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Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground,
Yes I'm telling you that a False God has mislead everyone when it comes to this book. Giving reasons why some people hate the Bible and why others simply misunderstand it.
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: BlockBanOutkast
OP, are you asserting that the Genesis story has been tampered with, and somebody inserted a "false God" into the mix to justify themselves somehow, or are you asserting that the story tells us/warns us of a false god in the Genesis story, and explains when and how we were duped by this false god....?
4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[a] and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground
originally posted by: Excallibacca
I interpret this all a different way. I see Genesis 1 as a rough outline of a story, followed by the story itself, starting in Genesis 2:4
4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
Genesis 2:4 closes out the outline encompassed in Genesis 1:1 - 2:3
Genesis 2:5 starts delving deeper into the story:
5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[a] and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground
It's sort of like saying "Today, I woke up, I brushed my teeth, then I took a shower" compared to "Today, I awoke when my alarm went off at 6:40am. I rolled my left foot out of the bed and found purchase on the floor before swinging my right leg round next to it. After finally awaking enough to stand firmly, I took my toothbrush from its resting place, dabbed it with toothpaste...." and you can see my point.
Genesis 5:4 tells us that Adam and Eve "begat sons and daughters." Josephus, the Jewish historian, states that "The number of Adam's children, as says the old tradition, was thirty-three sons and twenty-three daughters." The point, of course, is that Adam and Eve did have many children.
Therefore, brothers must have married sisters at the beginning. Remember that the law against close intermarriage was not given until the time of Moses—e.g. "none of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him" (Leviticus 18:6). There was nothing wrong with brother and sister marriages, originally. If you think about it, that is the only way to populate the world, starting with only one pair. Notice that Abraham married his half sister with no condemnation from God, even though this was later forbidden
3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. 4 After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.
originally posted by: Shiloh7
a reply to: BlockBanOutkast
Something that has always bothered me about the biblical creation story is that god supposedly created the vegetation etc which needs sunlight for photosynthesis prior to his actually creating the sun.
So someone who clearly didn't know their botany wrote genesis. Just a little something I got the ruler for for pointing it out at school.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: BlockBanOutkast
So if I'm reading this right, you are taking the obvious contradictions within the Genesis account and saying that they are the work of two "gods", one the real god and another a deceiver? Thus that is why they are contradictory? Why couldn't it just be sloppy book writing?