A Bible study of a Thomas; Genesis 2: 1-25

Genesis 2

New International Version (NIV)

2 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. 2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

Are they, really? Well the earth isn’t completed if humans are on it changing it to this day. Unless the text meant that god had finished with it, as he could do no more, so therefore he has no power now? Work, he calls that work if that’s his work I wouldn’t mind taking his job, as it’s simple you only have to think about a new world for it to be created and you could bet that my worlds sciences would be faultless against my religious texts.

Adam and Eve

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.

Well we’ve just had the creation of the earth and isn’t it hilarious how people used to believe the most preposterous stuff... what some people still do believe the fore mentioned stuff, someone kill me now please.

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, 

Hang on a minute I thought that he had created life, plant  life, on the surface of earth earlier in the story just after he said “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” didn’t he? Or are there two separate gods or maybe a two different earths? Anyway if it is the same earth we have arrived at the 3^rd day.

6 but streams[b]came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. 

Ok now he’s doing a little spot of gardening to water the surface of earth the surface of earth that had just been created between two layers of water, which really should be wet enough; never mentioned on any of the 6 days creation.

7 Then the Lord God formed a man[c] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

But within the previous chapter the text says that he created them, both male and female, at the same time as you’re the almighty god and you can do whatever you want couldn’t he so now it’s the 4^th day?

8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. 

Now the east will be Asia as that is what is east if you look as the world as it is on the maps, well your hardly going to say that it is in Manchester or America as the early authors of the bible didn’t know that America existed they probably though that if you went far enough east you’d fall off the edge? Also never mentioned in the 6 days of creation,

9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Now the second chapter of genesis wasn’t written by the same author as the first this is obvious as in the first it says “God” did something now God has been elevated to “Our Lord God” Now it could be that in the early days of the church they had many separate editions of this certain chapter and they got them mixed up and muddled up in translation?

10 A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. 

A river watering? That’s not what river do they flow collecting the water not giving it back to the land along its route towards a body of water e.g. a sea. This river separated into 4 head waters, what is a headwater? Well it’s a tributary and a tributary is a small stream that flows into a lager river.

11 The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin[d]and onyx are also there.) 

Pishon? Halvilah? Where there is gold, what is so good about gold, that was actually known about during the time that the bible was written and they probably thought of it as a “pretty” substance? Onyx is the rock/stone that looks “pretty” seems like they have just taken two “pretty” looking substances and put them in the place which looks like the Norse word Valhalla, the final resting place of warriors that died in combat.

13 The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.[e] 14 The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

Hang on second you said that there was four headwaters (tributaries) that fed into one river on this earth but now you have stated that there’s four rivers, I know that it’s only semantics that I am really critiquing at this point but this is the bible shouldn’t these tales be the words of a creature that is on a separate level of existence to us that knows how we think he should have at least dictated a flawless account.

15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 

Now god wants “the man”, Adam, to look after the earth that god has just created now two things one what about Lilith and two how is he going to increase in number without a female?

16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 

So he has got all trees in the garden to eat from.

17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

Why did you put that tree in the first place if you know what’s going to happen if you do that as for gods own sanity if you know what’s going to happen if you put a tree and your saying that you could eat from any tree but not that one that is enough to drive anyone insane, and by saying you’ll certainly die how is the man supposed to know what dying and death is if nothing has died yet?

18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

But he has already had one female companion.

19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 

20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.

But for Adam[f] no suitable helper was found.

What about a dog some say that its man’s best friend?

21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs[g] and then closed up the place with flesh. 

Now god is drugging his servant and performing unsolicited surgery.

22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib[h] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

23 The man said,

“This is now bone of my bones
    and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called ‘woman,’
    for she was taken out of man.”

The man is naming what the woman is to be called not god, worrying as the man thinks of himself as god.

24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Why must a man when he leaves his mother and father and become united with his wife how one sided is that statement? It has shown that the bible was one constructed by men to keep women submissive to the male, authority figure.

25 Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
Why, should they? They have been hand crafted by the almighty in his own image, or so the Bible tells us. Now the thing about this passage from the bible that annoys me most is the assertion that the natural human form is shameful, Which I have several problems with one should be the fact that as we have lost our hair over the millennia’s that we have spent evolving from our primate ancestors into the primates we see today, we have lost the majority of our body hair and just our natural bodies became more suited to the conditions that where around the equator/where we lived those many thousands of years ago but back then all of us would have probably been black as the harshness of the light made it so unlike the drawings of Adam and Eve the first humans probably weren’t white and then as the human virus spread out across the world towards cooler pastures clothing became essential for the winter within those places and just give it 40,000 years or so, and here we are. The 40,000 isn’t an estimate or anything scientific I just picked 40,000 as like that number,

But now I’m thinking a bit more about in gods own image but what is gods image? I could show you a whole load of artists impressions of what whoever is doing the painting thinks him out to be but I am thinking that I should take the bibles words exactly on this topic as it said earlier on in the book that god was a spirit. But then a Roman Catholic friend of mine, but she prefers to think of herself as a plain Catholic without the Roman in front, said to me that it was about his morality and stuff like that I think that I’m remembering what she told me correctly, as I believe that I agreed that that made some form of sense but I don’t think that we were thinking of the same examples, as I was thinking about the Nazis with they’re slogan “Gott Mit Uns” (God With Us) printed on their belts, but I bet she was thinking about her little congregation.