Things I find stupid, objectionable, offensive and just plain wrong on the bible. Genesis 40-50
Posted by: Lone Wolf on: January 27, 2008
Yet another in a 365,000,000,000 part series.
Finishing off Genesis.
40 through 45, nothing really worth talking about other than the events leading up to the Jews entering Egypt where they will ultimately be inslaved and God (who supposedly know the future) did not stop them.
1And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
2And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
3And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
4I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.
Not him again! Didn’t God rename him Israel? Yet he still calls him Jacob.
9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Jacob is a 130 years old. People can’t like that long.
28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
Jacob lived 147 years. 1. The human body can not survival that long. 2. God shortened the maximum life span to 120 in Genesis 6:3.
And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:
Um eww. They had strange traditions back then.
God promised to bring Jacob out of Egypt in Genesis 46:3-4, God lied.
1Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
12His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
Uh huh? What?
So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
And Joseph died in Egypt, God broke his promise.
And thats the end of Genesis.
6 Responses to "Things I find stupid, objectionable, offensive and just plain wrong on the bible. Genesis 40-50"
Well there are those that believe the bible is the literal word of God and the bible says allot of negative effects. And that can lead to allot of bad things happening. And thats the point of posting all these topics on the bible.
I’m curious as to how you take Genesis 6:3 to 120 mean that the life-span of every human is a maximum of 120 years? Also, I take it that you know the science of the canopy that used to cover the earth according to Genesis before the flood and the blocked UV rays that allowed for longer life, etc… Have I got it right?
Genesis 6:3
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
It says it.
UV rays are not the only thing that can kill us, getting rid of UV rays will not make people live much longer, thats if it would increase life span.
There nothing in science talking about a “canopy” and nothing to suggest there ever was.
Two key phrases in the Hebrew of this verse are obscure: the one rendered “contend with” and the one rendered “for he is mortal.” The verse seems to announce that the period of grace between God’s declaration of judgment and its arrival would be 120 years. But some believe that the verse announces that the human life span would henceforth be limited to 120 years. Yet if you read on further, like in Genesis 11: 10-26 (Shem’s genealogy), you would see that many people lived past 120 years. And in this genealogy, unlike the Sethite genealogy, it does not give the total figures for the ages of the men at death and does not end each paragraph with “and then he died.” It covers the centuries between Shem and Abram as briefly as possible, so they may have lived longer than what it says.
I know it says people live longer than 120 years later in the bible, I point out the contradictions. In fact I point them out
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1 | Georgia Stewart
January 27, 2008 at 4:31 pm
You’re reading the Bible literally, which is the mistake Conservative Christians make. They believe it’s the infallible ‘Word of God’ but it’s simply a record of a people pointing to God. I’ll give you an example: the Exodus was recorded hundreds of years after the events occured, many years after Moses died. First it was passed down through the generations by the oral tradition, or word of mouth. As in Chinese whispers words and ideas get altered and exaggerated. According to Biblical scholars the Exodus was probably by a small band of Israeli rebels escaping from captivity. The Red Sea is actually The Reed Sea and was very marshy land. The Israelites could easily hide in the reeds and ambush Egyptians on chariots trying to get through. The appearance of blood in the sea is known to have been caused by red mud that got washed down into it at certain seasons etc.
I’m being very brief here but basically the Bible is a historical record but is made up of stories, songs, parables, geneologies and other genres. It contains wisdom and truths but also errors and personal opinions. There is a lot to commend it but do not take every word as literal because the writers probably didn’t mean it all to be read that way.