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Man is evil?
This is one of the many places where the bible and I part ways. First man is evil because God's sons took Man's daughters as wives. God finds a righteous man in Noah. One would think the offspring of…
Created 4 months ago
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The raven kept flying
Is there some symbolism for the raven? The raven gets sent out and stays out. The dove comes back
Created 4 months ago
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God forgot Noah
God needed to remember Noah? Was God not watching his righteous man and his family through the storm that God himself had put forth? Did God open the doors of heaven, let the waters in and go away somewhere…
Created 4 months ago
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More than one God
Why does God say "us"? How can man be in the image and likeness of many Gods?
Created 5 months ago
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At least one righteous
Noah was righteous in the face the bible stating there is none righteous.
Created 5 months ago
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Evil man
I'm sure some Christians believe this of the modern human race. I cannot agree with this verse.
Created 5 months ago
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Sons of God / Daughters of Men
If marriage is an institution set up by God, how could he sanction these marriages between the Sons of God and the Daughters of Men? God let it happen.
Created 5 months ago
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Mere mortals
Clearly God doesn't want to deal with humans because we are mortal. So his solution is to increase human mortality by putting a tighter limit on the human lifespan. And make Man more mortal. God was also…
Created 5 months ago
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Vengeance is the Lord's
Is seems that this is God's first display of vengeance. God seems to love vengeance, because the reason for it could very well have been prevented.
Created 5 months ago
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Death?
Some say death is out of the presence of God. While that is impossible with the concept of omnipresence, Cain is clearly stating that he will be outside of the presence of God. He then fears that he will…
Created 5 months ago
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Omnipresence
Cain is the fourth person in the bible to not notice that God is omnipresent. And God is again showing that he is not omniscient.
Created 5 months ago
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What is right?
How come God doesn't take this opportunity to set Cain straght? How come he doesn't tell Cain what the right thing to do is? We can see that they both understood that they had to sacrifice, but where…
Created 5 months ago
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Eternal life NOT!
God set up guards to prevent man from obtaining eternal life.
Created 5 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 [Public] Notes
2012-01-13
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Vindicated serpent
This verse is confirming that the serpent wasn't lying in verse 5. The question remains. Why is the serpent always taught as lying to Eve? Also there seems to be an act of fear here. God points out that…
Created 5 months ago
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More punishment?
The punishment was to be "death" (Genesis 2:17). Why is there more? What can you put on top of death to make it worse?
Created 5 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created 10 Highlights
2012-01-13
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Where are you
How come an all knowing God does not know where his children are?
Created 5 months ago
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How does she know what's good?
Now this verse is saying that "she saw that the fruit was GOOD for food". But she can't know that yet. She didn't eat the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil yet. This verse also points out that Adam…
Created 5 months ago
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lying serpent?
Is this the verse where the serpent is supposedly lying? How does one know he's lying?
Created 5 months ago
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talking serpent
Serpents can't talk. This serpent was craftier than the beasts of the field. That clues me in that it was another animal. Why would another animal want to use its gift of speech to persuade man to disobey…
Created 5 months ago
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If you eat from the tree, then you will die
This is the verse where God commands the man not to eat of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. If he does then he will die. Is this fruit poison? Is death a punishment? How can death be a punishment?…
Created 5 months ago
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Earned a Badge — Created First [Public] Note
2012-01-12
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East of where?
The bible says that God planted a garden in the east. Where is the starting point of this story? What is west of Eden where this story truly begins? Or is "East" a symbol for something else?
Created 5 months ago