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jmowreader

(50,567 posts)
Mon Nov 26, 2012, 05:15 AM Nov 2012

Holes in the Bible, episode 1: Genesis 1

The quickest way to tell if someone's susceptible to Christianity is to get out your sheep farming manual, turn it to Genesis 1, and hand it to your test subject.

If that person reads the chapter then throws the Bible at your head, he's immune.

Genesis 1 is the part where God made the earth and everything on or above it in six days. This is a fun chapter because God isn't completely psychopathic yet. Let me see...

On day 5, God was busier than a one armed paper hanger. He created all the animals, male and female. Day 6 was a light day. He made one thing: Adam. He made the apes on day 5 so, since the apes are similar to us, he had a good head start. But he only made one human! We know he was aware of the need for males and females when he made the orangutan, the lion, the sloth and the pigeon. We also know he was aware of the need for hermaphrodism when he made the earthworm. But in man, the crowning achievement, he only made one. Was Adam supposed to reproduce by budding?

And since Adam had no need for sex organs as, with no women around to make pregnant with them, why did God bother with them?

We know from our reading God eventually realized he fucked up and made a woman. Instead of just making one out of dust like he did with everything else, he hit Adam in the head, removed a pair of his ribs and made Eve from them. Why would he need to do that?

We can assume that Eve, because she was made from part of Adam, is in fact his sister. We should therefore find this passage, but don't: "Adam asketh the Lord, 'Lord, what shalt I call her?' And the Lord proclaimed from on high, 'She is called Eve. Since she was made from thine rib, she is your sister. As thou art fuckest thy sister, thou art a Redneck. As penance thou shalt buildeth a fine house. It shalt be ten cubits by fifteen. And it shall have a front porch. When thy house is done, I shalt createth the refrigerator. I will put the refrigerator on thy front porch, so thou will not have to go back in the house on hot days for a beer. Do thou hast questions, my son?" Adam looked up and asked, "what's beer?" And the Lord proclaimed from on high, "thou shalt findeth out."

That passage, sadly, isn't in there.

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hobbit709

(41,694 posts)
1. My question has always been "Who did their sons marry?"
Mon Nov 26, 2012, 07:29 AM
Nov 2012

It had to be their sisters or there were other people around
So it was either incest from the get go or they weren't the only people around.

Xyzse

(8,217 posts)
2. Well, if I look at the Genealogy from what they say, it always goes by just the Male Name
Mon Nov 26, 2012, 11:12 AM
Nov 2012

So, if I am being charitable, I would basically say that they just omitted the female members of the family. They just married their sisters, and cousins and so on and so forth. Maybe even went after Eve for a while, if she did not have daughters. Making us one whole genetic mess. Either way, the Bible has been scrubbed to become too Patriarchal, without showing the contributions of the women much.

Wait, that is not too charitable after all.

Maybe it is more charitable to think that for a while they reproduced asexually with mutations going from one to another, creating daughters with different genetic make up...

Let's just say, I have no clue, and leave it at that... Yep, that's it... I have no clue.

OxQQme

(2,550 posts)
3. And then
Mon Nov 26, 2012, 12:54 PM
Nov 2012

the ' sons of god' came down and inter-married with the daughters of men and we had giants and mutants roaming the earth causing unrest amongst the gods and goddesses.

Who were the Nephilim?

Is Elohim a singular or many.
As in, "Let US make man in OUR image."

If 'The Tree of Knowledge" was an apple tree, what kind of tree was 'The Tree of LIfe'?

Why did Yahweh pronounce "Me only!" there in the desert thousands of years later, turning the world into a patriarchal society?
Jealous of his half-sister Inanna (also known as Ishtar)?

jmowreader

(50,567 posts)
5. The apple tree is just a metaphor
Mon Nov 26, 2012, 03:02 PM
Nov 2012

I may be the first person in America to work The Bible and Animal House into the same post...but here goes.

As Dean Wormer was expelling the Deltas, he told Kent "fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life." It is, however, what God expected of Adam and Eve. Don't learn of evil, which we can assume to be either thinking for themselves or sex for pleasure because when there's only two of you, no booze and no weed there aren't many other ways to piss God off. Once they started doing whatever God didn't like, he abandoned them.

Translating this passage into plain English: if people could absolutely obey God he would take care of all our needs. The price for this service is total perfection in word, thought and deed. Because none of us can be absolutely perfect, He leaves us to our own devices. Later we find that following God gets our souls taken care of after our bodies die.

 

BlueMan Votes

(903 posts)
9. and then there's that whole "original sin" stuff that Eve supposedly initiated...
Mon Nov 26, 2012, 03:26 PM
Nov 2012

why did someone(aka jesus) have to die to atone for the sin? couldn't God just have forgiven it...?

 

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)
4. Don't forget the 7 broken lawnmowers and no lawn, and the Chevy up on blocks. And nipples?
Mon Nov 26, 2012, 01:17 PM
Nov 2012

Why the hell do men have nipples? Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons? They're always painted that way. And how could there be a first day when there wasn't an earth yet? When did the "day clock" start and why wasn't I notified? And yes, it had to have started out incestuously and continued to be if the next generation consisted of all their own children. Noah seems to have had the same problem.

It cracks me up that people take Genesis literally when it's clearly meant to be allegorical (as is most of the bible). I really get a kick out of the "dinosaurs were on the ark" people. Then there are the "would be an abomination" folks who don't comprehend that Leviticus was primarily a health manual. The gospels were written way after the fact and contradict each other. And the best fun you can have is responding to someone who quotes the bible with "which version?" - get ready for a blank stare.



 

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)
6. I also like how they slapped two creation myths together in Genesis.
Mon Nov 26, 2012, 03:07 PM
Nov 2012

Gaaawd needed an editor, apparently.

 

BlueMan Votes

(903 posts)
8. even earlier than that- God made the light and dark 3 days before he made the sun.
Mon Nov 26, 2012, 03:18 PM
Nov 2012

so where did the light come from?
he also made the plants and animals the day before he made the sun. how'd that work?

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