GENESIS 6

Genesis 5, to me, seemed to be the nail in the coffin of credibility for the bible, but I'm always willing to give things a second chance just in case I missed something so off we go with Genesis 6.

GENESIS 6

WICKEDNESS IN THE WORLD

1  When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,

2  the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.

3   Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

Right off the bat I'm lost.  The sons are from god but the daughters are from man?  Whichever way I read that it is so wrong. It does, however, appear that god has had second thoughts about allowing humans to live so long and decided to come up with a figure slightly more in line with our scientific understanding of human longevity at that time.  He's still about 70 years off though but I'll give him points for trying...I'm not sure why god thinks he's contending with humans unless he started early with the whole virgin birth thing but never said anything until a couple thousand years later.

4   The Nephilim were on the earth in those days - and also afterward - when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them.  They were the heroes of old, men of renown. 

5  The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.

6  The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.

7  So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created - and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground - for I regret that I have made them.”

8  But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.

These are yet more signs that god is not all he's cracked up to be.  Doesn't seem worthy of any kind of worship to me.   If a god can regret then he is neither all powerful nor all knowing and the writer is very vague about what is being talked about when he says humans were wicked.   It'd be nice to know what they did so we don't fall into the same trap again. So, man was bad and God, like a spoiled kid who gets stroppy with his toys, decides to wipe out not only the humans but all the animals as well!  What the hell did the animals do?

NOAH AND THE FLOOD

9   This is the account of Noah and his family.

Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God.

10   Noah had three sons:  Shem, Ham and Japheth.

11   Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence.

12  God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.

13   So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.

14   So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.

There is a hint of how bad it was, in god's eyes at least, and let me say, it must have been incredibly bad because there has been some big time trouble in the world since than and we have had no new global floods or any other type of total annihilation for that matter. Maybe god used up all his super powers after hatching this plan. I think god knew he would be depleted after this exercise because he didn't even offer to create the ark for Noah.

15   This is how you are to build it:  The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.

16   Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.

17    I am going to bring flood waters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.

18   But I will establish my covenant with you,and you will enter the ark - you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. 

19   You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.

20   Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.

21   You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.”

There is not enough time to go into everything that is wrong with this ark and the building thereof. I'm simply going to laugh... ha ha ha... and dedicate a blog entry to just the ark and the flood so watch this space :)

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GENESIS 5

In this chapter we get to see where the Young Earth Creationists get some of the figures to form the idea that the earth is only around 6000 years old.  So lets dive right into it shall we?

GENESIS 5

FROM ADAM TO NOAH

1 This is the written account of Adam’s family line.  When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

2 He created them male and female and blessed them.  And he named them “Mankind” when they were created.

3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.

4 After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

5 Altogether, Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

930 years? The writer is trying to tell me that Adam lived for 930 years? 6000 years ago there once was a man that lived for 930 years without medical science?   OK, I'll give the writer the benefit of the doubt and accept that god allowed Adam to live that long, after all, apart from creating and cursing there is not a lot god can do so he may as well make himself useful.  The other amazing point here is that Adam was 130 years old when he fathered Seth, good to see he doesn't rush into things. 

6 When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father of Enosh.

7 After he became the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters.

8 Altogether, Seth lived a total of 912 years, and then he died.

As you would expect life expectancy dropped 130 years on when Seth was born.

9 When Enosh had lived 90 years, he became the father of Kenan.

10 After he became the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters.

11 Altogether, Enosh lived a total of 905 years, and then he died.

The writers are taking notice of the daughters now have you noticed?  There must have been a vote and girls being born began to be recognised.   The life expectancy is dropping, that may be a result of all the incest going on.

12 When Kenan had lived 70 years, he became the father of Mahalalel.

13 After he became the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters.

14 Altogether, Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died.

15 When Mahalalel had lived 65 years, he became the father of Jared.

16 After he became the father of Jared, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters.

17 Altogether, Mahalalel lived a total of 895 years, and then he died.

18 When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch.

19 After he became the father of Enoch, Jared lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

20 Altogether, Jared lived a total of 962 years, and then he died.

Life expectancy goes up...

21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah.

22 After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

23 Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years.

24 Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.

... then bang! What the hell happened to Enoch?  Did a lion get him?

25 When Methuselah had lived 187 years, he became the father of Lamech.

26 After he became the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters.

27 Altogether, Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.

They must have discovereda way to keep the lions at bay.

28 When Lamech had lived 182 years, he had a son.

29 He named him Noah and said, “He will comfort us in the labor and painful toil of our hands caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.”

30 After Noah was born, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters.

31 Altogether, Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.

32 After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.

OK, I've been holding my tongue but lets take a poll - how many people think that humans lived more than 900 years back in the days before medical science?  Anyone?  And don't give me the ol' "it's in the bible so it must be true" statement.  A few thousand years ago humans were lucky to live past 30 and we have evidence of that, what evidence do we have, bar the bible, that people lived these outrageous lengths of time?  This is an extraordinary claim and I want somebody, anybody, to produce some sort of evidence to support it.  This is not the first time I have come to the conclusion that what is written in the bible is total crap and this wont be the first time I'm going to voice said opinion.  The bible, thus far, is total, unadulterated crap.

  There has to be some kind of translation problems going on here yet millions around the world believe in this stuff.   If I were to write the bible from scratch at least it would be believable and the funny thing is nobody would accept it as god's word!   The real question here is, do the people who believe in all this actually read the bible?   I can only imagine they don't and we're only up to chapter 5.

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GENESIS 4

Adam and Eve have been thrown out of the Garden of Eden burdened with a curse from god.   God didn't seem to handle this particular situation very well as he is, after all, their Father and he should have known that the snake was going to do what he did so it's his own fault really but he is taking it out on his children.

GENESIS 4

CAIN AND ABLE

1 Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man.”

2 Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.

3 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to The Lord.

4 And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering,

5 but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.

To bring forth a man she would have had to of had help from god, that can't have been easy.   The more I read about this god the less I like him.  At first he seemed like a nice deity but now he's turning into a bastard.

6 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?

7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”

8 Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

What a wank!  Just because god liked Abel's choice cuts of meat better than Cain's veg doesn't mean he had to go and kill him.  What was god going to do with all that food anyway?   He's god, he doesn't need to eat. Besides, it's gods creatures and his own veg... if it was my stuff that someone gave me I'd be quite pissed off. It all sounds simplistically silly; almost as if somebody had made it all up.

9 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?”

“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

10 The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.

11 Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

12 When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”

Why did god ask where Able was?   He's god!!  He knows everything!!  If you can create everything but forget where you put your creations, as such, then your not a very good omnipotent deity now are you. Anyway, with the lack of prisons I guess the punishment fit the crime and lets face it, Cain knew what he was doing.  I guess he could plead temporary insanity when he committed his crime of passion but on second thought, he did lead him into the field so it was premeditated.

13 Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is more than I can bear.

14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

15 But the Lord said to him, “Not so; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.

16 So Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

How can you go out of gods presence?  Honestly, the writer of this hasn't really figured out who this god character is.  The definition of omnipresent is being everywhere at all times.  This is starting to be a nonsensical story.  How could anybody believe this stuff?

17 Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch. 

Wait, when did Cain get married and to whom?  Were there others that were not borne of the garden of Eden?   If not then somewhere along the line Eve must have had another child which means Cain's wife is his sister.  I'm confused. Where did Cain's wife come from?  The writer of this story doesn't seem to care too much about the details.

18 To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.

19 Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah.

Two women huh?  First Cain marries an unknown woman, likely his sister and then Lamech marries two women which were of more than likely closely related and then we have the obvious question of the rest of the wives and where they came from.

And all this is traditional marriage?

20 Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and raise livestock.

21 His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and pipes.

22 Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of bronze and iron. Tubal-Cain’s sister was Naamah.

23 Lamech said to his wives,

“Adah and Zillah, listen to me;

wives of Lamech, hear my words.

I have killed a man for wounding me,

a young man for injuring me.

24 If Cain is avenged seven times,

then Lamech seventy-seven times.”

That's very assumptive of him to say that he would be avenged 77 times if someone were to kill him without god telling him such like.  Maybe god doesn't yet know that Lamech killed someone (self defense of course) as he has not been punished at all.

25 Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”

26 Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh.

At that time people began to call on the name of the Lord.

So a big deal is made of all the sons but nothing is even said about the women.  There seems to be a lot of useless information in this chapter and next to no information that we need to know. I'm also beginning to think that this god is not all he is cracked up to be.  My assumption of god being omnipotent and omnipresent is based on what followers of this word have told me but there doesn't appear to be any evidence of this.  There has been no mention of his omniness (yes, I just invented a word) so hence force I shall assume no such prowess of said deity.

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GENESIS 3

It's been a while since we've read from the Bible, the last thing we see is Adam and Eve running around naked in the garden of Eden.  They know no shame, in fact, they know nothing because God has not blessed them with any kind of real intelligence so it must have been quite a task for Adam to name all the worlds animals not to mention how long it would have taken him.  So he and Eve would probably be quite exhausted by now.  On saying that, I'm not sure what she is doing except being a wife.

GENESIS 3

1  Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

2  The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 

3  but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

4  “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.

5  “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

First of all, lets tell it like it is, the serpent is a snake.  It's as simple as that.  God made every animal according to it's kind so it's a snake.  I know there are many people who will argue about this and say it's a devil or whatever.  It's a snake.  Secondly, it talks.  A talking snake, and it talks their language (which I guess in the case would be Hebrew?)  This story is becoming more and more unbelievable as it goes along, but lets suspend our disbelief one more time and read on.

  The snake tells Eve that she wont actually die if she eats the apple (after all we all know it's an apple from all the picture books in Sunday school) instead she will gain knowledge of good and evil.  The snake has obviously eaten the apple because it sounds like he knows what he's talking about.  But god said no and he did, after all, create her; so who are you going to listen to?

6  When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

7  Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

8  Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

9  But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”

10  He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

Question answered; god is shit, the snake is the shit!  There is no respect for god here at all - between the two fictional characters  one of which created you, which would you believe?  So, she ate the apple that, and lets be honest, looked damn fine and gave some to Adam who was with her.  So, and here's the kicker, Adam was there all along and said nothing.  It wasn't like he was waving his finger at the snake and saying "Ah, ah little snakey, we can't do that or god will kill us so don't be giving my missus any ideas like that." - but no, he obviously wanted to have an apple also.

  Where was god when all this was happening?  Lets face it, if you make ignorant people with no understanding of the difference between right and wrong then put them in a wonderful garden with yummy fruit, tell them not to eat the apple and then just leave them to it when you know there is a cheeky, talking snake in there - you only have yourself to blame.  But no, god was taking a walk through the garden.  Adam must have heard a twig break under gods sandal and, knowing he did wrong, hid.  The Lord called out "where are you?"  Stupid question from an omnipotent deity don't you think?

The upshot is, Adam and Eve now know God is a liar because they are still alive.

11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”

The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,

“Cursed are you above all livestock

and all wild animals!

You will crawl on your belly

and you will eat dust

all the days of your life

15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman,

and between your offspring and hers;

he will crush your head,

and you will strike his heel.”

So, Adam blames his wife for what he did and Eve blames the snake.  First they hide, then they lie, then they lay blame on others all because they know they have done wrong.  Just like little kids and another reason why god shouldn't have just left them to themselves.  Now the snake, who got all the blame, gets cursed from god for doing what he did.  The snake was only telling the truth, that's a bad lesson from god I think.  He them makes a snake crawl on it's belly... did the snake walk upright before all the shit hit the fan?  Also, if this is a "just so" story it doesn't make sence; I have never seen a snake eat dust.

16 To the woman he said,

“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;

with painful labor you will give birth to children.

Your desire will be for your husband,

and he will rule over you.”

And god created sexism and he saw it was good.

17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’

“Cursed is the ground because of you;

through painful toil you will eat food from it

all the days of your life.

18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,

and you will eat the plants of the field.

19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food

until you return to the ground,

since from it you were taken;

for dust you are

and to dust you will return.”

See what happens when you listen to your wife?  Now, maybe many thousands of years ago growing your own food was something you had to do if you wanted to eat, now, well I love to get in the garden and am very proud to grow my own fruit and veg and if I make a sweat doing it I know at least I've done a good work out as well.  Oh, by the way, we are now mortal beings. 

20 Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.

21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them

22 And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”

23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

So, god kicked them out because they were naughty and made flaming swords that protected the tree of life. Where is this magical garden anyway?  

HYPOTHESIS:  The garden of Eden is a beautiful and magical place made by god which contains the tree of knowledge and the tree of life and is protected by flaming swards.  The null hypothesis is there is no garden with flaming swards.

  To test this hypothesis we would need to find such a place.  If we cannot find such a place in all this earth then the null hypothesis prevails.  Of course AiG has the answer; the flood (to which we will soon be exploring) wiped out the garden and it's flaming swords.  That's convenient.  It seems like everything that can't be answered is because of the global flood.  So, the extraordinary claim has no extraordinary evidence which leads me back to the null hypothesis.

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