I was watching one of those videos once where a non-religious person debates a religious person (which are always good to angry up the blood lol) and when asked about fossils that proved the world was more than 6000 years old the guy was like "well you weren't there to see that happen so how do you know it's true?" And the other person just let that go by instead of being like "Motherfucker, are you 2000 years old? Did you meet Jesus?" which still bothers me a bit to this day.
I believe 40 just means āa lotā in ancient cultures in that area. Hence wandering the desert for 40 years, or sitting on Mt. Sinai for 40 days. The āgreat floodā has 40 days of rain. I think Gilgamesh has a 40 day journey someplace? Anyways, if there are any historical echoes in that tale, perhaps they just wandered the desert for a long time. Now Iām off to eat 40 Doritosā¦
Alright, to play the devil's advocate: the vast, vast majority of eggs that are sold are unfertilized, candled, and taken before there's any real chance of a visible embryo forming, even if they have been fertilized; and I don't think that even for the few fertilized eggs that do get sold and eaten, that an unnoticeably tiny bunch of stem cells could properly be called "meat", anyways.
Alright, to play Godās advocate: every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great! If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate! And an egg is just a big lady sperm!
I asked my Catechism teacher and she said
āthey did have sisters, they just werenāt documented because nobody cared back thenā (misogyny in the Bible, who could have guessed?)
āthe inbreeding is why weāre no longer the image of Godā (well damn) and āwe didnāt have diversity before the Tower of Babelā (oh no, if only we didnāt dare challenge God, we could have prevented all those pesky different languages and cultures).
Can you just admit that the Bible is full of nonsense rather than justifying it with downright batshit reasoning?
Donāt know wasnāt there but Genesis 4 definitly speaks about other people because Cain has a wife and his sons married some women who were not mentioned before.
It isnāt explained. They were there when Adam and Eve were expelled. Which means they were kinda like an experiment for God.
But God is all-knowing, he basically set a trap on them knowing the outcome. He knew he was going to punish humanity even before he created the universe.
āJusr wait until I create these mofos, the ass whooping Iām gonna give themā¦ Fucking hell, I love working in mysterious waysā
But God is all-knowing, he basically set a trap on them knowing the outcome. He knew he was going to punish humanity even before he created the universe.
Genesis still has some remnants of when yahweh wasnāt triple-omni. E.g. when he comes into the garden of eden after they ate the fruit, he asks what have they done as if he didnāt know yet. So he likely isnāt omniscient in the lore yet. If we wanted to be charitable, heās just a sociopath here, and not a sadist that created a species already knowing heās gonna punish them forever
A lot of the early books come from a time before the church decided to make Abrahamic religions monotheistic. YHWH was once the Hebrew god of war; a god within a pantheon of others. In that context, it makes sense that the other gods would have been doing their own thing. Another good example is GEN 3:22.
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