Does the Bible make sense?
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006At the moment I’m reading “The Lion Graphic Bible: The Whole Story from Genesis to Revelation” by Mike Maddox. Its basically the Bible in Comic form. As a child I’ve been taught about the Bible, but now reading it I realise how little sense it makes. First God in the Bible suddenly decides to create the Heavens and the Earth. Then he creates animals and Adam and Eve and puts two trees into paradise. One is the “Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil” from which God forbade Adam and Eve to eat. The evil snake convinces them to eat from this tree. The first thing that comes to mind is why would God put a tree into the middle of Paradise and then forbid Adam to eat from it? And why was it forbidden? What could possibly be so evil about a tree? And what motive could the snake have (which God created) to seduce Adam and Eve to eat from it? Also what is the connection from eating from a “forbidden tree” and suddenly feeling ashamed of one’s nakedness? And I wonder how Adam and Eve populated the planet without incestuous relationships? The story later continues with God being unhappy about the world which had become “corrupted” and he decides to kill off all humans except Noah and a few others who save the species on their huge ship. Why did God think that this would improve things, since the genetic code of humans hadn’t been changed by him? If he was unhappy with his creation wouldn’t it make more sense to re-create a new species? And how did Noah manage to pack a whole zoo on his ship and feed them for 40 days? By that time the lions would have eaten the gazelles for sure.
One could argues of course that the Bible is only symbolic and can not be taken at face value. Anyway I will keep reading, if you are interesting in the Graphic Bible, click on the click below.