Everything Wrong With Genesis 1 in the Bible

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[@pianoofpain8347]

In storytelling, the main issue with creating a character who's supposed to be a genius, is that the character can only be as smart as the person writing them.

[@Sammie551]

Yeah, imagine all the failed plans to stop humanity from sinning Floods, bloody sacrifice, fimines

[@sereanaduwai8313]

You have absolutely nailed it . A very simple statement that speaks volumes! The human mind at least can imagine things and can that run wild.

[@thejuiceking2219]

that's why when i write stories i make sure all the characters are idiots

[@FreedomYT1986]

Correct. Another example of that is this bullshitter. His bullshit is as bullshit as his bullshit lack of understanding

[@CurrentResident-dh1qt]

@@Sammie551 That is to clean out you who f41led the test.

[@ciri151]

''God saw that the light was good'' So this implies that he didn't know what he was doing before creating light lol

[@hectorhernandez215]

Inteligent atheists are fools trying to catch God out of context....

[@CurrentResident-dh1qt]

Good Is What Is Rightly Ordered.

[@juliee593]

Once, I went to read the bible out of curiosity. I started with the very very beginning, genesis. I didn't go very far due to the sheer absurdity of the story. I remember stopping after the story of a character who got drunk and fell asleep naked in a tent, then was found by one of his kids, and then somehow the kid was punished for finding him in that unflattering position that he put himself in. After that I lost quite a bit of respect for whoever bases their life decisions on this book.

[@dayofthejackyl]

@@aristola4116well that makes it even worse.

[@chiluditospro2]

​@@aristola4116listen all due respect for whatever you wanna believe, but if we're gonna be interpreting every single phrase we might as well not read anything. What damn joke, btw... Canaan already existed before Ham saw Noah's nakedness. And the book absolutely *never* says that Noah was with or had Sex with his wife. Why would someone randomly add that he just got laid? The book literally says he got drunk with wine until he got wasted, in his drunk Ness he got naked and then was seen by Canaan. Nothing about sex or else.

[@chiluditospro2]

I think you couldn't have described my experience better. I had promised myself I'd listen to the Bible while working, just for sake of reading it at least once in my life and 2 hours ago I started listening to it (was raised catholic but didn't believe nor practiced it since very young, I had trouble believing anything). And you just said exactly what happened to me, I just couldn't habdle the stupidity. It sound like a fantasy story written by a 9yo srsly. After I seized to be offended by the realization of how I had just wasted 2 hours of my life, I realized that people back then were very ignorant and their vision of things came from not knowing. Ie: how God created the universe (completely earth centric as if the earth is the beginning of everything). Etc It's such a waste of my time, there's no way I'm finishing it. There are tons of books that could actually teach me something or at least be fun... Star wars is waaay better fantasy.

[@juliee593]

@@aristola4116 why would "saw his father's nakedness" actually mean "have sex with his own mother"? If that's a euphemism, it's a terrible one. I don't believe you because that simply does not make sense. Unless we somehow have other examples of ancient literature where such a phrase means "having sex with your mother". But I highly doubt that, because in any other piece of literature, when a euphemism is used, first of all you can usually decipher what it means (but in that case it sounds completely nonsensical), and it always makes sense in context. But in this case it doesn't at all, because the next part of the story is that the drunk guy's other children come to cover him up because he was naked. How do you explain that? How does that relate to the son supposedly fucking his mother? It very much sounds like the passage was meant to be taken literally, because if we add in your euphemism the story becomes incoherent. My friend, it sounds like your teacher told you "it's a euphemism" as an excuse to completely change the meaning of the story to make it make more sense to you so you wouldn't doubt the bible. Have you heard the phrase "thought-terminating cliché"? I encourage you to look out for those things. They are phrases that are designed to make you stop thinking for yourself when your logical thoughts take you away from the doctrine being imposed upon you. Phrases like "god works in mysterious ways". In your case, it sounds like "it's a euphemism" was one of those tactics used to make you stop questioning. And it's not right. You should be free to fully explore your own thoughts on any topic you want. Edit: here is the story, for reference. It doesn't make more sense if we add in Noah's wife having sex with her son. In fact it makes much less sense. And Noah's wife was mentioned in other parts of the story. Surely, if your interpretation is right and the bible if the perfect word of god, then it would be understandable to all, and it would at least mention Noah's wife in the story so we would know she's involved. Also, I did get something wrong. It's not even Noah's son who gets punished. It's his grandson who didn't do anything wrong. Do you really want to get your sense of justice from this book? Genesis 9 New International Version The Sons of Noah 18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) 19 These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the whole earth. 20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father’s naked body. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father naked. 24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said, “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers.” 26 He also said, “Praise be to the Lord, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem. 27 May God extend Japheth’s[b] territory; may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be the slave of Japheth.”

[@chiluditospro2]

@@juliee593 exactly, any human with capacity for logic saw that as b's... This is just further proof that these people will do literally *anything* to make things work with their fairytale.

[@heck75nj]

..and then God saw that all his creation was not really that good...and flooded the earth and killed everybody and everything ...what a psychopath 😐

[@nickstoli]

Every culture has a religion. And yet every religion is/was different. It's almost like humans had to create religion to deal with the universal fear of death.

[@MikeAndNary]

Lol, ya think?

[@boterlettersukkel]

"every culture has"?? Oops make that "had".

[@mchcdo9281]

@@boterlettersukkel why had?

[@boterlettersukkel]

@@mchcdo9281 The Netherland has more than 60% atheists. Religion isn't a thing here anymore. Only in a few areas it is still a thing but most of us over here have left the BS and mindcontroll behind us.

[@Wistful77]

Thank god I'm not religious. 😆

[@AndJusticeForMe]

It’s very sad that so many people’s development has been arrested because of religion.

[@foreigner9012]

Isaac Newton

[@ericdiaz1719]

Galileo

[@jacksonrelaxin3425]

Kinda sad to see all those heart attacks from the “life saving vaccine” too. Sigh.

[@RobespierreThePoof]

I've been teaching in colleges at all levels for many years now. From ivy League to community colleges with open enrollment. You would be surprised just how many people are not capable of getting very far with critical reasoning skills and knowledge acquisition. I needed to adjust my expectations a couple times. We all have a very strong distorting bias regarding what we consider to be the normal range of human intelligence. No one can fathom what it is like to have an intellect substantially higher than their own. But it also works the other way around. None of us can imagine what it is like to inhabit the mind of someone with a significantly lower intelligence than our own. This is why both true intellectual disability and true genius can be extremely socially isolating. My point: it isn't necessarily religion stunting development. We don't like to say it out loud, but some people really are simply "stunted.". The question for the rest of us is if we are willing to let them be manipulated, used and deceived.

[@user-hy1mh8bu2u]

It's very sad people are deceived by satan, Oh yeah you don't believe in him so you are ok:)

[@davidn.211]

"In The Beginning, Man Created God"

[@deadnuttsfosho]

FOSHO

[@MontviewBlvdBabiez]

💯

[@mathsdebater231]

Fax

[@hosh1313]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGXbeJV-aZyUb68

[@mathsdebater231]

@@hosh1313 god not real and none of ur religions are right

[@imax3d539]

After reading the book of Genesis alone, sometimes I worry about our future as a species. The fact that there are people who literally believe this to be science and historical is mind boggling to me.

[@carlorivera3035]

Genesis is credible. Even the first sentence shows how scientific it is. It said the heaven was created first then the earth. Scientists say the universe is older than the earth.

[@imax3d539]

@@carlorivera3035 😁 Maybe one day....

[@carlorivera3035]

@@imax3d539 Science is a new kid in town which has been on a trial-and-error mode in arriving at the truth. Still it came to the right conclusion about the order of creation, the heavens first and then the earth, the earth's being suspended in space, etc., things that were already written in the bible.

[@imax3d539]

@@carlorivera3035 entire book of Genesis is plagiarized. Moses never existed. You're welcome to go out and prove me wrong 🤷

[@Sharon-fw9qw]

@@carlorivera3035 IT IS!!!!!!

[@doctorshell7118]

It’s almost like this was written by primitive humans who existed long before the scientific method....

[@sparkyy0007]

Nothing at all wrong with the scientific method, unless the answers are limited to materialism. Keep in mind the imaginations of scientists have been wrong about 99.9999 % of the time, whats left is called engineering.

[@osaomoragbon7852]

I would argue that the scientific method predates the Bible. Intelligent life have being using scientific method before they knew it was the scientific method.

[@sparkyy0007]

@@osaomoragbon7852 Even toddlers use the scientific method, that's how they learn.

[@EileenMKeyes]

@@sparkyy0007 If even toddlers learn, then why are there so many adult humans who don't?

[@sparkyy0007]

@@EileenMKeyes Open vs closed minds....

[@leeretaschen231]

It’s almost as if the whole thing was written by primitive people with a limited understanding of their environment making guesses about how it all came about.

[@Drums-ve8on]

Almost? That is exactly what it is! And they weren’t even very good guessers.

[@equinox2584]

@@Drums-ve8on That is all of religion, it has always been a way to explain the unexplainable but now we can explain these things.

[@benl6616]

@@equinox2584 dude that is exactly my thoughts, like I’m not kidding exactly word for word pretty much

[@joseluisalcantarasanchez269]

The interesting thing about Genesis 1 is that it relates things happening in the same order science says it happened. For example: at first the whole planet was covered in water; life started in the waters; life first in the waters, then on land; first vegetation, then animals. So the conclusion must be: science is also a fairy tale.

[@leeretaschen231]

@@joseluisalcantarasanchez269 is that a fact? So the earth and the day/night cycle came into existence before the sun? Very interesting theory you’ve got there.

[@neiljohnson7914]

there are people who literally think the bible should be taken literally

[@brianbrady4496]

And Christians say this all happened 6000 years ago... 😂

[@kijekuyo9494]

I suppose if someone were to ask why God didn't just make a billion humans at one time, rather than only two, a believer would answer, "God works in mysterious ways."

[@wdbible129]

why would he make a billion. what if he made a billion males and no females visa versa

[@cfltheman]

It was so that no one group could claim superior ancestry and everyone came from the same people. That was what I read from an apologetic source ignoring the "chosen people" thing.

[@reypolancos8891]

Owws..

[@wdbible129]

@Iri5 B You wouldnt be alive if it werent for incest. It was the only game in town. And its also against the law when men multiply alot under the Law God gives the nation of Israel.

[@alamunez]

Jacob Watson - and god only likes a little bit of incest. :)

[@cyberjism]

if In The Beginning is replaced by Once Upon A Time it puts everything that follows into its proper perspective.

[@cyberjism]

@BYJOB it does make for a really good read as science fiction and fantasy.

[@jilliansmith7123]

Genius Expert: are you sure it's the way you say it is? Or do you think "most females" (because we all know you know so very many females so very well) just dislike some men because they're stupid, nasty, abusive, impecunious, cheap, and stinky? Nice to know so much about so many; or are you one of those shallow women?

[@jilliansmith7123]

ByJOB: Cause and effect isn't what you think it is. Creationism is the farthest thing from scientific. Creation science is an oxymoron, two words that literally mean opposite things. You may be too smart for what you think right now. Maybe you could do better and honor your own mind and life a little more?

[@willyappel7722]

If you wait one more billion years every lifeform can turn into every other lifeform. Compare that to God can do everything and think again about how science has a solution for everything.

[@rajiphilips5937]

The opening statement in the Bible, "In the Beginning" is loaded with tonnes of meaning. It owns up to a Wise creator, not like an abstract phrase like, "once upon a time," which is just a vogue imagination.

[@noonyakaleka2098]

Oct 16, 2019 - May 25, 2024: 4 years, 7 months, and 9 days to get through the whole bible and point out the flaws you see. That was a commitment.

[@user-mv8it4vi6j]

The first religion began when the first con artist met the first fool

[@gaminggeckos4388]

6:18 Also, important detail: The moon is not tied to night! The moon revolves around the earth independently of the earth's revolution around the sun. In other words, the moon is in the sky during the day just as frequently as in the night!

[@MichaelMyers66793]

Good point

[@arceusthomas2447]

Yes true it just said the moon was created to provide light at night

[@jaywalker1812]

Unfortunately, this youtuber still doesn't understand the story in Gen 1 thru 8. It's far more absurd than reported, due to people not bothering to read and understand a clueless ancient perspective. The first light created is a backlight, over the top water. The blue sky is water. They did not understand atmospheric scattering of blue light. So it is possible to have 3 days prior to the creation of the Sun, if you buy into the idea that the blue sky is day, and that blueness rotates around earth.

[@thaddeusopara5447]

Okay but guess what, it ONLY gives it's light in the NIGHT!

[@KeizerSosebee]

@@thaddeusopara5447 the moon doesn't produce light tho

[@Edwinvet420]

"It took four days to get the actual first day"

[@peachykeenJL]

It might have been a Sunday.

[@ikenergy]

Incorrect. It did NOT take a process of 4 days to create the sun, moon and stars. Rather they were simply created on day 4. Just FYI For an all powerful supremely intelligent being, he could as easily have chosen to create the whole universe in a single instance. The reason why God created in 6 days and rested on the seventh is to give the pattern of a 7 day week. That is the origin of our 7 day week in cultures all over the world!

[@ikenergy]

Also a day is defined in Genesis as period of darkness (erev -could mean high entropy, disorder) and light (boker - could mean low entropy, order). Each period represent an input of information into the system.

[@Edwinvet420]

@@ikenergy thanx for the info

[@Edwinvet420]

@RUKMINI TALUKDER I repeated something funny the guy said in the video. It’s not sarcasm it’s just funny.

[@allenanderson4911]

The reality is way more astonishing than the myth. The universe is totally mind blowing! There was a time when mythology was the only form of literature. Obviously this story belongs to that era.

[@Mr.unpronounceable]

He created light without sun😂

[@thecuzinerikshow4790]

He’s God he can do that

[@jdmacdad5418]

I'm an atheist, but, I'm honestly interested in reading the Old and New Testament front to back to fully understand where Christians come from, and see where people pick and choose their inspiration.

[@alexcayarga9339]

So am I , I sought out to do the same thing 2 months ago and I am 630 pages in !

[@lamb8343]

Lol it doesn’t work that way! If you want to know. Then you have to not only read but also do everything you can to live life the way God commanded. Love, forgive, and give. Follow the commandments to the best of your ability. Never giving up no matter how bitter the world can be and no matter how bitter the world can make you. It’s a life long pursuit. The Bible isn’t a book of answers. It’s a book of truths. Translating the Bible isn’t a matter of reading it from front to back. It’s a matter of reading and going forth to live your life. The truths of the Bible come to you in tandom with living the words of the Bible. If you are going to “read” it. Id suggest also attempting to understand it. Which takes an entire lifetime and a realization that you will honestly never truly know until the day you die. Matthew 13:13 Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. 13:14 In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says, ‘You will keep on hearing, but will not understand; You will keep on seeing, but will not perceive.

[@imageofsin]

@@lamb8343 good job writing all that out on a page of atheists. you're completely fricken moronic. and now its on display. get out of here, breeder

[@elipena7349]

Yes, do it plz

[@namso349]

@Joseph Davis please do read the noble Quran too. Quran is the final revelation from God. Earlier ones were Taurat sent to Moses, Zabur to David and Injil to Jesus. Quran was sent to Muhammad and all the people during his time and after him for guidance.

[@user-eo5en5tm6h]

I'm surprised you didn't mention something obvious. The fact that language is a human-made thing, yet it reads that god named the light "day" and the darkness "night" before we even existed.

[@Wistful77]

First, he invented Hebrew. 😆 and those words can be switched around and not mean what they do in English. It's the best kind of semantics. And becomes the basis for a lot of apologetics. In spite of Moses' fantasy, it wasn't written in stone. Rock gliss. 🎸

[@Wistful77]

How many planets do you think are out there? And just how does God manifest itself in YOUR life?

[@Wistful77]

@Maikel van Dijk - KJV Wandering stars? Haha. The rest is totally convincing. To You.

[@Wistful77]

@Maikel van Dijk - KJV hahaha that was predictable. Every last nuance seems plagiarized from a Steven Anderson sermon. Hmmph.

[@Wistful77]

@Maikel van Dijk - KJV [applause] 👏 You must be very happy with your superiority. I'm very happy to be of service to a former "atheist" turned gnostic theist to allow you the opportunity to shine so brightly in KZbin comments! Wooeeee you must be high up on God's list. Take a bow for his glory.

[@jasonb7870]

I asked the same question why God put the tree there if he didn't want want them to eat it

[@Tjstube32]

Billions and Billions of stars is an incredibly underestimation of how many there are 😂

[@gijoeret]

Everyone should know that god was talking to Jeffery.

[@almustaphaalshahid9106]

It was a very dark matter.

[@hakureikura9052]

@@almustaphaalshahid9106 wasn't that 2525 years ago?

[@ikennaonyegbule8617]

I died. Lololol

[@almustaphaalshahid9106]

@@hakureikura9052 this has become an animated discussion.

[@glebeboi]

@@ikennaonyegbule8617 - good to see that you didn't take it seriously as some do religion & do so literally.

[@bradleywilliams1323]

I just left the Jehovah's Witness organization with my wife 3 weeks ago. We are trying to find out what's true to us. I appreciate your videos so much, I've learned a lot and I've learned to actual reason with my brain! The bible has always made no sense to me, so you breaking it down chapter by chapter is very helpful.

[@m.h6858]

You DEFINITELY don't want to follow a channel like this...he strays too far away from God and in a sense, mocks him. You find Jehovah for YOURSELF thru prayer!! Pick your Bible up and read it, with No other books...pray for discernment of the scriptures. Ask Jehovah for the Holy Spirit to guide you on this new journey. You are the head of your household still, so you must cover your family. And listening to this will take you STRAIGHT out of alignment with God and into the devil's playground. I was raised as a Witness and started my journey YEARS ago! Now, I'm on the path that I need to be on. I left when I was about 19 years old. You will go thru withdrawals, lol! Like Stockholm syndrome...afraid to venture off, uncertainty...afraid to listen to certain things, feeling just lost and alone. You are not alone, Jehovah lives within us all. Greater is He that is IN you, than he that is in the world(1John 4:4) Start with learning God for yourself! Taste the Lord, for He is good!(Psalms 34:8)🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@SilverSphereSorcerer]

@@m.h6858 "Strays too far from god" You know that athiests don't believe in dieties, right? How can one stray from something of which they have no belief in. Reading the bible is great advice to give to someone who is questioning their beliefs as more often than not it results in a new athiest. I'm sorry that you feel consuming information from this or similar channels can make one fall out of the grace of their diety; it must make learning difficult.

[@m.h6858]

@@SilverSphereSorcerer I was commenting on someone's page that DOES believe in God. He's an ex Jehovah's Witness.

[@SilverSphereSorcerer]

@@m.h6858 You were referring to this athiest channel straying too far from god. I'm saying that an athiest cannot stray from what they don't believe in. Furthermore, I don't see anywhere in Bradley's comment that indicates he is still 100% comitted to further belief in any gods. I'm just saying that if you really want him and his wife to choose their own paths and learn, trying to disuade them from watching these videos is counterintuitive. Especially when the reason is that you feel watching them will somehow put one out of alignment with god. As if knowledge of something different is somehow evil in god's eye?

[@m.h6858]

@Spee Ypu are contradicting yourself. Of COURSE following someone who does NOT believe in God will take you out of alignment WITH God 🤔 You don't go from being a Witness to being an Atheist. He's on a search to find SOMETHING that he's not receiving at the Kingdom Hall. I'm letting him know that he won't find it here either. I wouldn't expect you to understand. But I'm not here for you sir/ma'am, rather the ORIGINATOR of the thread. Thanks, and have a GREAT day!😊

[@marianougaz1744]

It’s almost as if it was written by a bunch of clueless guys 2000 years ago! 😑

[@jahmovementempaya1084]

What blows me off is "He made the stars also". The stars are all over the galaxies. They aren't sparkles of light, their light just travels to our visible wavelength from light years away.

[@mirrortarget5729]

As someone interested in the classification of living things, it is appalling to me that they imply that birds, fish, livestock, "creatures that move along the ground", and humans are different from animals. And anything that doesn't fit into any other category is apparently a "creature that moves along the ground", whatever that means. They also don't mention Fungi, Bacteria, Archaea, or Protista at all, and treat plants as if they are not living things. Another point: Angiosperms, or flowering plants, evolved in the Cretaceous period, long after other kinds of plants. Creation myths are infuriating.

[@alexanderlapp5048]

Humans are different. Humans are the only creatures that argue be about creation in KZbin comments.

[@kennethcook8857]

I remember back in seminary college when we studied Genesis 1, listening to (and sometimes joining) the arguments between the conservatives (literalists) and the liberals (non-literalists). For the record, the liberals won every argument.

[@JamesRichardWiley]

The human will can overcome reason every time. Faith, driven by desire and fear is stronger than reason.

[@Chadner]

When in fact this text is meant to be taken literally and figuratively at the same time, so...

[@ayrus9547]

If someone who reads bible really - he stop reading bible

[@TheGuitarislove]

“Who was he talking to, there were no people yet” I died 😂😂😂

[@PhilosophicallyAmerican]

Dumbest point in the video.

[@ilikecheeseburger42]

funniest point in the video

[@TheGuitarislove]

@@PhilosophicallyAmerican you’re the dumbest point in this bideo

[@cherylseebreth328]

He was talking to Jesus and the angels in heaven.

[@TheGuitarislove]

@@cherylseebreth328 before he created them? You realize this makes no sense

[@MrXzavier88]

Who was he talking to? THERE WERE NO PEOPLE YET 😐

[@steampunkgamez9703]

That made me laugh for way to long

[@RobinP556]

MrXzavier88 Like people that pray and basically talk to themselves, apparently god was also talking to himself. Which raises the question, if god prays, who does he pray to and why wouldn’t we pray to the head man instead of god?!

[@alinastanescu4430]

@Winston Grettum No, yahweh was talking to Jeffrey

[@havgresohgr9419]

You speak of "implied".That means you don't understand what is said. You speak of the sun as if day is a function of rising of the sun and night the absence of the sun contradicting yourself. If it is so how did scientists measure the age of the universe, when the big bang occurred and our solar system. The sun governed not made the day, living things produced after their kind. You are ridiculing the bible but not disproving it. The big bang and evolution theory is still a theory at the end of it all but you still BELIEVE it yet you look down on those that believe the bible story.

[@asocial864]

Point to be noted😋

[@scott6504]

I can't believe that reasonably intelligent and educated people can literally believe this.

[@hakureikura9052]

indoctrination to wrong things can mentally scar you...

[@SocialistFinn1]

you're very ignorant about religion if you think that even 1% of religious people "literally" believe this...

[@tylerb9877]

I can't believe that reasonably intelligent and educated people believe that human beings evolved from bacteria.

[@hakureikura9052]

@@tylerb9877 yes, unfortunately, people like you still have the same intelligence as bacteria...

[@tylerb9877]

@haKurei kura That was the most creative insult I've ever heard.

[@tebohosefatsa6627]

😂😂😂"It took four days to create the actual first day." Classic

[@theilluminator4778]

People should know that these are just moonlight stories like those our grandparents told us. Believing that actually happened is stupidity in it's highest form 🙂

[@Devil-we1rn]

No all these are true. You're the stupid for believing everything came from explosion. Also you should know Elsa from frozen is the goddess of ice.

[@EsotericFood]

“God saw that it was good” sounds something from a children’s picture book

[@pilgrimpater]

True and surely an all knowing, all powerful God would have had no doubts that it would turn out to be good. Why would such a God have to wait until creation was done to decide it was good? It's almost as if God was employing trial an error.

[@rajiphilips5937]

You guys are childish by interpreting God's statement in a ridiculous way. It's a normal that he said, "its good." Because of this I know that God created everything as good originally. It's for us this was said and written. It shows that human being are responsible for making the planet earth to a degraded form. This statement is very significant, not childish at all.

[@pilgrimpater]

@@rajiphilips5937 Should a God actually exist and the Bible be It's inerrant word, then that word should not be so ambiguous i.e. why do you interpret it so differently when it is clear that God had to wait until the implementation of creation before being able to determine it was good? Now if the Bible had said something along the lines "... God planned creation that was good so he implemented his plan and it was good", it would be more consistent.

[@rajiphilips5937]

@@pilgrimpater : You can interpret in your own way. That doesn't change the Word. God reserves his right to speak, not when you expect and as you expect. Should God actually exist? Yes, of course! It's a joke that the universe came into existence by a BIG BANG... No one has seen it, heard it, if one more Bang happens, what would happen? Any idea? New kind of DINOSAUR?

[@MegaDVDguy]

@@rajiphilips5937 Oh my, sounds like the Ken Ham "Were You There?" argument. One doesn't need to be at an event to know how it happened. Just like how police can be hours after a crime and gather evidence and discover who did it. Same thing with our universe. We can look at the evidence and "go back in time" as it were and see that a "Big Bang" did happen.

[@joselitocorrales2196]

" A man's ignorance is known by his reasons...,"

[@rockitbitz]

Binge watched your Genesis yesterday, excellent work. The occasional background music became irritating though, occasionally I found myself listening to that rather than the narration, sounds like someone having a party next door. Advice for Adam, when you are hiding from God and he says "where are you Adam?", keep your trap shut.

[@tleam88]

About how both man and woman being created and then a chapter later, Eve was created, it's because Lilith was the first woman in Hebrew/Jewish traditions (which was borrowed and edited to create the Old Testament) and she refused to bow to Adam because she saw them as equals and was banished. That was why Eve was later created - as someone lesser than Adam to bow down to him.

[@detritus5151]

And AC\DC said "Let there be Rock", and it was good...

[@FrankCastle-tq9bz]

And Khorne said “let there be blood flowing for my moat and skulls for my throne.” And it was good.

[@uknowme1811]

And don't forget "Who made who?"

[@BalaLedzep]

Ha ha ha

[@heavymeddle28]

And pink floyd wasn't happy with Gods "let there be light". No, they took it even further "let there be more light" 😊

[@heavymeddle28]

I think pink floyd had a lot more to do with genesis. I believe Roger Waters said "set the controls for the heart of the sun" 😊

[@kellykerr5225]

The story reminds me of a little kid with an ant farm.

[@davidforshaw4810]

Yeah it does sound very similar Kelly! 👍🍄🗝

[@JamesRichardWiley]

A childrens fairy tale is the most advanced truth the Catholic Church could offer its frightened followers.

[@larrycapps4397]

Guess what Kelly ? With your lack of wisdom, you have become the little kid without understanding.

[@kellykerr5225]

@@larrycapps4397 who cares what you think. I think most people who start a sentence with guess what is an asshole. If you’re a Christian you should be ashamed of treating people badly, but instead you use it as en excuse to treat people badly. That makes you Mr Larry Capps a terrible person. Go home and pray you get better.

[@kellykerr5225]

@Webz Gaming i will agree that you are an asshole and should be ashamed of yourself for saying that. Jesus and God are not proud of your statement. Especially Jesus. You are a lousy excuse for a Christian. You need to learn to be nice to people. Atheists have never done anything to hurt you. If you don’t like what you’re watching then don’t watch it. Now go home and pray to be nicer to people.

[@docmme8992]

Everybody just want to go to heaven. Imagine if the bible didnt say that people who "behave" would go to heaven, nobody would believe that. Some religions say that there are virgins girls waiting on paradise hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahabanaha😂😂😂😂😂😉😉😉😂😉😉😉😉😂😉😂😂😂😂😉😂😂

[@kirakookie]

But afterwards they wouldnt be virgins anymore...I mean, that's not the only weird thing they would believe in tho

[@elguaripolo686]

It is really frustrating towaste time studying this just because a bunch of people (A SHIT TON OF PEOPLE) want to believe nonsense and make wrong decisions that affect others based on what a random arbitrary text says. Thank you for the videos, you're awesome.

[@Matteo-1]

I'm sorry that I don't believe that instead of someone creating the Universe, nothing exploded and because a complexly organised world.

[@akl561]

~1:20 The biblical god clearly had a lousy contractor to build his universe. A decent universe would have come with a built-in hot-tub.

[@onepercenter13]

I think he used o'reilly....the builder from faulty Towers kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5Knm4afqrCCY9E

[@Wistful77]

It does. We call them hot springs. 😆💦 but god didnt invent them. Earth did.

[@Wistful77]

@JesusChristianLivingToAllWhoBelieveOnHisName ...and 'sin' is just what, exactly? Please explain.

[@akl561]

@JesusChristianLivingToAllWhoBelieveOnHisName You need to consider the possibility that your religion is imperfect because it was created by men, like all the other religions in the world. Or were all religions created by gods?

[@onepercenter13]

@JesusChristianLivingToAllWhoBelieveOnHisName fairy stories designed to frighten children....How old are you ?

[@mehotepatlas3060]

The most funny thing about The gemesis creation story is that a being who creates everything out of nothing including ENERGY has to REST on 7th day because he got tired ( leck of energy ) , why didn't he just create more energy and instantly full himself with it so that he did not had to rest ??? ...

[@swaylegend5164]

Why would that matter?

[@welllll...ok...]

To create an example for humans to follow (day of rest on the sabbath))

[@Mohawks_and_Tomahawks]

"That's what toddlers believe." The video could have been just that sentence to be honest...

[@user-mv8it4vi6j]

The first religion began when the first command met the first rule

[@wintersfan]

the sad fact that i used to read it and believe in it made me realize i was an absolute idiot as a child

[@brianmi40]

@TEE PERO Absolutely right, can ONLY come in "Faith", which is DEMONSTRABLY SHOWN TO BE GULLIBILITY, since ANYTHING can be claimed on Faith, and Faith claims are CONTRADICTORY and therefore NOT TRUE.

[@tinkaluvsjesusyou1120]

Hru.

[@tinkaluvsjesusyou1120]

@@brianmi40 wdym

[@tinkaluvsjesusyou1120]

@TEE PERO hry

[@charlieepperly6505]

To be honest, no one was around to write the creation of the world, so I useally just make as much since of it I can then take the rest of it for truth

[@kurtlangberg6143]

You missed a gold opportunity to points out that the Bible says that outer space is full of water. On the second day, when he created the “sky”, he did it by separating the waters of Earth from the waters of outer space, putting that “vault” (our atmosphere) between them. Outer space being full of water is kooky dukes.

[@meandepiphany]

Not really that kooky, even secular scientist believe there's a medium through which light and sound travel. They call it aether. It's the basis for the experiments behind the theory of relativity and of special relativity. Besides, when we breathe out on a cold day we can see the water in the air.

[@robertmccully2792]

does no say outer space,,, there are trillions of pounds of water in the air, if there was not everything would die. Just saying.

[@TheVirtualTim]

@@meandepiphany Scientists don't believe in the luminiferous aether anymore. It was suspected once it was shown that light traveled as a wave (the double-slit experiment) and up to that point, all waves required some medium (e.g. sound travels through air, water, etc.). Christiaan Huygens suggested it to provide the 'medium' for light waves. It was basically a place-holder for something not yet understood. The Michaelson-Morley experiment in 1887 (considered perhaps the greatest null-result of all time) set out to detect the aether. Their experiment was far more sensitive than it needed to be in order to detect it ... but failed. Today it is now understood that there is no aether. But moreover, the experiment showed that light always travels at the same speed (in a vacuum) for all observers ... even if one source of light is stationary and another is moving. Earth's velocity as it travels around the Sun is roughly 30 km/sec. This means for part of the year we are moving 'toward' some stars at 30 km/sec and 6 months later we are moving 'away' from those same stars at 30 km/sec ... yet the measured speed of light from those stars (which should measure a 60 km/sec difference) always works out to the same speed. This had consequences regarding the nature of time -- which cannot flow at the same rate for everyone in all situations. That leads to Special Relativity which linked light to the other laws of mechanics and unifies space and time into 'spacetime' (one word for one thing) ... shortly followed by General Relativity which also linked in gravity.

[@JamesRichardWiley]

Outer space is where the flood waters came from. Afterwards the flood waters returned to outer space.

[@vadinhopsc]

@@meandepiphany Which scientists are you talking about? Please come to 21st century. Not even the so called "dark matter" can be considered the "aether".

[@thanatos7361]

I am a Christian but I thought genesis was a load of bull

[@canbest7668]

Thanks Friendly Atheist. Keep up the good work

[@Stuartharrod1]

More than likely: “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe!” Albert Einstein

[@Stuartharrod1]

@Erik Wesley irrelevant

[@Stuartharrod1]

@Erik Wesley you miss the point

[@endisnear306]

"The more I study science, the more I believe in God.” ~Einstein

[@Stuartharrod1]

@@endisnear306 irrelevant

[@Stuartharrod1]

@@endisnear306 God is a made up character for idiots

[@tipoima]

0/10, didn't use the opportunity to go full-on "Cinema Sins" on the Bible.

[@alexanderisrael2715]

This is exactly the same thing I thought.

[@Golems_victory]

@Michael Chiango no u 😉😈😂😂😂

[@SaAkinBuhay]

I like your profile picture

[@kenbee1957]

This is a great idea You won't she me for stealing it, will you? 👀

[@tipoima]

@@kenbee1957 I'll "she" you for not actually going through with it, how about that?

[@RobertSmith-gx3mi]

A being that could instantaneously think everything into existence is much more powerful than a being that needs six days to speak everything into existence. It's not really hard to debunk the assertion that the character in the bible is all powerful.

[@Viking_Luchador]

god talking to himself is a holdover from pre Judaism Canaan, when Yahweh was one of a pantheon of gods (specifically a war god), and each one ruled over a different nation as opposed to the whole planet

[@comrade-princesscelestia4907]

Also yall should know you can see the moon and sun at the same time sometimes

[@KaiHenningsen]

Yeah ... it's funny how something that's supposed to be for the night spends half its time during the day.

[@pencilme1n]

When you see them both only the sun is dominant.

[@comrade-princesscelestia4907]

@@pencilme1n and

[@Stuartharrod1]

Irrelevant to he sun & moon only have significance because we gave it... really?

[@purplehayes3965]

One rules. . spends most of its time. Didnt mean solely night or day

[@RoseNZieg]

i laughed a bit too hard when you said, "but he rested." humans really could use that buffer.

[@r4h4al]

Also why would he need to rest? Rest is something humans need God wouldn't need to rest.

[@carlorivera3035]

@@r4h4al God will rest if or whenever he wants to. He is God, bro.

[@r4h4al]

@@carlorivera3035 But he is God resting would serve no purpose to him. His energy levels would always be full.

[@carlorivera3035]

@@r4h4al Not all who rests do so because he's tired or needful of more energy.

[@r4h4al]

@@carlorivera3035 Well true.

[@ponchocervantes]

Spoiler alert: The snake talks.

[@ericktellez7632]

Why people thing the moon brings the night, the moon is literally all the time orbiting the earth. It doesnt do anything related to which side of the earth is facing the sun directly. (Other than some gravitational pull but minimal really)

[@donteventhinkaboutit6869]

Primtive people weren't educated.

[@nitai154]

The Bible is actually a relatively recent collection of writings from numerous people. Even the way they decide to keep some books and omits others adds to its lack of reliability

[@kevinquiroz5384]

If diffrent people that probably never knew each other wrote it and the fact that it is so long... contradictions are kinda predictable.

[@RajatKumar-sk6ic]

@@kevinquiroz5384 if it's truly the word of god. Should it really have contradictions?

[@luizverdecanna8023]

@@kevinquiroz5384 Mark Gospel and Q Gospels (?) that fed the Mathew and Lucas Gospel ( both the same) that were anonymously writen but carried their names, it could be any name. It is hard to get the true story but in anyways Jesus caused an commotion to moved so many people.

[@luizverdecanna8023]

@@RajatKumar-sk6ic It´s not God´s from 150 books became 66 books, 39 OT and 27 NT. Someone decided they were canon but probably they were not.

[@marlin123ish]

@@RajatKumar-sk6ic does it have contradictions or are you taking someone's word for it? read it yourself .

[@rebbie4255]

My youth pastor told us that light referred to photons, which can exist without the sun. Still wrapping my head around that.

[@surrealcereal948]

Move to a different church. Your youth pastor is a science-illiterate idiot.

[@AMC2283]

Electromagnetic force acts on charged particles throughout the universe, not just in stars, and not all of it is visible

[@MrsBridgette2012]

Our church taught that God was the light, then he created the sun and moon to do the job. Right. They do know how to come up with excuses and explanations.

[@gocaivanovic8415]

@@MrsBridgette2012 same, but even then why would he need to do so? He is supposedly omnipresent, so where the light at every step i take? what of the globe and its plants during Genesis, one side is fucked while the other isn't. Which means he did create it in a week, meaning they have no excuse of "the days were actually thousands of years"

[@gramps5595]

Regarding the seperation of "night and day", just a few days before watching this episode I came across some articles online about the 'midnight sun' where in places above the Arctic Circle (like the Svalbard Achipeligo between Norway and the North Pole) the sun never sets between 20 April and 22 August.due to the tilt of the earth's axis. The seperation was never complete. It would have blown the minds of ancient Jewish scribes.

[@nori_tutor]

It never entered into my mind how a transcendent God who created an ever expanding universe with billion of stars, planets ans galaxies apparently would care so much if some ants (people) on a tiny planet planted two kind of crops in the same field, it sure seemed God was very..."human".

[@McFlingleson]

And also, if the sun rules the day and the moon rules the night, why is the moon visible during the day all the time?

[@PikesvilleAl]

time is at hand fool -the moon is self illuminating just like the Bible says not your lying science

[@jilliansmith7123]

Alf Landon: it's still reflecting light, not emitting it. Just like reality.

[@jilliansmith7123]

Bobby Allen: I can see tht Alf Landon (not the famous politician) may have been kidding. But I'm not so sure about you. You kidding? Or what? I'm dim these days. (OK, maybe always)

[@jesusisgod4327]

Good question but noone cant answer that question all I can say overall the sun is associated with day and the moon is associated with night that's good enough for me ! ;)

[@jilliansmith7123]

The moon doesn't emit light. It reflects the sun's light. So would you call a mirror a light? No, because a mirror is not a light. The only "light" out there is the sun, which a deity would know but people didn't back then. (And the sun is the same exact thing as any other star, just much closer to us. It's not something separate or different. Yes, the moon is often seen during the day. As usual, reality isn't as cut and dried as portrayed in the bible. Religious holy books aren't the best place to go for actual, useful information about the real world. That's not their purpose, anyway.

[@Jammet]

Watching this is like, a throw-back some years. :) Glad you're back! I'm looking forward to what videos you're making!

[@geniusexpert6632]

Most females lie and pretend a lot when it comes to relationships. Most females mainly care about looks and money when it comes to relationships. Most females prefer rude good looking guy over less avg looking nice guy. Most females lie when they say personality matters more than looks. Most females be like I'm tired of there being no nice guys but good chance at least one nice guy has approached to her but she rejected cause he wasn't good looking or rich or tall enough but she won't admit. Hey guys if you're single stay single and if your not breakup with your gf or wife she'll most likely cheat on. Trust me I know

[@Rolando_Cueva]

@@geniusexpert6632 wtf?

[@ESLteacher62]

Please don't be mislead by this guy's messages. He is mocking God and will pay a great price for it as will those who follow these false teachings. It's proven. God has told the ending from the beginning. No man has EVER been able to do this with 100% accuracy; no man can do the things that God has done. Don't base your eternity on something some guy says on KZbin. Read the Bible for yourself & then you decide on your own! It's is the Living Word of God. It's as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago. Please be careful who you allow to own your soul. Our souls live forever, only our bodies pass away. Our souls go to ONE of two very different places when we die: heaven or hell. We aren't all just here because of some big boom. Before the universe was created we were chosen, He knew us before we were even conceived. Guard your souls, be very careful. By now, because of what we are seeing in this world - everyone should be very much aware of the evil that exists. This is because of God's adversary, satan. The battle being fought right before our eyes is spiritual warfare, good vs evil, God vs. satan. Right now the earth belongs to satan, but soon Jesus will return and take what is HIS. It's been foretold, like everything else. Good wins! God wins! Satan will be destroyed. He knows this, he cannot win, so he's going to try to kill and destroy as many souls as he can before his time (short) is up. We can see this if we are willing to open our eyes. Right now satan is going after our youth. Just look around and see the battle of good vs evil being fought in the physical realm right now. This guys is delusional and sadly, those who follow his teachings are being led away from the ONLY ONE who can save them. Don't trust your soul to one of satan's minions who only wishes to destroy your soul and keep YOU from ever reaching your full potential in the Lord. For now, satan is the prince of this world, but Jesus is the KING and He will rule forever in due time.

[@Real_Peashooter]

ESLTeacher was talking about GOD and the Dev

[@mikeduplessis8796]

Also, how did the plants reproduce without insects or animals?

[@scyz2807]

New viewer here. Someone on another YT channel suggested that I view this video. On that video I commented - "Considering Genesis, I've been wondering who it was who witnessed God creating stuff? There were no humans for many of the "first days". And even when Adam and Eve came along did they instantly know how to write down what happened to them? My evangelical Christian sister could not answer me about how anyone knew what happened "in the beginning". I made sure she didn't use the "inspired word of God" thing where God supposedly tells someone what they should write down when they weren't actually there to see it. Anyone could say they were inspired and write any fantastic story they wanted. Thing is, Genesis is just the product of someone's imagination, or a number of someones' imaginations.

[@kokobel7546]

Please Watch Dawah youtubers arabic

[@kiwihans100]

So all the biographies of peoples lives in the past were written by themselves or even people who lived at the same time? HARDLY! Your comment doesnt make sense1 The facts are that the Gospels were written by four men who knew personally the one they wrote about, Jesus. In any library most books on the lives of anyone were written sometimes CENTURIES after they lived.

[@Tyrconnell]

@@kiwihans100 All of the gospels were written by anonymous authors. There traditional names were given to them in the 2nd Century. So there is no way of knowing if the authors knew Jesus.

[@RM-lu1kx]

In alle honestly, do you or not believe that Jesus existed? If not, why would they have made His story up and why? Why do we all use His name to express disgust if the story was made up? Makes no sense at all.

[@Tyrconnell]

@@RM-lu1kx Personally I do believe he existed. However there are plenty of reasons why the story might have been made up, and certainly large sections of it were. As for your last point, you do that because you were brought up in a country (I assume) with centuries of Christian culture behind it and swearing by Jesus, God, or whatever is just what people do regardless of their personal beliefs. I live in a non-Christian country and I assure you Jesus does not get called upon to express anything.

[@WEStern-sm3ot]

Also, the moon does not rule the night! I have seen it during the day; and do not see it at night several times a month!! 😂☀️🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓

[@WEStern-sm3ot]

@Donna Clark Not true! The moon orbits the earth. The sun illuminates half the moon at the maximum. The earth casts it’s shadow on the moon at times, occasionally blocking all the light from the sun. When I do not see the moon at night, neither does anyone else. The moon is fully in earth’s shadow. No one on earth can see it at night. Also, The times Some are seeing it during the day is not what the storybook says. This also disproves flat earth claims.

[@WEStern-sm3ot]

@Donna Clark Not true! When it is in the shadow of the earth there is no reflected sunlight to be seen. The moon only reflects sun light.

[@WEStern-sm3ot]

@Donna Clark Neither! The chicken evolved from it’s ancestors on the evolutionary tree! If you want to follow that line back far enough, It seems logical that some organism came first (before the first egg laying chicken ancestor evolved.) But I was not there and I am not an expert in Biology, so that question is best answered by someone who has seen and evaluated the evidence, like a Biologist!

[@WEStern-sm3ot]

@Donna Clark Little organisms divide and evolve over great time periods into larger organisms. Over millions of years, changes gradually occur: single celled organisms become multi-celled organisms and so on while other adaptations to their environments evolve. Eventually you have large enough organisms, along with many adaptations to their environments to evolve wings, egg laying capabilities, etc. (This is largely determined by their needs to survive in their environments over time). This is known as evolution by NATURAL selection. There is also evolution by HUMAN selection, which is why we have dog breeds, cows, corn large enough to eat, etc. The reason the Covid Delta variant is now an issue is because evolution occurs quicker in microscopic life. So, get vaccinated and take a basic Biology class or ask a Biologist if you have further questions! I don’t have the time or qualifications to teach you basic Biology, as your knowledge is obviously very limited or your brainwashing is getting in the way of logic and evidence.

[@WEStern-sm3ot]

@Donna Clark My last answer, since you lack the basics to ask intelligent questions. I don’t know. It depends on how their environment changes. If it changes to much, they may go extinct; as has been the fate of many species over the millennia! Bye now!

[@ricardoaguirre6126]

I immediately questioned the creation story when I first heard it at the age of nine.

[@cocoabeanz6171]

s a me

[@mensetens6391]

And you're proud of still thinking like a nine-year-old?

[@mrmoth26]

@@mensetens6391 Does God creating plants and night and day before the sun sound logical to you? You think like a toddler if you believe in these fairy tales. Probably most 9 year olds are smarter than you, they at least have grow out of fairy tales.

[@mensetens6391]

@@mrmoth26 _You think like a toddler if you believe in these fairy tales_ A toddler thinks about fairy tales the right way, for he hears the wonder in the world of the story. The adult, so proud and unlistening in his pretended sophistication, cannot see the wonder before his eyes. He can hear the machine but not the heart of the inventor. He can see how he can profit from the machine but not see what the inventor imagined when he made it. It's adults who think it's morally superior to make a promise and personally inconvenient to keep it. Toddlers like to win games. Adults like to win wars. Toddlers blame wrongdoers. Adults execute them. Toddlers laugh at the colors of nature. Adults chop them down and burn them because they're in the way. Toddlers laugh at strange animals. Adults hunt them to extinction. However, you think that you are right about the Bible. You are not. You imagine the Bible as something that you merely want it to be, therefore you cannot see what it is. Read Genesis aloud about twenty times and really listen to it. Maybe the twentieth time you'll hear it. _Does God creating plants and night and day before the sun sound logical to you?_ Does God creating order and beauty out of chaos sound good to you?

[@mrmoth26]

@@mensetens6391 You haven't answered my question, is making plants and night and day before the sun logical? It's imaginary, Genesis is supposed to be metaphorical (at least nowadays). It's made up. Read Genesis and apply logic or science to it.

[@deedeskin2439]

"Male and female created He them", but it doesn't specifically say how many of them He created, does it? 10? 50? 1000? Half a million? "And the Baby Bear said, "Somebody's been eating my porridge and it's all gone!" Sure, uh-huh...

[@robinbeers6689]

Thank you so much for doing this series.

[@bubbercakes528]

Most religious people I have known only know what their minister reads to them on Sunday. When people like myself point out errors in the bible to them they say that I don’t understand the bible. My sister is a college educated teacher yet she thinks she is not smart enough to understand the bible. It’s so frustrating.

[@ggCA07]

Exactly most Christians don’t even read the bible. Atheists do☹️☹️

[@niffwasau1815]

For verses 14-18, you can see the moon during the day, and sometimes at night it is t visible for its new moon phase. There’s also eclipses, solar flares, and other ways that iight and dark get messy

[@zaffyr]

and this **** is a world wide best seller

[@kellydalstok8900]

@@zaffyr that hardly anyone reads, because it’s the worst written fiction by far

[@tonystark6997]

Yeah but the solar flares don't make light very consistently as much as sun does.

[@AdrieKooijman]

Apparently the book shouldn't get too thick. I assume it was written by a student that got a word limit. "And be sure it can be understood by the people that live before science evolves, we'll write updated versions after that."

[@lerozalico4753]

Moon govern the night

[@kimberlyowen7600]

what is scary is that this text is used for the basis of science classes for some Christian schooling - I have seen the textbooks :( - my favorite line from one of them was "no one understands how electricity works!" ??? huh? LOL!

[@armyparty]

Thank you for these. Great job

[@Vahn-xc1gc]

Please do more of this!!! It open our minds.

[@shaunaburton7136]

I took an Old Testament class and the teacher thought people combined a couple different creation stories to make genesis. A bunch of stories were being passed down orally and when they started writing they tried putting them together. It’s just a theory.

[@bazcuda]

That theory is borne out by the manuscripts. There are several different versions of the stories from several sources, all combined into what became the book of Genesis: the Yahwist (Y/J), the Elohist (E), and the Priestly (P) versions of the written stories, plus others. Whoever put Genesis together simply wanted to preserve all the written versions of the "oral traditions" and had no concern for the contradictions the various versions had with each other, hence the two creation stories, the two conflicting sets of 10 commandments, etc.

[@mykaelajones7780]

Makes sense. Christianity stole a lot from those evil pagan religions, huh?

[@melvincarter9640]

@@mykaelajones7780 do you have proof that the CHRISTIANS stole stories? Give it your best shot proving this.

[@V_2077]

I'm reading the NRSV and it comes with two creation stories. The first is quite straightforward and the alternative is the story of Adam and Even in the garden of Eden. I guess they included two of these different stories as there were many possible ones? I need to see where the alternative ends because Adam and Eve go on for some time. Perhaps just the eden part is alternative idk

[@darktimesatrockymountainhi4046]

A reasonable theory. The ancient Torah was a collection of oral tradition that was written down, and it was not & is not now intended to be taken literally. Once the early Christian church was elevated by Constantine, the church establishment set about codifying their disparate beliefs - and some sources were rejected. Then ppl were brought into the fold by adopting their pagan traditions. The Catholic Church & its offshoots now represent a general human culture, while the rejected traditions represent hidden information that only few can appreciate.

[@ThatAutisticGuy2005]

In all seriousness as an atheist everyone should read the bible as its a piece of literature and a allergory for corruption greed and stuff, its actually a good story if you use a philosophy mind set in it

[@thomaswolfe7845]

I would love to see videos exploring the mythology behind the Bible. Like Yahweh battling leviathan resulting in the creation of the earth (Maybe this or another has something to do with the "Let US create mankind in OUR image") Or when God created man and woman. Then later made Eve from Adams rib (that's because the first woman was Lilith, who was yeeted out of Eden because she wanted to ride cowgirl instead of take it missionary. Being equal to Adam and not subservient to him and all that)

[@johnholland9371]

“It’s always sunny somewhere” Paddy’s confirmed as canon.

[@Basketcase642]

The part about creating man and woman at the same time stems from the removal of any mention of Lilith, the supposed first woman who was created at the same time as Adam.

[@TheSimpleMan454]

Was gonna mention this.

[@Basketcase642]

@@kawaii33366 Because the people who edited "the word of got" wanted to have men be the first created in order to paint women as inferior.

[@hamzakhairi4765]

Don't forget how genesis 2 contradicts that man was created before plants and animals and then after all that woman was made which is a contradictory order

[@bk1bennett]

You are very adept with scientific knowledge and a good speaker. I used to shake my fist at God and the Bible, but God supernaturally gave me new life in Christ many years ago. I view the Bible differently now. In Job 38:4, God asks Job, "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me if you have understanding." He then goes on a long discourse questioning Job some more. Finally, in Job 42:5, Job says, "I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore, I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes." I encourage you to read that entire passage and think about the possibility that one day you may have to answer to the same God. "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God."--Hebrews 10:31 (ESV) If you want an example of a life radically changed by an encounter with God, Read Acts Chapter 9. The Bible is a story much like that. People often have been trying to ignore God or to make him in their own image, but God wouldn't let them. I wish you all the best on your journey in life.

[@nsn5564]

Travel the world and learn other religions.

[@ClashColors_]

i came to this channel as a christian to try and debunk his points, but ended up becoming agnostic two months later

[@Sammie551]

Congratulations and welcome to the family Most Atheists are agnostic

[@TheTopNotchOne]

Sad I hope you find Jesus christ my friend

[@johnsmith-tq5zn]

I also became an atheist because of a channel like this. But now, where do I go from here? How do I live knowing that death will end everything?

[@ClashColors_]

@@johnsmith-tq5zn death is what makes life beautiful. it makes you appreciate life more, since you know you won’t have it forever. just live for helping other people, and bringing goodness into this world. live for the experiences, live for joy

[@johnsmith-tq5zn]

@@ClashColors_ That's a way to see it. But for me it's not enough. Now that I know I'll perish, everything seems meaningless.

[@Arlondev]

I like how the only objection to this is "The friendly atheist doesnt seem so friendly :("

[@johnstenger6518]

CHOPPING OFF HEADS IN THE NAME OF GODS DOESEN'T SEEM FRIENDLY EITHER.

[@helicopterharry5101]

Neither are Christians very Christian.

[@user-yd8rz3jk7l]

@David Garcia yo..david.. ifound u here too..im ur insta frnd lol

[@BaljinderSingh-xy4ik]

Truth don't favor friend or enemy

[@rickdavis2235]

@@helicopterharry5101 Like everything else, there are true Christians and there are false Christians. Can you tell the difference?

[@GodDanC]

Eating seedless watermelons is sinful!

[@jenniferwright1809]

KJV says Replenish the earth, which indicates that there was some life on earth prior to Adam and Eve.

[@richard6502]

As one who was raised Jewish, it depends on what version of Genesis one reads from.

[@patcoston]

You didn't mention the birth defects from interbreeding of Adam and Eve's children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, etc. Same problem happens after the great flood with only two of each animal.

[@onepercenter13]

and which one of them was Asian

[@UlexiteTVStoneLexite]

Not defending the Bible but you probably would not have seen birth defects that early on. You only get birth defects when you have defective genes. If you have a good pool of genetics you can keep interbreeding. The problem with inbreeding is if one parent has a defective genes it has a very good chance of popping up in the offspring

[@MissEasyPeasySleasy]

Jessica Livingston so 2 people and the children of these two people can make a good genetic pool? For how before leprosy and extra toes take effect??

[@UlexiteTVStoneLexite]

@Jubei Yang dude, I said I wasnt defending the Bible. I was just pointing out that you only have genetic problems with inbreeding if you have bad genetics. Lots of farmers and reptile breeders will inbreed their animals without problems and they actually use it to see if they have any hidden defects. If the parents don't have any defective genes then it is highly unlikely offspring will untill they develope a mutation. Inbreeding doesn't cause defects just because it's inbreeding. Inbreeding increases the rate at which a defective gene will pair up with another defective gene.

[@UlexiteTVStoneLexite]

@@MissEasyPeasySleasy leprosy is a bacterial infection, not genetic so no inbreeding will not cause leprosy.

[@MikeAndNary]

So who is the narrator of "in the beginning". Who was the guy with a clipboard and pen writing down what god said and did during the creation?

[@wheels5894]

We don't know but as the writing down was ,likely when the Israelites trecked across to the Palestinian area to settle and there they started to write down their stories. So the author or authors with redactors created a single document out of a number but none of them ever was present when the creation events happened. We are supposed to accept that god inspired them to write sown the story but given how quiet this god is, it is far more likely to be legends they picked up from Babylon and surrounding tribes.

[@jujin918]

Morgan Freeman

[@martins96244]

Shhhh don't expose the plotholes to christians

[@jessicawelldom4456]

It was Moses

[@MikeAndNary]

@@jessicawelldom4456 How do you know, were you there?

[@camrynglanville6294]

The existence of dinosaurs compared to the story in Genesis was enough for me to be skeptical about the Bible. If God created all life within 7 days, including humans and animals, that would mean dinosaurs and humans existed at the same time 😂

[@alex-rs6ts]

lol Indeed. And I imagine something like that would NEVER go unnoticed.

[@carealoo744]

Been looking for this- Thanks:)

[@Betientje]

I was raised a christian and believed it all for far too long. I don't remember exactly how it got recommended or which video it was, but while I was a believer I stumbled unto a video of yours. I listened to it for about 1-2 minutes and it pissed me off. My baseless defense mechanism kicked in and I closed the video very quickly.. Thinking that you were a "lost soul" and you don't know what you're talking about. Or, mostly, I said that to myself. In reality, the first seed of doubt was planted. I think it took me about 2 years from then to start investigating. I didn't really want to up until then because I didn't want to listen to proof that I was wrong. I finally let myself investigate though and I am so proud to call myself an atheist now. It took me a little over about three years from those first couple of minutes of your video to the moment where I finally felt completely free from especially the fear of hell that kept persisting. So basically I just want to thank you and apologize for my opinion of you back then. For those minutes, I actually hated you. But now I know that you were the one who started me on my path to freedom. Keep up what you do. Love from the Netherlands.

[@jeffrutar5370]

Don't be a atheist please? Cause regardless if it was god or not, something or someone did create all of us and this world as we no of it..And if you turn to atheist/ devil believer etc, than you must believe in god as well..cause the devil was once a angle...BUT enough of that, you are right tho about the Christianity world..I was also born into Christianity, and after I did my research and started putting history and our government etc all together, it came to me that everything was a lie... Christianity is not a religion that we were tought to believe, it's a Faith Base cult...and I love my family and etc, but I have had a hell of a time over the yrs to prove to them that all this time going to church and being a Christian is a lie and a sin as any...God was a Hebrew, Jesus was a Jew..so we're do we get all this other religions from? Also how can a powerful creator not stop his own son from dying on a Cross? And the million dollar question that no one can answer is how did god become himself? Also the bible contradicts itself in so many ways..it will tell me to turn my cheek from bad people etc, but then tell me eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth...the bible might be a good source of living structure and etc..but it also gives bypoler and contradicting structure as well to the point to were we really don't no how to interpret it any more or how to follow it cause it's damned if you do and damned if you don't...So my religious beliefs are out and I have no answers for any of it, but still believe someone or something is out their very powerful to create everything...

[@tn_onyoutube8436]

@@jeffrutar5370 Jeff, you are so close to reality. Make the leap. All you describe effectively proves that there is no God, and no need for a God. The one thing it is always worth remembering, and repeating, just because you don’t understand something (like how life started and then evolved over ridiculously long timeframes) does not mean “therefore God” - it just means you (and in this case, everyone) don’t understand how it happened.

[@Betientje]

@@jeffrutar5370 Hey Jeff, you seem so far along the journey.. keep going, keep asking questions. Hopefully you'll also be able to free yourself someday. And don't worry, I'm just an atheist ;) not a devil believer or worshipper. To believe in the devil that you're describing, you pretty much need to be a theist which I'm not. Anyway, best of luck to you, hope you'll be able to put aside your fears as well someday.

[@Betientje]

@TEE PERO I once heard someone make the following analogy: I feel like, all my life, I've been sitting behind a window.. watching a beautiful landscape but only seeing it from my limited point of view. Becoming an atheist is like walking out of a door next to that window that I didnt even know was there. And once you're outside, you see that the landscape was just a painting.. it wasn't real even if it looked beautiful. Now I'm outside, smelling the grass and the world is a million times more beautiful than it was from behind the window. And no one could ever convince you to go back. Because just like a magic trick, once you see it, you can never go back to ignorance. I can never be a believer again... I saw past the magic trick, it was just a lie. It's so much better on the outside :) come, join us ;)

[@tn_onyoutube8436]

@@jeffrutar5370 woah there, at first reading I missed this one -“if you turn to atheist/devil believer etc,” Hang on there buddy. Being an atheist and not believing in god pretty much goes hand in hand with also not believing in the devil. Atheist and devil worshiper are NOT the same thing. In the same way, atheists also do not believe in angels (though we do believe in angles, they are cool!), either good ones or bad ones.

[@bobh5087]

It's astonishing that any modern-day person could read the Genesis creation myth and not instantly shrug it off as *ridiculous in the extreme.* And since there *never was* a Garden of Eden/Adam and Eve - and therefore no "fall of man/original sin" and subsequent need of redemption/a "savior" - the entire raison d'etre and foundation of all three Abrahamic religions utterly disintegrates into *meaningless absurdity.* Just one glaring example: In the Genesis creation myth, the sun wasn't created until the 4th day - so how were they measuring "days"? If some imaginary, man-invented god couldn't even get his own creation project correct, then why should anyone believe or trust anything else "he" (supposedly) proclaims or does? Of course, Genesis was written by primitive, ignorant, superstitious men with a nefarious tribal agenda who knew virtually nothing vis à vis science, biology, geology, cosmology, anthropology, etc., etc.

[@bobh5087]

@Bobby Allen As I wrote: THERE WAS NO YHWH OR CREATOR GOD. Primitive humans have invented MILLIONS of gods, devils, etc., over the millennia, and YHWH just happened to be the JEWISH VERSION of another man-invented deity. It's not complicated.

[@irtehpwn09]

@Winston Grettum Evolution is the theory of how living organisms change, not how life originated, abiogenesis is the hypothesis of how life arose through complex chemical processes in complex environments. Evolution is not new, its been known that populations speciate over vast time, most notably when we domesticated wild species, they change through selective breeding, then the mechanism for how nature does it was discovered by Charles Darwin in 1859, natural selection and then it was debated thoroughly and mountains upon mountains of evidence have come since, including an entirely new field of science, genetics, with the discovery of DNA, which is the strongest field of evidence for evolution, it provides the heritability mechanism and so much more like Endogenous Retro viral DNA insertions in the DNA which shows how closely related species are and is definitive evidence for common ancestry.

[@irtehpwn09]

@Winston Grettum Yes an amazing programmer but also a very flawed 1, tons of copies of the same genes, lots of non coding dna, tons of endoginous retro viral dna in there and genes are a tangled mess etc and the way the dna has been modified through a grand process of reproduction and mass death, countless organism don't make it to birth, countless organisms don't make it to reproductive age, the struggle for survival is brutal, if i was to attribute this process to a conscious being, i would call them cruel and wasteful, yes it can produce astonishing complexity but the vast amount of death and suffering the process produces is unfathomable.

[@irtehpwn09]

@Winston Grettum if you say so

[@janbuyck1]

Bobby Allen : Humans are creators and they built robots. Are you saying that doesn’t make any sense?

[@paulfletcher-yi2ji]

And all this happened in 5000 years, and the whole world was watered only by dew

[@billydebianchi2046]

It's interesting because genesis 1 was written 500 years after genesis 2. Genesis 2 was originally where everything started and someone thought It needed something more and wrote a foreword I guess.

[@TreVader1378]

I hear Eve was always complaining about Adam coming first. Giggity.

[@MrHjwin]

God left the best to last!

[@zandilemashiya2500]

😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣 nice one Quag

[@marshallsmillie3888]

Oh come now.!

[@stpeta17]

Did y’all hear about Lilith? She was supposedly really the First Lady but they took it out of the biblical cannon.

[@keyratcane66]

Hahahahahaha! A woman that doesn’t complain is a man.

[@colinward51]

Love what you say, I have thought this from a child and I just could not believe what I was taught at school.

[@user-ok2zs4eu7k]

I once told a "Christian" that the bible probably had translation errors. He was surprised that it wasn't written in English. He ended the conversation by saying that he would talk to pastor about it.

[@youtubeaccount3230]

Lol they really think the bible is in English

[@lilpoindexter]

genesis 19:30-38 is my favorite way to start a discussion with a god believer...then they say old testament, no longer valid, blah blah blah, and i ask, how do you know