In the Beginning

"In the beginning the universe was created, this has made a lot of people very unhappy and has widely been regarded as a bad move." -Douglas Adams

So, the Bible starts out as God getting into creating everything, because before that there was nothing. Well, any 4-year old can poke holes in that: "If everything comes from God, where does God come from?" and that question has a "simple" answer. God is eternal, meaning God exists outside of time. God is kinda like a guy with TiVo that can watch the show any time he wants, pause, take a dump, come back, rewind a couple minutes to his favorite part, then watch some more. And the best part is that God created the show (thus all-knowing), so he knows exactly what is going to happen anyways (we will see that come back to bite him in the ass later).

I do like that God created the heavens and earth before he made light, like he was rummaging around in a dark closet with some building blocks and then suddenly realized he couldn't see. I guess that explains why the whole Earth isn't perfectly suited to life and why the stars kinda look like a Jackson Pollock painting.

Then it gets into some complicated stuff about separating water from water, having a sky, land, etc. He does although create all the plant life in a day then turns around and creates a sun and moon the next day. But then this is where I really start to have a problem with creation. He creates all animals in a single day. One day, that's all the time it bothers to put into making the masterpieces of the inner workings of every single species of animal on the planet. With there being millions of different kinds of life on this planet (excluding bacteria) and only so many hours in the one day he made them all. We are looking at something like twenty species  a second. To me, this seemed like the biggest rush ever at this point, no wonder so many things are completely messed up, they only had a fraction of a moment to be thought into existence!

Gen 1:26- "Let us make mankind in our image." Who is "our"? There is only God at this point, so who is he even talking to? Questions abound as to the nature of that statement, unless you are a blind faith Christian, then that isn't even in the Bible.

Contradictions in Creation...

Genesis 1:11-12 and 1:26-27 Trees came before Adam.
Genesis 2:4-9 Trees came after Adam.

Genesis 1:20-21 and 26-27 Birds were created before Adam.
Genesis 2:7 and 2:19 Birds were created after Adam.

Genesis 1:24-27 Animals were created before Adam.
Genesis 2:7 and 2:19 Animals were created after Adam.

Genesis 1:26-27 Adam and Eve were created at the same time.
Genesis 2:7 and 2:21-22 Adam was created first, woman sometime later.

Before the Beginning...

Hi! I'm Kevvy, and I will be your guide on this wonderful journey through the NIV Bible. My partner Lizzy and I have decided we are going to take two different versions of the Bible and read through part by part, go over our thoughts on it, and put them here!

For those of you who don't know me, here's an introduction to my religious background...
I'm atheist, mostly. While I don't personally believe there is a god, I take after Jean Paul Sartre in that I entertain the idea because I know that it is very important to many other people and I try to understand them. That being said, it isn't people's belief in God that I take issue with, if you need to believe that there is some sky daddy out there watching over you in order to make it through your day, I don't really care. What I do take a lot of issue with is the manner in which people defend their faith, debate the existence of god, etc.

When I was younger, I did a lot of reading and learning about the various world religions and pretty much settled on that Christianity was the worst of them all. The followers of Christianity are so blinded by their faith that they will actively deny the world around them in order to cling to their two thousand year old beliefs, completely disregarding the advancements of the last two thousand years as complete folly. To me, this is a smack in the face to human progress and one of the great obstacles that the human race has to overcome in order to earn its place in the universe.

Now, I don't worship science, I don't think it provides all the answers. I do prefer it over the idea that everything is "God's will", because to me that argument is the same as the "Because I said so." answer. 

Anyways, I have to go bake cookies now, and that takes precedence over writing. I'll start at the beginning next time!

-Kevvy