Horrible things in the bible

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Okay so I'm a christian, but since these are your forums it would be fair to share what you hate about the bible (the unsettling parts) and christians try to argue them. (A practice debate?)

Oh my, we could begin at the beginning, but it's going to go on a while.

1) We could start by God's choosing to punish all of mankind because one woman and her husband ate a piece of fruit and gained "the knowledge of good and evil."

2) God favors Abel over Cain for dubious reasons and gives Cain a motive for the first murder.

3) God destroys Babel and inhibits the communications of man for fear they might build a tall building.

4) God destroys all humans except Noah, his wife, and their sons, and daughters-in-law and all animals except for a pair of each wild kind, and more of each domestic kind. His excuse is he thinks they are wicked although no example of wickedness is given and he doesn't give them any law until much later.

And that's just the beginning of Genesis.

1. Adam & Eve lived down the road from Assyria, Ethiopia, Arabia, and Persia. They were probably local rulers who collaborated with the Egyptians against the Assyrians.

2. The Cain & Abel story has a lot of variations, including Ishmael & Issac, Joseph and his brothers, Jacob & Esau, Absalom & Amnon. The Cain & Able story more closely resembles that of Absalom & Amnon.

3. Babel was the "nickname" given to Babylon. https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Genesis%2010:10

The Tower of Babel story is most likely a version of the fall of Babylon as told in Isaiah.

4. Noah and the flood story is simply a war story. The flood was the soldiers, probably Chaldeans, sweeping through the land killing, raping, pillaging, and generally being bad asses. Afterwards Nimrod, Noah's great grandson, became the boss in Babylon and built cities in Assyria.
The Noah story uses a lot of metaphors to indicate that it's a war story.