Life after death?

[Jenny A]

If I had to pick a moral for the Genesis story, it would be that the more powerful we become, the more evil we become capable of.
Of course, others choose to interpret it as sufficient reason to be anti-scientific blockheads and hindrances to the human race.

Oh my gawd. I just googled the book of Genesis. There are 50 chapters! I thought Genesis just covered the first 7 days of 'creation'. Would it be possible to explain why you think the moral for the Genesis story revolves around power and evil without my having slogged through all that begetting?

I think Purplundy is only referring to the creation story.

Beyond that Genesis includes Cain and Able, Noah's Ark and the Tower of Babel. Then we switch to Abraham and get his life story including: god's promise to Abraham about his descendants, the almost sacrifice of Isaac, Sodom and Gomorrah, various just so stories explaining who those other none Hebrews were descended from (hint its lesser sons of Hebrews). Isaac marries Rebecca and his son Jacob tricks his son Esua out of his birth right (another none-Jewish race formed). Jacob is tricked into marrying Leah when he wants Rachael and works another seven years for his father-in-law to get Rachael too. He has twelve sons. Joseph and Coat of many colors story is about the youngest and best of the twelve.

There's much about strife between brothers, promises of the greater glory of the offspring of Abraham, problems between relatives, unhappiness among multiple wives and so on, not to mention god's special relationship with his people.

It's the most readable myth in the Bible.