Gen. 1 -6

Okay, that whole opening HAS GOT to go!

ha ha, not really. But it is interesting that someone felt the need to say the words "in the begininng" in the beginning. I mean, isn't that self-evident? Doesn't that go without saying? Apparently not. When else would you begin a story like this?


First of all,
I have just read the first few pages....

Of the bible.

Of the word

Of God.

… okay, maybe not exactly.
How can the Bible POSSIBLY be the word of God, verbatim?

How? Does God speak English? Does God say “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed...” (Gen. 1:11)
No way! A dude wrote that down. A fancy shmancy, pantaloon-wearing, frilly cravate-sportin’, twice-a-year bathing sissy-mary from the Middle Ages... or thereabouts.
Which is fine. That is how it is, was and ever shall be.
Shakespeare, etc.
King James—

A little history-- I will research that, don't worry.

And who decides what is IN the Bible, and what is NOT? I will look into that, too.
Relax, I won’t get too “Da Vinci Code”-esque, but really think about it. Why is there a story about Purim (Queen Esther vs. Haman) but not a story about Hanukkah (The Maccabees/Hasmoneans)?
Plenty of people are who are much smarter than I am have expounded on that stuff, so I won’t waste your time. But, suffice it to say, someone made those decisions, and it sure as shit wasn’t God, or Buddha or Allah, or Jesus.
Or you or me.
Someone else. And when you read these words, you’re reading a story. Might be factual, might not. That doesn’t even matter. It’s a story… but it’s not the whole story.
Even if you believe Noah literally took two of every species on a big boat for a month and half… that can’t be the whole story. Someone—or some people—decided to include this anecdote, ignore THAT, focus on THIS, casually mention THAT.
You want an example?

Creation
Adam and Eve
Garden of Eden
Cain and Abel
Noah
Flood
Have I missed anything from the first 8 chapters of Genesis? Did I hit the bullet points?

What about Genesis 6:4—
“There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, and the same became mighty men which were of old, men or renown.”
Okay… what the hell?? When did THIS happen? What the hell does it mean?
Sounds a lot like Greek mythology, if you ask me. Wasn’t Hercules the offspring of a human lady and a god? What the hell is this doing in the monotheistic, Judeo-Christian manifesto?
The problem with commentators is that I never know whether to take them at their word—
Are they truly trying to make sense of this? Or are they just trying to explain away anything that might shake our faith? OR both?
Make up your own mind.