Original Scripture? Or Hoax? (Part Four)
By: Seeker
One story the pastor agreed with was the creation in Genesis chapters one and two. Man seems to be created twice. In chapter one, on day six, God creates Man and gives him dominion over the ‘fish of the sea, animals of the land and birds of the air.’ Then on day seven, God rests and decides to create Man – this time there is mention of the dust of the ground being used in the creation as God makes Adam. Adam is handed, in addition to ‘fish of the sea, animals of the land and birds of the air,’ dominion over plants.
This sounded to me very much like the move from Hunter-Gatherer to Farmer and incidentally explains, with two separate creations, just where Cain went for his wife.
Moses was a strange one. This guy does magic, takes his people out across the desert and wanders, apparently with like a million people, across the sands for forty years. This raises all kinds of questions about just what kind of desert had enough food and water to supply all those people. Even as a teen, my mind boggled at the plumbing requirements of a million people. In forty years they would leave such a layer of sewage across the desert that those downwind would STILL be talking about it.
So, never mind Samson whose hair made him strong, or the various prophets who did miraculous things that the Church would now label as satanic, there is enough in the accepted mainstream parts of the bible story to boggle the mind. At the least, there should be questions asked of those who would be our intermediary with God.
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