Genesis 8-11
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wolfbiblemoonThe flood clears up and Noah has lots of descendants...
* Apparently the flood story is actually two different stories merged together, badly. So it switches between the rain lasting 40 days or 150 days and Noah randomly sends a Raven out before the Dove and the Raven just flies about a bit. Not that it would make any more sense if that hadn't been the case!!
Oh and I don't know how the story of Noah's Ark is suitable as a story for children to adore, sure the idea of animals going two by two is nice but what about all the ones that are wiped out because of the sins of a few humans. Though I suppose scaring children into conforming is a big part of indoctrination.
* God doesn't seem to be particularly omnipotent, he puts a rainbow in the sky to mark the fact that he won't wipe all humans and animals out again and he says that it will remind him of that when he sees it as well.
* Far too much begatting, whoever wrote this is obsessed with pointless lineages.
* Tower of Babel in this section, supposedly the advent of diverse languages, despite the mention in a previous chapter of all the different tongues that are spoken on Earth.
* Apparently the flood story is actually two different stories merged together, badly. So it switches between the rain lasting 40 days or 150 days and Noah randomly sends a Raven out before the Dove and the Raven just flies about a bit. Not that it would make any more sense if that hadn't been the case!!
Oh and I don't know how the story of Noah's Ark is suitable as a story for children to adore, sure the idea of animals going two by two is nice but what about all the ones that are wiped out because of the sins of a few humans. Though I suppose scaring children into conforming is a big part of indoctrination.
* God doesn't seem to be particularly omnipotent, he puts a rainbow in the sky to mark the fact that he won't wipe all humans and animals out again and he says that it will remind him of that when he sees it as well.
* Far too much begatting, whoever wrote this is obsessed with pointless lineages.
* Tower of Babel in this section, supposedly the advent of diverse languages, despite the mention in a previous chapter of all the different tongues that are spoken on Earth.
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