18.10.23 Quick One

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We are now doing Genesis - which is surprisingly long. 

How and why was the Old Testament included in the Bible? 

My FB post about how mad it is...

We are only on Chapter 18 of Genesis. So far we have had...

1. Expulsion of humans from paradise

2. First murder, swiftly followed by a lot and I mean a LOT of murder. Side note: angels have nepo babies with human women. 

3. The Ultimate Reboot - The Flood - reason human beings are rubbish, God regrets having put them on the planet. Noah saves the planet but discovers wine and gets pissed. His son Ham sees him naked. Noah curses him.

3. God destroying the Tower of Babel and a truly catastrophic explanation for the presence of diversity

4. Many wars - including what appears to be a resource pinch where Abram is forced to leave Ur. But don't worry says God, I will make u very rich and have lots of descendants... as many as dust on this Earth.

5. War again - after he leaves Ur and settles in Mamre

6. Sarah his wife suggests he has a son with her handmaid, which he does. Later God says you will have a son. Both Abraham and Sarah laugh at God because they are both 99 years old.

7. Destruction of Sodom and Gemmorah - reason seems to be because they have some grevious sin - undetermined, but it would appear that they also tried to rape the messengers of God. In return Lot offers the possible rapists his virgin daughters. Lot escapes the fall of Sodom and Gemmorah with his daughters who, when hiding out with him decide to get him drunk and have sex with him so they can have his babies. This is the origin story of the Moabites and Ammonites. 

Yes, 18 Chapters.

How this is a Holy Book is still a mystery.

To be clear I will only be telling the highly sanitised version of this story to the children.

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I asked google why was the Old Testament included in the Bible? The answer I got was because the first Christians were Jews and therefore the Old Testament was meaningful for them.

But the New Testament stands up perfectly well without the Old. Did the Christians still need an origin story which I guess is what the Old Testament is, esply Genesis, but what an origin story! And from a completely different culture!

Most mythic systems do not have God getting so heavily involved in human affairs. The crap we visit on each other has nothing to do with what God's intentions are for us. The Gods do their own thing, we ask them for assistance, mostly by sacrificing stuff to them, a phenomenon which is also required in Judaism, to the point where God sacrifices his only son, apparently.

If you think about it, humanity is so incorrigible that GOD, after attempting to destroy it several times, teaching them several lessons by having them be enslaved, harrassed, rebooted, finally gives up and says, ok, it is so hopeless that *I* will now have to sacrifice YOU, my SON. Go down there and DIE for their fuck ups. In the meantime can you also please tell them that I love them very very very much.

This is without doubt the most EXTREME Hail Mary, literally, in all of mythic literature. And guess what??? It still hasn't worked. I wonder what the next plan He's cooking up is...

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