In school, I bet you hear a lot of stories about monkeys turning into people, and life magically starting itself on Earth, and the whole universe being created by nobody from nothing. Well, that’s just silly, isn’t it? How can nothing create something?
Here’s what really happened!
Once upon a time, there was nothing. No world, no sun, no stars, no moon. There was just God. (Before you ask, He had made Himself, and had always been and always will be.)
One day (well, it wasn’t really a “day”, because God hadn’t invented those yet), God decided to create a world. So, He created a blob of material covered with water.
To go further, He needed to be able to see.
“Let there be light!” He cried, and POOF! There was light! God liked the light, and He divided it from the darkness. He named them Day and Night, and that was the first day. (Gen. 1:2-5)
On the second day, God made a “firmament”, the vault of the sky, which he called Heaven. He made it to divide the waters below the sky from the waters above the sky. (Gen. 1:6-8)
That’s right, there are waters above the sky! I bet your “science” teacher didn’t tell you that!
On the third day, God pulled all the water under the sky into one place, making the ocean. Then, the dry land appeared, on which He commanded plants and trees to spring forth. God thought these were pretty good, too. (Gen. 1:9-13)
On the fourth day, God put lights in the sky; a big light (the sun) for the day, a smaller light (moon) for the night, and a bunch of tiny stars which would tell people signs, seasons, days, and years. He made the sky into a calendar! (Gen. 1: 14-19)
Day Five, God decided to create some of the living animals — those of the sea and the air, like whales, fish, birds, and dolphins. He told them to reproduce and spread all over the Earth. (Gen. 1:20-23)
On the Sixth Day, God created land animals and insects and creepy-crawly things. He made cows, and lions, and dinosaurs, and bees, and worms, and unicorns, and bears. Lots of creatures! He also made humans!
He decided to make men and women in His image (that means that people look like God!), and told them that they could run the world and be in charge of it and the animals in it. He told them they could eat fruits and vegetables, and so could all the animals. That’s right, God made the first people and all the animals vegetarians, so there would be no violence in the world! (Gen. 1:24-31)
On the seventh day, God rested. This is why Sunday is to be a day of rest.
Since there was nobody to till the land, and God hadn’t yet created rain, He made a mist rise from the land to water all his plants. It must have been really humid! (Gen. 2:5-6)
What’s that? What about Adam and Eve?
Did you think they were the first people? Sorry. That’s not what the Bible says. Adam and Eve were the first Jews! Adam doesn’t arrive on the scene until after the Creation is complete. That’s our next story, about Adam, Eve, and Original Sin!
The bit about Adam and Eve being only the first Jews is incorrect. There are just two creation stories in Genesis, the first was Genesis 1:1-2:2. The second is of Adam and Eve and was Genesis 2:3-2:25. 2:4 specifically says “This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created.” 2:5 mentions “no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up” contradicting the third day, as does 2:6, in which “streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.” God creates “the man” — ha-adam in Hebrew, from ha-adama which means “the earth/ground, because in 2:7 “the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground” and then “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life,” often thought to be free will, self-awareness, or the soul.
There you go again, Evazan, “interpreting” God’s Word instead of reading it exactly as it is.
Rather than realizing that there are two separate Creation stories (one for the whole world, and one for Eden and Adam), you try to force the two stories to become one.
Remember, Evazan, when the Bible was written, it wasn’t split up into chapters and verses. That came thousands of years later (in the case of Genesis). The reference to “this [being] the generations of the heavens and the earth” refers to what came before (Chapter 1, Universe and Earth), not what comes after (Chapter 2, Eden and Adam). The introduction of the chapter division is what is confusing you.
If the Bible said what you say it says, it would contradict itself within the first two chapters! How ridiculous is that, to think the perfect Word of God could contradict itself in such an obvious way?
Evazan wrote:
“the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground” and then “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life,” often thought to be free will, self-awareness, or the soul.”
What is the purpose of free will if one does not yet know the difference between (have a knowledge of) good and evil?
How did Adam Eve know that it was right to obey God and wrong to disobey God regarding the Tree of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong when Adam and Eve did not yet know the difference between right and wrong?
You poor sinner, Jon, don’t you realise questioning God lines you up for the Eternal Fires of Hell itself?
Actually, Sunday wasn’t the day of rest. Most Christians don’t realize that Saturday is. Whenever they don’t honor the Sabbath day, SATURDAY, and keep it holy … they are breaking their ten commandments.
Otherwise, it’s accurate.
Haha, more hilarity from this website!
Mr Green, you are the worlds best comedian. The perfect word of “god” contradicts itself pretty much by itself. It doesn’t need our help.
Day 1: Day and Night
Day 4: The sun appears, which without, there is no day and night.
How can you people be so retarded?
your all dumb! Open a science textbook! -Peace ! (I would suggest, Biology: exploring the diversity of life Russel et al. as a starting point =) )
I meant to say You’re but in my state of rage at the lack of understanding of basic biological model I completely overlooked by rather pointless error.
Yes, Saturday is the seventh day. In fact a whole religion was created upon this fact – The Seventh Day Adventists.
By the way the penalty for working on Saturday, the Sabbath, is death. The Bible god once had a man killed for gathering sticks on Saturday. (Numbers 15:35) Boy is he strict!
Shepherds are for sheep,
Infidel