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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