Several Misunderstandings...

Submitted by Servant of Christ (United States), Oct 31, 2007 at 20:01

Dear S_of_Christ,

Sorry to say that the writers of the Bible innocently omitted the creation of Time, Day, Night and air because they were not intelligent enough that Day and Night are simultaneous with Solar System. (Now it is night for me here in India but in USA it is morning.) Bible God was a regional god pertaining to Middle east and he talked to Adam,Eve,Cain, Abel etc., of course in Hebrew.

Just because it is not stated directly in the first 2 chapters doesn't mean they were too stupid. Since you have not posted anything about earth's tectonic movements does not make you an idiot any more than they are. The matter was simply IRRELEVANT to Moses in the first two chapters since it has no pertinence to his message.

All of man would be experiencing on day and one night since they were created in Mesopotamia -_-. At this time there was no India.

"Cain, where is your brother, Abel?" God asked him.

"How should I know?" Cain asked, "Am I my brother's keeper?"

Cain never understood that brothers should watch out for one another and love one another. He was too filled with Satan's evil thoughts to show the kind of consideration that should exist between family members.

He had a conscience so he knew what was right and wrong.

"What have you done?" God asked sternly. "I know the violence you have done to your brother. Because of your cruel act, his blood has flowed into the ground. As punishment for your terrible sin, the ground that has tasted your brother's blood will no longer yield produce for you. You will become a vagabond on the earth, traveling about the land without anyplace to call home."

"My punishment is too great!" Cain complained. "Will you drive me away from my own land and from Your protection so that all who find me will hate me and kill me?"

"I'll see that no one kills you," God said, grieved that Cain showed no remorse for the murder of his brother, but thought instead only of his own safety.

To see that no one killed him, God set a sign on Cain. Just what that sign was, the Bible doesn't say. We do know that all who saw it knew that they mustn't harm the person who carried it.

At the time of Abel's Murder there were only three human beings in the World namely Adam,Eve,Cain apart from Abel. Cain has used all who find me. Why it is all and God has replied no one will kill you. See the absurdity of this dialogue the meaning of which is Adam and Eve will not kill you.

The absurdity is that you assume Adam and Eve are the only people on the earth. It is HEAVILY implied that there are other people. Adam, Eve, and Cain are recognized and named for their significance. There were other descendants of Adam and Eve at this time. "After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters." Genesis 5:4.

According to Hebrew tradition, Adam had 33 daughters and sons. Though I do not accept tradition as accurate, it's very clear that Adam and Eve had A LOT of children since God told them to multiply.

So it is crystal clear that Bible God is fraud ( He asks Cain about where is your brother and He like the non vegetarian sacrifice of Abel ) which shows that he is not omniscient and omnipotent.

Read what you just wrote above. See to it that you notice that GOD ANSWERS HIS OWN QUESTION. God asked Cain a question to get Cain to confess. It's no different from me asking my son "Where are the cookies?" when I just saw him snatch one out of the jar.

Then God had allowed Cain to have inrtercourse with his own sister ( may be far far younger than him, since the female class is totally neglected in the Bible). Why God has created such a degrading moral situation for having intercourse with Brothers and Sisters.

Possibly because brothers and sisters were the only relations people had at this point? BTW, you have just implied that there were other people besides Adam, Eve, and Cain.

At this point in time, there was no incest law (although it seems that Parent/child sexual intercourse was viewed very negatively). Man was still almost perfect and so it seems plausible that descendants of incestual marriages did not have defects as they would've now. By the time of Moses, God forbade the relationships for they harmed the children.

If your answer is for many primitive societies there was relation with Brother and Sister which shows you are considering tthe divine family of Adam,Eve,Abel,Seth as a Society not four first human beings.

That's not my answer :D.

(Society is a far wider concept with at least 100s of members, therwise the group does not become society.)

All are bla,bla,bla. Even Hell dwellers will not have intercourse with their own sisters. So I think our Biblical God has to be sent to his own Eternal Hell first for craeting all these indecent stories for the Humankind.

You consider them indecent by your own relative moral standard?

Further I repeat the same question. Did Adam,Eve, Can,Abel,Seth had navel button.If they had means God also had since God Created everyone as his own image.Could Adam and Eve create the navel button for their children?

LoL, I see you are a bit confused. God is spirit and so the image of God is his MORAL IMAGE (the ability to do what's right).

To make a wrong story right it is very difficult. Bible stories are all Bla,Bla,Bla.........without logic and reasoning. If part of the bible is wrong it can assume that whole thing can be wrognly written by wrong peoples.

You have yet to prove any of it's wrong. However, some of your understanding of it is wrong.

Bye,See you later,

Regards,

Shri Devi.

God Bless

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