coat of many colors way before it became a Broadway Musical. There also is the little remembered story in Genesis 22 where Nahor named his two sons Uz and Buz (my personal favorite).

Then how about Aaron, who did not receive a Father’s Day gift after his sons Nadab and Abihu were torched by God for their disobedience? Finally, let’s remember Joseph, who left his son Jesus, ‘The Future Savior of the World,’ behind at the Temple, and lived to tell the tale

Even Satan is remembered on Father’s Day with a cartoon, as after all he is the Father of Lies. But we dads are often responsible for motivating our children to rise above and beyond the call of duty, or at least get out of bed when we call them. We may or may not use the rod lest we spoil the child as King Solomon (a very smart guy) advised, but we at least we enforce the time honored discipline of grounding the children we love to teach them a lesson or at the very least keep on eye on them since we can’t use ankle bracelet alarms and dog shock collars I hear are forbidden.