(December 4, 2021 at 9:45 am)Ketzer Wrote: This is an observation on my part where the bible basically talks in circles. Below are 2 quotes from the bible.
Genesis 1:26 - Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.”
Genesis 1:27 - So God created man in his own image. He created him in the image of God. He created them male and female.
When I pointed this out to my relatives (who are a mixture of Baptists and Catholics) they were caught off guard and struggled for an explanation.
I asked them, "So, god was a hermaphrodite that identified with the male side because it clearly states "he" created them male and female. They can explain this by saying god created man in his image buuuuut, then they'll contradict themselves if they try to explain the "our image part' because, according them there is only one god.
I know the rest of the bible too and use to asked all the time by my relatives. "If you're an Atheist, why do you know so much about the bible?" So, I throw it back by telling them that's the wrong question. "If you're a christian, why is it you don't?"
Let me make my own observations:
Genesis 1:26 KING JAMES VERSION
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
^^^^^I noticed that it is using the word “say”.
It doesn’t use the word “think” or “thought”.
So, it looks like there is a conversation going on between multiple entities.
Genesis 1:27 KING JAMES VERSION
So God created man in[own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. {1:28} And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
^^^^^At the same time, he makes 1 human male and 1 human female. In Genesis 2, the story is very different.
The jewish god blessed them means that the jewish god said a few magical phrases or that he rubbed them in oil or washed them with water.
Then the god gave them a few commands.
All things that are in water are considered fish: whale, dolphin, sea cucumbers, starfish, turtles, snakes, frogs, penguins.
Genesis 2 is quite different from Genesis 1.
EXAMPLE:
In Genesis 2, it just says that heavens and Earth and hosts were finished. There is no mention of days.
Then it mentions that day 7 is reached.
The jewish god declares the 7 th day as holy and the jewish god rests from all the work he has done.
Except that it starts describing work that the god is doing.
DAYS IS NOT THE SAME
There are no trees and shrubs.
Look at Genesis 1 day 3: vegetation is made.
Genesis 2 day 7, it says It has not rained. The plants are not growing.
A mist comes along and waters the Earth for the first time. So, plants grow on day 7.
DAYS IS NOT THE SAME
In Genesis 1, the jewish god creates man on day 6 (man and woman Genesis 1:27). Animals are created on day 5. So, the jewish god creates man after animals.
In Genesis 2, the jewish god creates man on day 7, and later on he says it is not good for man to be alone, he then creates animals, then he creates a woman.
ORDER OF CREATION IS NOT THE SAME
In Genesis 1, man and woman are created at the same time.
In Genesis 2, man is created first, then animals, then a woman.
ORDER OF CREATION IS NOT THE SAME
In Genesis 2, the god brings them to Adam (this is the first time we see the name Adam) to see what name Adam would give them.
So, there is no “help meet” for Adam.
The jewish god makes Adam go to sleep and he extracts the penis bone and make a woman.
Adam meets the woman and decides to call it a woman.
WHAT YOU CAN EAT IS NOT THE SAME
In Genesis 1:29, it says that Adam can eat from every plant/tree. It says that animals can eat from every plant/tree.
In Genesis 2:16, it says that you must not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
