Genesis Chapter One - What tha?

[nomadpete]

Lilith got Undeserved bad press in my opinion, probably spread by the new wife.

 

I'd rather have an intelligent free thinking mate than a dumb subservient one. Lilith was created from the same stuff as Adam - so was his equal. Eve was all he got in exchange for a spare rib.

 

Remember the saying 'Be careful what you wish for' ......

Adam got what he wished for. And MANkind has been suffering because of his egotistical childish wish ever since.

 

 

Edited June 2, 2022 by nomadpete

[facthunter]

Who was there to record this stuff?  Had man developed a language instantly?  All the offspring would suffer lack of genetic diversity and be inbred, ,  ALL very unlikely. Nev

[nomadpete]

Nev, the life of Adam was recorded. Rupert Murdoch looks old enough to have been there - he probably wrote a front page story about it.

[nomadpete]

And since humans begat down the begatting line from Adam, to you and me, without any mention of external contributions to genetic diversity, the god must fully approve of incest.

[facthunter]

I think he's that SATAN they talk of, or Beelzebub. Nev

[nomadpete]

Therein lies a conundrum.

 

The concept of Satan.

 

It is not logical to believe that an all knowing, all powerful creator could be capable of creating anything that it couldn't control or unmake.

 

'All knowing' means that this creator already knew that Satan will be naughty.

Also means that the creator intended Satan to be what he/she/it is.

IE:- god created evil.

 

Either that, or Satan is more powerful than god, otherwise god would have despatched Satan yonks ago. So god, by definition, is not 'all powerful' after all.

(I mentioned that to my daughter and she doesn't talk to me anymore).

 

Is Satan more powerful than god? Maybe Satan created this god just to cause eternal wars on Earth?

 

(This is just an exercise in logic. I don't personally have any god or satan beliefs)

Edited June 2, 2022 by nomadpete

[facthunter]

That's SATAN at work.  I was told if I wasn't good, God would get me so I had no hope either way.. Where did she get this stuff? Nev

[Marty_d]

4 hours ago, nomadpete said:

Eve was all he got in exchange for a spare rib.

 

 

And a preacher in the church I was raised in said once, in all seriousness, that this is why women have one less rib than men.

 

(Obviously didn't believe in that newfangled X-Ray stuff)...

[Bruce Tuncks]

Why stick to the Abrahamic god? There are thousands of others.

I don't agree that there is much useful in the morality department in most religious stuff. Slavery, for just one example,  is approved of generally.

Somebody said that the god of the old testament is one of the most unpleasant characters in all fiction, and he backed it up with a lot of stuff taken from the bible.

If revelations, for example had just one prophesy that was not within the mindset of a bronze-age tribesman, then I for one would be impressed. Alas, that task is a failure.

[Bruce Tuncks]

Gosh Marty, I would like to have asked that preacher about tits on men....

[Marty_d]

1 minute ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

Gosh Marty, I would like to have asked that preacher about tits on men....

To be fair to him, the poor bugger had never had his hands anywhere near a woman's chest, so he didn't count the number of ribs.

[facthunter]

The "base" design must be generic. It's amazing the numbers stay remarkably equal in humans.  Nev