Creating the World, 6 Days. Understanding Genesis? 6 Lifetimes.

The first book of the bible is Genesis. I read a translation of it online. Here is the part about god creating everything in six days and my response to it. The bible is so filled with generalities that it appears to be wide open to interpretation of every sort. This is only the 1st book! I’m already lost!

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Genesis was written by who? Already it’s 2nd hand. It doesn’t say, I created the heaven and earth. The earth was without form and void – but the spirit of god moved upon the face of the waters. What waters? So, the earth already existed I guess. With water. Pooled water if he moved upon the face of it.

God made light. He saw the light, that it was good? Good how? Morally good? Isn’t that the way the bible talks about the word good – as morally good, righteous? How can light be righteous?

God divided the light from the darkness… he made them a dichotomy. The evening and the morning were the first day. So, the day starts at 6pm – the start of evening, and the end of the day is the morning? Or, afternoon?

There are so many thngs open to interpretation here that it’s like a child’s story. Factually it’s saying almost nothing, leaving the “how”, the physical or magical ‘how’ up to anyone’s imagination.

Moving on.

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

Huh? He made heaven in the midst of the waters. It divided the waters from the waters? Land I guess is firmament then, yes? Wait a second, no, the firmament is heaven. Heaven at first divided the waters – it was solid? Then it changed into something that exists above the waters. It is only above the water? Or, the land of the earth too?

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

This is interesting. It says god LET the waters under the heaven gather together in one place. Let – meaning, it was something that was already a potential, he just removed whatever block there was to it happening on it’s own anyway. Like, letting evolution or some other process go forward as it would have anyway.

He says here LET the dry land appear. Appear visually or materially? I think from the first section where the writers says the earth was void and without form – that it already existed. Or, what is the earth then? It’s material. Rocks? Dirt? Something. But here he says LET it appear… so maybe it’s coming up over the top of the water. Origianlly the earth was a ball of water with a solid core? Who knows, and up to your interpretation.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Again – LET the earth bring forth grass. As if it was already in the process… or events had occurred that set the process in motion already… and he was undoing some block.

God saw the seeds that made plants were good. Good how? Good to die to feed other living things that will come later? Good to smell? Good to taste? Good visually to look at? Good how?

And the evening and the morning were the third day.

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

HUH? He already made light. In fact, there was already an evening and a morning which he called the first through third days. This is so screwed up already that a child could question it. What is evening and morning if it isn’t in reference to the sun? What is it? The sun must have existed from day 1. Here the writer is talking about it being created on the fourth day!

God made two great lights? One to rule the day, the lesser one to rule the night? Darkness rules the night on this earth. There is no lesser light. Unless it’s referring to the moon – which is there sometimes, absent other nights. The moon is not another light either – it’s just a reflection of the first light – that is there all the time – the sun.

And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

So the birds can fly into heaven? So the heaven is nothing more than the air above the water. It is not outside our atmosphere. It is the air.

God saw that the whales and every living thing that moves in the water was GOOD. Good how? Is it good when a whale eats thousands of fish in a gulp, digesting them with it’s stomach acid as they slowly die? Is it good when the barracuda eats the octopus – tearing it apart with vicious tears of it’s razor sharp teeth? Is it good that the only way the living things in the ocean survive is through eating other living or dead things in that ocean? What is GOOD? Good how? Nice to look at? Fun to look at?

And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Again, in creating the creatures of the land – what is good about it? They fight with each other over territory, food, sex partners. They tear each other up with teeth. Snakes swallow baby birds, lizards, bugs of every sort, frogs, salamanders, other snakes, and people to stay alive themselves. Is that good? What’s good about it? Good how?

God is male and female – not just man. Not just woman. In the image of himself, male and female. God is a hermaphrodite. Pity those that discrimate in look or action on hermaphrodites.

God said, “replenish the earth”? Was it once inhabited before? RE-plenish means to fill ‘again’. Implying it was filled with people once before. Or animals? Dinosaurs?

God sets up this outrageous power structure – saying – subdue the earth! Have dominion over every living thing that moves over it! Jesus. I noticed that the author didn’t say that this was good. Nobody could agree that power differentials between living things is a good thing as it causes much pain for those that are lower on the chain. In setting up differences in power between man and animal, it carries over to man vs. man. Man continually subjugates other men beneath him and uses for his own selfishness.

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

It’s as if the author was saying that god meant only the green plants to be eaten. Uhm, somebody better tell the animals as they’re eating each other. Humans saw that and decided – ah, we have dominion over everything that’s living so can eat it too?

This entire story is bizarre. It’s incomplete. It’s general enough that a kid with an 80 IQ could have written it. It’s ridiculous to think even for a second that the author had any kind of insight as to what a creator of all this was doing if this is all he/she came up with. What of gravity? Radiation? Selfishness? Psychology? Pain-pleasure paradigm? Dinosaurs? A whale was nothing compared to a brontosaurus. We have skeletons – we know they existed – why not mention dinosaurs?

And, why does the author begin many sentences with the word and ?