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My theory is that when fully understand the universe (maybe never) the meaning of Genesis will be clear. |
My theory is that it is the mythology of bronze age, nomadic herdsmen that someone wrote down. In fact, there is more than one mythology mixed together. One Bible comentary states that the first 5 books of the Bible are the "...complex joining of several historical traditions." Note that it is the traditions that are historical, not the mythology contained in those traditions. There are primarily four traditions that Bible scholars recognize: Yahwist, Elohist, Priestly, and Deuteronomic. At least the first two can be distinguished by how they refer to God. Yahweh or Elohim. And of course, as is clear from an analysis of the text, Genesis cannot be attributed to a single author. Genesis reflects at least the Yahwist (J), Elohist (E), and Priestly (P) traditions of oral mythology. These traditions are all intertwined in Genesis even to the extent that the narative becomes confused if it is interpreted as historical. For example, there are two different and conflicting stories of creation that cannot be reconciled. There are also the mixed recounts of Noah's story in which it isn't clear whether there were two of each kind or seven of some kinds, and whether that 7 was the total or whether it was seven pairs. Further, the story of Noah seems to have been derived from the myth of Utnapishtim from the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. It is accepted that Abraham came from Ur, a city in Sumer.
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Call me old fashion, but I think there was divine influence on the Bible. God wrote it through humans, but he did do it through humans. So the Bible might not have caught on the way he intended if he wrote something like "in the beginning God created matter and antimatter." See, what God did write though that he created light and darkness. Not that much of a jump.
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So, in your view, god is weak and imperfect and things don't turn out the way he wants them to. And you call a magical being like that god?