To say that this story borrowed from other ancient near eastern texts, would be a massive understatement!!

To say nothing of the fact that Adam would not have known what it would be to experience death, as in ""Thou shall surely die." If sin and death entered the world only when they ate, then they couldn't possibly have any conception of what that might actually mean. Nothing there had ever died. Therefore the threat was as meaningless as telling a kindergartener that they won't have a secure retirement without a pension plan.

The most glaring issue is punishing people for doing a WRONG thing which was LEARNING what the WRONG is. How can one be punished for all eternity for doing a thing the wrongness of which they were literally mentally incapable to grasp? It shows that God does not demand love, nor does he demand morality - he demands BLIND OBEDIENCE.

I used to listen to Alan Watts, a former Catholic Priest on the radio when I was 15 years old. One of his lectures - On Being God. Is a good one. And - They Made it All Up! I'm 70 years old now and I'll be listening to you. Thanks 👍

Another glaring issue is that we are told the tree of knowledge of good and evil was placed in the center of the garden of Eden, in which it would have been in full view of not only Adam and Eve but animals as well. And any animal that could have reached the fruit of the tree would have eaten it as well, since the food looked delicious and good to eat. What would have happened if a squirrel had eaten of the fruit? Would it have gained the knowledge of good and evil and condemned the world? Or was the knowledge restricted only to humans and not animals? That would be arbitrary! Such questions expose the absurdity of the story, and a glaring plot hole that disproves the idea that the story could have been inspired by God.

Nicely done. You are on my growing list of new and helpful channels to watch and support. Thank you.

Most of these points have been my issues with the *'A&E' fable* for a long time.

Important facts the authors left out of their story: God created and controlled the clever talking serpent (Satan). God knew that Adam and Eve would disobey him before he created them and exposed them to the Serpent God assigned free will to his creations and could also take it away at any moment - so it wasn't free. God placed the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden instead of removing it and avoiding the fall. God was absent when the serpent arrived to temp Eve and then afterwards a different god (minus his Divine Attributes) reappeared looking for Adam and Eve. (Two different gods!) God won't forgive Adam and Eve for falling into his sting operation and decides to punish them instead of forgiving as an expression of his unconditional love. A side note: Adam throws Eve under the bus which shows what type of person Adam and his creators were. It's a cruel, illogical story of shame and guilt created by sadistic, barbaric writers and passed on by generations of book publishers, book sellers, parents and preachers to children to rob them of their birthright. This must stop if humanity is to improve.

Lets not forget that there are multiple gods in the narrative. US is clearly a reference to other deities.

And in the previous chapter where it describes creation and Adam's creation, God in his omniscience, didn't realize that his man should not be alone and should have a help mate then proceeded to create the wild animals of the earth and air and brought them before Adam. But he did not find a suitable helper among them. God expected Adam to choose a helper from the wild beasts! And when he saw that didn't do, because his crystal ball must have been broken, he made Adam fall asleep and created Eve from his rib. This really shows that the creation of woman was an afterthought and not a part of an original design/plan or she would have been made at the exact same time and in the same manner as Adam was created. And then in the very next chapter, she is blamed for the fall of mankind. Kind of a coincidence, don't you think? Create the character to put the blame on so the man can explain his patriarchal viewpoint and set it in stone by calling it the "infallible word of God." Eve was created for the purpose of damning all mankind (in the minds of the writers, not necessarily God). However, God did have a hand in it. Would a loving father put a toddler before a campfire, tell him not to touch it and walk away? Adam and Eve may have had the bodies of adults, but they were toddlers in intellect because they didn't know any better. How could they? They were as innocent as babies. And how could a TREE possess that much power? And if God was omniscient as they claim, didn't he foresee that this action would have such a devastating effect for all creation and wouldn't try to prevent it from happening? Why was the tree there to begin with? Why didn't he have angels protecting the tree so they couldn't reach it? All in all, this story is pure mythology borrowed from Mesopotamian texts that already existed at the time. And it reads like a great fantasy story too with all the cliche components.

Concerning chapter 2 " for in the day you eat, you shall surely die" Multiple issues with this The text does NOT say "if you eat, you shall surely die" If you eat, says that he had a choice In the day you eat, says, you WILL eat As for the dying issue, that can be waved away in many ways......I tend to look at it that he repented Psychologically, a person trying to blame someone else, they will NOT add at the end "and I did this". Christianity says that Adam blamed Eve. Judaism says that he blamed god, "you gave her to be with me". I tend to key in on the last of it, "and I ate". If Adam were trying to blame someone else ... "The woman gave me the fruit" "You gave the woman to me, and she gave me fruit." In both cases, psychologically, if he were blaming them, he wouldn't have included "and I ate.". The fact that he added this, he is admitting that he did the crime. He is merely giving the entire truth. And thus, a concept of admitting and repenting However, this still begs the question, god would have known how Adam was going to respond since he is all knowing, and thus, god lied.....any way you twist it. But god lies all the time

The origin of things is mostly unknown to all of us... this forces us to create myths & stories & religion to try explain the unrevealed. For me, Earth is a place where we come to learn & experience. If we were meant to know the origins it would be revealed to ALL. It is only revealed after we die... Enjoy the journey guys !!

Well discussed and explained. New insight for me.

The thing about Adam's immortality is really interesting. I grew up a Jehovah's Witness, and this was a crucially important point for their dogma: God had made Adam and Eve to be immortal, but they messed up, so their immortality was taken away. But after Armageddon, God will restore the world to its original intended state and make humans immortal again. But the story in Genesis really does not say that Adam and Eve were immortal. God threatens Adam saying "they day you eat the fruit, you will die". This does not imply that otherwise, Adam would never have died. (If I say to a person, "If you jump off that building, you will die", I'm not saying that the person would otherwise never die. They'll just die sooner than they would have otherwise.) It also does not imply that it was God's intention that Adam should never die. There is the puzzling Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden, which in the story provides immortality. But God did not command Adam to eat from it. In the story, it seems like God is leaving it up to chance whether Adam will actually eat from that tree. Given that the garden is full of good trees, Adam may never try that particular one.... There is really nothing in the story to uphold the idea that God wanted people to be immortal. Later authors of other Bible books, such as Paul in Romans 5, did interpret it that way ("one man brought sin into the world, and with sin came death"), but that was much later, and you only get their by adding some assumptions to the Genesis story that aren't in the text.

You got right to it. Thank you.

In this story, got told the *first-ever lie* and the serpent told the *first truth.*

The denial of evolution by some religious adherents is a bewildering stance, especially given our triumphs in artificial intelligence and machine learning. In the world of computer science, we proudly wield the tools of evolution itself to train and refine our algorithms. Genetic algorithms, neural networks, and deep learning are rooted in the principles of natural selection, mutation, and adaptation. If evolution is merely a fantasy, then how do we explain the success of these methodologies that mimic nature's own processes? Are we programmers truly wizards? Or are we harnessing the very mechanisms that have shaped life itself? The acceptance of evolution isn't just a matter of scientific consensus; it's a seismic shift that shakes the very foundation of Christian theology. By acknowledging the evolutionary processes that shape life on our planet, we are forced to confront the unravelling of the story of Adam and Eve. No Adam and Eve, no original sin. No original sin, no need for redemption, no crucifixion, and no resurrection. The entire theological structure begins to collapse like a house of cards. We can't simultaneously embrace the tools of evolution in one breath and deny its existence in the next. The connection between biology and technology makes this cognitive dissonance all the more stark and indefensible. To deny evolution is to cling to a belief system that is rendered logically incoherent in the face of modern understanding. It's a refusal to see the world as it truly is, and an insistence on holding onto a myth that has been laid bare by science. Recognizing evolution doesn't merely challenge faith; it obliterates the very heart of Christian doctrine.

What always got me was, out of all the planets in the universe (billions if not trillions), why would God choose as the location of Lucifer (who I was raised to believe was the serpent) earth. This whole fall of man thing could have been avoided if Lucifer was just separated from us.

*The Enuma Elish would later be the inspiration for the Hebrew scribes who created the text now known as the biblical Book of Genesis.* Prior to the 19th century CE, the Bible was considered the oldest book in the world and its narratives were thought to be completely original. In the mid-19th century CE, however, European museums, as well as academic and religious institutions, sponsored excavations in Mesopotamia to find physical evidence for historical corroboration of the stories in the Bible. ***These excavations found quite the opposite, however, in that, once cuneiform was translated, it was understood that a number of biblical narratives were Mesopotamian in origin.*** *Famous stories such as the Fall of Man and the Great Flood were originally conceived and written down in Sumer,* translated and modified later in Babylon, and reworked by the Assyrians ***before they were used by the Hebrew scribes for the versions which appear in the Bible.*** ***In revising the Mesopotamian creation story for their own ends, the Hebrew scribes tightened the narrative and the focus but retained the concept of the all-powerful deity who brings order from chaos.*** Marduk, in the Enuma Elish, establishes the recognizable order of the world - *just as God does in the Genesis tale* - and human beings are expected to recognize this great gift and honor the deity through service. *"Enuma Elish - The Babylonian Epic of Creation - Full Text - World History Encyclopedia"* *"Sumerian Is the World's Oldest Written Language | ProLingo"* *"Sumerian Civilization: Inventing the Future - World History Encyclopedia"* *"The Myth of Adapa - World History Encyclopedia"* Also discussed by Professor Christine Hayes at Yale University in her 1st lecture of the series on the Hebrew Bible from 8:45 to 14:30 minutes, lecture 3 from 28:30 to 41:35 minutes, lecture 4 from 0:00 up to 21:30 minutes and 24:00 up to 35:30 minutes and lecture 7 from 24:20 to 25:10 minutes. From a Biblical scholar: "Many stories in the ancient world have their origins in other stories and were borrowed and modified from other or earlier peoples. *For instance, many of the stories now preserved in the Bible are* ***modified*** *versions of stories that existed in the cultures and traditions of Israel’s* ***older*** *contemporaries.* Stories about the creation of the universe, a cataclysmic universal flood, digging wells as land markers, the naming of important cultic sites, gods giving laws to their people, and even stories about gods decreeing the possession of land to their people were all part of the cultural and literary matrix of the ancient Near East. *Biblical scribes freely* ***adopted and modified*** *these stories as a means to express their own identity, origins, and customs."* *"Stories from the Bible"* by Dr Steven DiMattei, from his website *"Biblical Contradictions"* ------------------------------------------------------------------ In addition, look up the below articles. *"Jews and* ***Arabs*** *Descended from Canaanites - Biblical Archaeology Society."* ("The study in Cell not only establishes that the ancient Israelites were ***descended from the Canaanites,*** but also establishes that the Canaanite people across the separate city-states of the southern Levant, and over a period of 1,500 years, were a genetically cohesive people.") *"The Canaanites weren't annihilated, they just 'moved' to Lebanon - The Times of Israel."* (A UK-based study of ancient genomes finds ***Canaanites form over 90% of modern Lebanese ancestry, a trait they share with ancient Israelites)*** *"Ugarit - The Birthplace Of The Western Alphabet"* - Arab America *"Ugarit - New World Encyclopedia"* (Ugaritic religion centered on the chief god, Ilu or El, whose titles included "Father of mankind" and "Creator of the creation." The Court of El was referred to as the (plural) 'lhm or ***Elohim,*** a word ***later used by the biblical writers to describe the Hebrew deity*** and translated into English as "God," in the singular. El, which was ***also the name of the God of Abraham,*** was described as an aged deity with white hair, seated on a throne.) *"Canaanite Religion - New World Encyclopaedia."* (Read about Canaanite religion and El the chief or most high god of the Canaanite pantheon and the relationship of Canaanite religion to Israelite religion) *"In spite of their differences, Jews, Christians and Muslims worship the same God - The Conversation"* *"6 Ways The Quran Has A Lot In Common With The Bible - All That's Interesting"* *"The Bible and Qur’an Are Very Similar Books | Griffin"* *"Walking by Moonlight: My Journey Out of Islam - The Ex-Muslim"* *"Why Islam is False - Atheist Republic"* *"Rebuttal to Shabir Ally : Its True! The Quran Borrowed Stories From Preexisting Sources"* *"Scientific Errors in the Quran - WikiIslam"*

Excellent observations, thanks for the video!

Excellent high quality content. I'm ever on the lookout for new voices in the non-belief community, and having had this counter-apologetic interest for over a decade, I've exhausted much of the established avenues on the topic and am not easily impressed. This is my first encounter with your channel, and I'm appreciating depth, quality, and quantity of your insights. I look forward to exploring more of your channel.

*Very little* about *Christianity is original.* Large parts of it were taken from *previous stories and fables.*

Great analysis! Never thought about the anachronisms during my deconstruction. What do you think about how god told Eve her pain in childbirth would become "much worse" despite the fact she had not yet had children, AND pain was supposedly not even a thing at the time?

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Point number 7 is interesting to me. I hadn’t heard the bit about people of an ancient time believing that descendants lived actually in the person’s seed. Where can more literature support for this belief be found? Where did you read this?

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The sword one is what I always puzzled over as a kid. Why on earth would God have weapons of war? And not just any weapons, a sword; which was the weapon of choice in that time period. Either way, if he wanted a weapon from the future why not add a flaming AK 47? It’s like, we don’t even need all the science to show this story is bunk.

Sigmund Freud thought that the characters "Adam and Eve plus The Serpent" were actually "Akhenaten and his second wife Kiya plus the serpent was his first wife, Nefferttiti". The story was passed down through storytelling during the Bronze Age Collapse, and by the time it was put to paper (Second Century BCE) it had been distorted into its current form. I'm obsessed with the theory, but I don't see how one proves it. There are quite a few similarities between the historical narrative and the biblical one. The obvious difference being that rather than being the first humans, they were merely the first montheists.

*Meaning of “Bread”* It may be as much an assumption that words have inherent power and meaning as it is anachronism. In Genesis 1, nature, the universe, or *something* responds to the words of Elohim to form things from chaos and bring others into existence. Nice video. Thanks.

Have you done a video on the resurrection of Jesus? If not, do you plan on making one in the future? (I’ve only watch two of your videos so far lol)

Way to go!

It seems that God tries to trick Eve to lie, which she does not in exclaiming the serpent. Even if Gods words are "only" for effect of human writing, God still comes across to demonstrate ignorance with actions. Everybody is my people. Whatever is being done to somebody is being done to me. Religious thought is cold indifference to others. Gr8! Peace ☮💜

One of the stories that helped me become an atheist is the story of Lilith who was the first woman created by God . If you are intrigued please look it up , it's a real roller coaster .

We Africans are exempt from the curse because man migrated from here and moved to middle east to be CREATED by god and Jesus later came to Egypt!!!

The "Get out of Jail Free Card" that apologists play when discussing the issue of "On that day you shall die" is, 2 Peter 3:8-‘one day is like a thousand years as Adam died at age 930, he therefore died on the same day. They do this all the time. Defend the indefencable.

Thankyou for talking about these points, I believe it is an important subject to observe the bible how it is, minus the Christian apologetics. I had not thought about god creating the first instrument of war..also did god create the context for domestic abuse of women by making women (generally) less strong than men so able to be overpowered and impregnated? Did god create toxic mushrooms and disease carrying insects at creation or were they specially thrown into the picture at the Curse for extra sadism?

Immortality......Adam was only going to die WHEN he ate. If he never ate, he would have never died.....to say anything else is adding to the story. This does pose an issue concerning, preventing Adam from taking of the tree of life, but this can be waved away by saying that, he was going to prolong his life, so long as he had not eaten of the tree of knowledge

also, the minute adam and eve sinned, why not start over right away? why wait? why wait for that one sin to corrupt all of his creation? and why did God wait so long to send Jesus?

and though wilt surely die!..they did not know what death was!!

how would they know what clothes were unless they saw clothes on other people?

Oh my

Makes me think about Neil Gaiman's re-imagining of Genesis where it's more a sci-fi/fantasy scenario where God isn't automatically good or moral but has an agenda and power structure that Lucifer challenges for understandable reasons...

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Keep on going,great presentation.Unfortunately, there's no way to convince a "true believer" that fables will remain fables. True believers "know" for a fact that you are confabulating.How do they know? Well,they read and study "their" Bible (King James edition,preferably) and as every soul living on this miserable planet ( flat,no doubt) it is a solid source of wisdom and facts.Just steer clear of the most fervent believers who might take upon themselves to implement a direct order from the merciful and loving creator.He can tell them to terminate the heretic and guarantee a free ticket to heaven and eternal bliss

Why would they have even bothered eating to begin with? If they were without sin, they wouldn't have required food to survive, therefore wouldn't even need to eat anything at all (only afterwards were they told they would die). Nothing in that story makes sense. Adam and Eve were "supposedly" created perfect without sin, but they created it by disobeying. Yet God made the paradox of ALLOWING them to eat anything at all. We are exactly how we were created to be. No matter how much clothes we wear we are still naked underneath the clothes. It's like God being mad at us for being naked and making us wear clothes.

It seen to me that if they didn't eat the fruit, learn godd and evil and be kicked out They may have never given birth to the rest of humanity

Just ignore everything and live a good and sensible life that's all

My question is i thought there was a female before Eve, i think her name was Elizabeth or something. Who was she and what happened to her.

You touched on the point that Adam immediately knows how to farm, raise crops and domesticate animals. God taught him?? How about how to start a fire?

My main perplexity from the storry of Adam & Eve is this: I never believed in any god from birth and hence am no bible scholor. However, I have learned folks say the bible says Adam's sons married women who were not their own sisters. How could this happen?

Bible only speaks from the starting point of humanity it gives you very little about the prior events to humanity only tells you that it was void of light and it was formless and god saw this and pretty much spoke light into existence and with light comes form . The part of the books that tell you about before and your connection to god are taken out and this all to keep you in your humanity so that you won’t ascend beyond it . Because the people I am referring to they know the truth and they know who we are! We are far more then we physically appear to be .

1st Issue is..."A Talking Snake !!!" 2nd issue: Where did everyone else come from. Just two people ?? 3rd issue: Why would a All knowing, All Loving God allow Evil Period. Especially as a Parent. 4th issue: Aren't we Born from our...Mother ?

The Truth of the Matter. Its impossible to know what this life is. No one knows where they were before they were Born, and no one has come back from being put in the Ground. So, I get it. The World can be so Bad believing in "something". Gives people hope But the truth is no one knows...

Eve sees nothing unusual about a talking snake.

I agree with some of your points about the flaws in this myth, and its original inspiration being more positive Sumerian tree of life myths, however, regarding the seeds. Eve came from Adam's body. Every woman is born with a set number of eggs. Each month she releases one egg(seed) until menopause. Once an egg is fertilized by the male a unique combination of both of their genes are passed on to their offspring.

I will state my problem with their idea of objective morality from god with socratic method. People of all kinds please state if your christian or muslim, atheists, agnostics or any combination of those and then if willing participate in the test. As well, looking for 5 good moral theist questions for atheists/agnostics. #1 You see a child drowning in a shallow pool and notice a person just watching that is able to save the child with no risk to themselves but is not, is that persons non action moral? #2 If you go to save the child, the man tells you to stop as he was told it was for the greater good, but he does not know what that is, do you continue to save the child? #3 Is it an act of justice to punish innocent people for the crimes of others? #4 If you were able to stop it and knew a person was about to grape a child would you stop it? #5 Would you consider a parent who put their kids in a room with a poison fruit and told the kids not to eat it but then also put the best con artist in the room with the children knowing the con artist will get the kids to eat the fruit and the parent does nothing to stop it a good parent?

Point 1: “The reason why the Serpent was able to deceive was because God designed him to do so.” That’s like arguing the reason mankind robs and kills is because God designed them to do so. God gave man freewill and didn’t make them robots. Adam and Eve had a choice to rebel or remain obedient. God was aware of everything that would take place. Christians were predestined for Christ before the world began according to the Bible (Eph. 1:4-6). Adam and Eve innately knew good. They didn’t know both good and evil until the fruit’s tree revealed it to them. God created all things and called everything good. We were made in His likeness and inherit understanding of good. Adam and Eve knew right from wrong. They knew it would be wrong to disobey God that’s why they hid when they sinned. Evil is different from wrong. The tree of knowledge of good and evil revealed to them what evil is. Evil is more than sin. Adam and Eve had an idea of sin, but they didn’t have an idea of evil. Point 2: God didn’t lie. The moment they ate from the forbidden fruit, they died spiritually. Not only that, but they also introduced death into the world and began the dying (aging process) process. Jesus sacrificed Himself so that our spirits would be redeemed and restore our spirits to life. Without Christ, everyone is spiritually dead. And the serpent lied, by the way. In Gen. 3:1, the serpent said, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’” God didn’t say this at all. In Gen. 2:16, God said, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil…” Satan added a restriction that God never placed. Satan wanted Eve to focus on the one tree God said she couldn’t have, instead of focusing on the many trees that God said she was free to eat from. Point 3: The curse added hardship to the toiling of the ground. Adam was given jobs: to till the garden and name the animals. There was joy in labor before the curse. Ask any blue collar worker if an 8 to 5 is all roses today. Point 4: You made this up. Adam’s sin introduced death into the world. Romans 5:12 says, “When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam's sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned.” Romans 6:23 says, “The wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Going back to God’s quote in Genesis 2:17, “But the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil you shall not eat, for in the day you eat of it you shall surely die.” God warned Adam and Eve that they would lose their mortality if they sinned. The Tree of Life is not the source of immortality. Death was not in the world before Adam sinned. Adam and Eve never ate from the Tree of Life. They only entered into death because they disobeyed God. Adam’s sin introduced both spiritual and physical death. Point 5: No no no…When God ever asks you a question, it is not for Him to gain information. When you find cookies missing from the cookie jar and confront your 3-year-old child, you might say something to the extent: “Were you in the kitchen this morning eating the cookies from the cookie jar?” That question is not intended for your education. You already know they were in the cookie jar that morning. Then you might say, “What is this thing you have done?” so that the child will self-reflect their infraction. Point 6: The passage you are quoting here is all prophecy. If you look closely enough, you’ll see that Jesus is also prophesied. They didn’t know who Jesus is at the time, yet God spoke of the future in advance. Secondly, Adam was born speaking. He had all original language and vocabulary innately instilled within him from day one. Adam and Eve skipped a lot of things. They never had to learn to walk, learn to speak, etc. They knew what bread was because it was part of their vocabulary. This answers your cherubim critique as well. Just 2 generations from Adam? Recall how long each generation lived in those days. The industrial age only took less than a century to become well established. Mankind lived for centuries in Adam’s day, and knowledge was instilled into mankind from the beginning, as I already pointed out. And by the way, Satan started the first war. Revelation 12:7-10 tells us that there was a battle in Heaven before mankind. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon (Satan) and his angels. Satan was cast down to Earth. There were angelic swords even before the garden of Eden. Point 7: Your last point is based on your unfounded world view. Science never trumps the Bible. Does science explain the source of consciousness? The Bible does. It teaches we are made up of body, soul, and spirit. Does science even have a logical explanation of the creation of anything? No, it says that nothing created everything. Evolution cannot create gender because evolution cannot create in pairs. Where did gender come from? Where did the information of DNA come from? Real science has a law: conservation of mass and conservation of energy, which both state that nothing cannot create something. A Big Bang of nothingness cannot create something. It can never create information. Extra Point: You keep quoting nonbiblical stories. Non-biblical stories only affirms the Genesis account. If all people derived from Noah, Noah shared the preflood history with his children, who had descendants and spread throughout the Earth. These tribes that spread out would pass down history orally. Naturally the nonbiblical stories would have parallel features that mimic the true Genesis account of the history of mankind. The Bible didn’t come from those stories; it’s the other way around.

Enjoy your channel. Do you mean to say that a *Bible story and fable* got *the natural world wrong !?* I am shocked and appalled ;-)

What God was saying was that if the man that sined ate of the tree of life they would live for ever. You must remember they ate of the tree and were spiritually dead that same day and were going to die later of old age. So God was talking from that point of view. The point of view of after the fall. What God meant was now that they had sinned and were going to die he didn't want them to eat of the free of life and live for ever in there fallen state.

How did I end up here

For # 7 just think of seed as DNA. They didn’t know DNA back then and if you talk to Drs that know DNA you DNA can be traced back to our ancestors. In addition DNA can be damaged due to a traumatic experience. That is my understanding but you are entitled to call it seed.

Yes, Seeds, Spermatozoids, Ovules, Genetics, DNA Inheritance... expressed with the words of ancient people: SEEDS!

God did NOT tell Adam and Eve about a sword. All of this being said was said as narration, supposedly, by god to Moses. This was NOT an oral tradition passed down from Adam to Seth, to Enosh and on and on. God supposedly told all of this to Moses.....which has its own problems The bread bit, I can agree with you on

Awesome video! Some clarifications to Issue 5, where God seems limited in his abilities, and you mentioned his omniscience.. 'Omniscience' is actually a Greek metaphysical attribute that comes from Platonism, a kind of Greek philosophy. The idea that God is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, immutable, simple, and other attributes is not actually found in the bible. Christians actually steal those attributes from Platonism in order to make their case for traditional Christianity, a massive intellectual embarrassment. The actual god of the bible Yahweh, is a finite, personal demiurge that actually does have limited abilities. At the end of the day God is still more powerful and intelligent than the rest of us, but not all-powerful or all-knowing. He's more a cosmic super-hero.

I can but agree that the version of the events which most people (including most "preachers" as far as I can tell) believe and parrot about what happened in the garden has "glaring issues". And I believe this is because they don't apply even basic logical thinking to what the Book actually says. The "talking snake" bit, for instance, is to me just as silly as it sounds, because I bothered to check what the original Hebrew word that is substituted with the term 'serpent' is. It's a term that meant "to hiss". Anyone who whispers is hissing (try it, you'll see). What I believe God was warning A and E about is believing what they imagined, as if their imaginations were a reliable source of truth. No different really than when a parent tells a small child not to be believe there's a monster in the closet just because their mind can "see" one lurking in there. Obviously, our minds can trick us into believing all sorts of untrue things if we don't realize that what we can see in our minds is not reality. So yes, they were "set up to fail", sometimes, when God gave them imaginations. As we all are when we are born with one. But what's the alternative? The being whispering to Eve that she could be like God if she merely trusted her imagination, was lying, and Eve was too naive to realize it was. And instead believed God had lied to her about it, because He didn't want them to be like Him. And the rest is history, so to speak ; )

Another possibility is that the tree of life is something that needs to be eaten of everyday

yes when we're dealing with a God who can supposedly do ANYTHING, creating a sword out of metal before.metal was created would just be a little too much lol

Good content. I guess the first man and woman knew how to make bread.

There's god, the serpent, Adam and eve, who's shirley?

We tell our children who do not touch certain things in the kitchen because they need to learn..... One thousand years is one day to the most this is why no one ever live to be one day to father they died within the Thousand-Year.....

The story stinks to high heaven.

Attacking the first chapters of Genesis by science is a category confusion. Trying to support the first chapters of Genesis by science is a category confusion. Different types of knowledge with differing methodological assumptions.

Why did God do that? Was it a test?

I'm having problems defending a 6000yr old universe..........

Eve was deceived, but Adam wasn't. He knew better.

You wouldn't die you would still be A spirit. Do spirits die ?

#6 Yahweh Elohim and Adam looked over the animals as possible mates for Adam and when none of them pleased him, *then* Yahweh ripped Adam’s rib out to form Eve.

He said you shall eat bread because if you remember people use the term bread as a term for food. Moses is the one that wrote it so by that time the term was probably already in uses. So when God said that he meant food. You are making another problem out of nothing.

Here's a mind teaser for you. You walking through a field and see a completely naked dead person. You immediately recognize them as Adam. How did you do it? You could do it with Eve too either one.

Justin you don't make any sense. Go get help.... Clown 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

@ :30 you state “I would imagine”. That right there is the problem. You are imagining a meaning when the meaning has already been established. It may be unintentional but this is a sand man argument at best. Adam & Eve was not set up. Not in the Apostolic Christian view. As we are talking about the religion of Jesus Christ that is important. The proclamation is that God created mankind to dwell in His love. He then created us with free will for we cannot love something without the freedom to make that choice. The serpent was temptation to love and glorify one’s self instead of God and each other. We don’t know whether the seventh was speaking audibly or if the serpent was Eve’s thoughts. Either way the lesson of the story remains the same. You realize Genesis is an allegory?

The glaring issue is that you are reading this Jewish ancient foundational myth from a Christian doctrinal and dogma lens. The second glaring issue is that you are even bothered by the myth.

Because it's based on World Mythology

Also keep in mind, when God was finished creating mankind he said it was good so he wanted Adam and Eve to not know right from wrong,

God didn’t know where the serpent came from he just knew it came from earth correct?

He knew where they were he was just saying that like when you ask your kid if they ate the cake when you know it was them that did. We do that our selves all the time. You know that is not a problem.

1. Yes, God set things up a certain way. That is not an issue. It’s his creation 2. metaphors often involve language that out of context can only mean one thing. “He’s a pig” does not mean he is a literal pig even though out of context a pig can only mean one thing. However, the spiritual death experienced by Adam and Eve is also pretty literal if you believe in the existence of souls and the consequences of the sins they inevitably commit after being given knowledge. The serpent was only partially right as though Adam and Eve now know good and evil it’s absurd to say they are like God 3 clearly toiling in the garden with unlimited food is better than toiling the earth which God curses to be even more difficult to work than it is now 4 Jesus is the tree of life. He’s often compared to things like living water, bread, things that give eternal life. It does not say that God himself relies on this tree for his immortality. Immortality is also not only “the only thing” that distinguishes God from man as God offers immortality to all that believe on his son like in John 3:16. 5. People ask questions to which they know the answer all the time. Calling out to Adam does not mean he didn’t know where he was. Parents sometimes let there kids admit to things which they already know their kids did. 6. This is honestly the weakest one imo. It’s another example of us trying to impose our modern sense of morality on an omnipotent omniscient creator of the universe. I understand you don’t believe in said deity but the fact that our culture has a very hypocritically negative attitude towards any kind of violence doesn’t indicate any flaw in the internal consistency of Genesis 7. The Christian belief in the very concept of sin is predicated on belief in God and the Bible itself. So spiritual filth and impurity are a non-falsifiable phenomenon that we believe because faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God, that is, from divine revelation which you may accept or reject but which again is not a “glaring issue” in Genesis. It just highlights the difference between scientifically-verifiable beliefs and religious ones. The stronger arguments against the Bible which use science try to establish a more concrete contradiction between what we have discovered through scientific investigation and what the Bible say about physically observable phenomena

They did die they died spiritually. That was what God was talking about, not physically Just because you do not agree with God's logic doesn't mean you are right and God was wrong.

Eve was NOT commanded against eating of the tree, only Adam was. Eve was NOT cursed because she ate....she was cursed because she ADDED to the commandment by saying "neither shall we touch it". For starters, adding her into it, AND adding the stipulation against touching.....also, she gave it to her husband. 3 things Eve did.

Next up: The Deconstruction Zone takes on "The Cat in the Hat."

The Bible is a historical fiction book.

So many glaring issues in the bible .. can't see why people still believe in it ))

MYTHOLOGY: If I believe the Bible, then I believe God had it in His Plan, and knew the Future. That my Loving Father God made Lucifer, knowing he would become the great Deceiver, the Evil One aka Satan and cast him down into the Playground with His Children. Then when His Children are deceived by him, God will Blame His Children for being deceived by the one God put there. It doesn't make sense and therefore is Not True. It is Mythology.

Dang! I was 4 'likes' from making it 666!!

Folk Eiteology.

#7 Eve is the mother of all life even tho she was the last life created in Genesis 2.

Cherubim = Oxen aka Taurus and spring equinox (morning). The flaming sword = sword of Perseus. In the cool of Evening = autumn equinox.

I think GOD is trying to know who you are personally.

These would have been "Glaring Issues" for me 10 years ago! But since then, I've developed a personal relationship with God and have joined the Seventh Day Adventist church, and every issue you raised here, I answered with relative ease! I would challenge you to deeply study your Bible and ask God to reveal Himself to you! Additionally, there are two books that will open your eyes to the world we live in. 1) The great controversy. 2) Steps to Christ. God bless!