as a non-believer it's important to understand why folks hold their beliefs
that's why i'm slowly making my way through the king james bible and seeing if it does
actually have proof in its claims this is an atheist's reaction to genesis chapter 2
hello i'm the skeptic i watch videos on youtube that make extraordinary claims whether that's
flat earth or strange conspiracies but mostly the claim that a god is real and then explain why i
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in bible belt america having moved from the united kingdom earlier this year i should probably start
understanding exactly what it is that christians believe when it comes to the bible this book is
often used as a way of demonstrating truth so i want to see exactly what it says chapter by
chapter to see if you really can't deny that it is the truth you can see my previous bible reaction
video in the description and this video will be added to a playlist of bible reading and reacting
in order chapter 2 verse 1 thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them
starting a chapter with an ending great writing style but still no closer to knowing if
what is claimed actually happened 2-2 and on the seventh day god ended his work which he had made
and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made it's very repetitive i guess
that writers felt that reiterating points gave more validity well spoiler alert it doesn't 2-3
and god blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because that in it he had rested from all his work
which god created and made if god was all-powerful why on earth would he need a rest and also if this
god was outside of space and time as many theists suggest it would have been around long before the
earth was created and in the eyes of believers since there was nothing before there was something
and this god was actually doing nothing it would have been well rested to do more than six days
work sounds like a very lazy entity to me two four these are the generations of the heavens and of
the earth when they were created in the day that the lord god made the earth and the heavens the
word are is an italics on what i'm reading here which suggests stressing this point these are the
generations i'm sorry bible but writing things in italics or stressing points in certain ways
doesn't add any more truth to it 2-5 and every plant of the field before it was in the earth
and every herb of the field before it grew for the lord god had not caused it to rain upon the earth
and there was not a man to till the ground well hang on this is a huge contradiction
didn't god create man in chapter 1 verse 27 so god trusted man in his own image and the
image of god cralted her home male and crawl to tall then yes yes it did 2-6 but there went
up a mist from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground or we don't understand how
the water cycle works because when this book was written we didn't have the science available so
we'll explain observable evaporation as a floaty sky man did it 2 7 and the lord god formed man of
the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a
living soul didn't we just establish that man was created in the previous chapter i'm going to have
to start keeping track of these face palms also i guess we should remember that in this instance man
was formed from the dust on the ground 2 8 and the lord god planted a garden eastward in eden
and there he put the man who he had formed we'd better remember that too though no one really
knows where eden is apparently theist scholars all agreed that it was southern mesopotamia wouldn't a
god have just named it the garden of mesopotamia if that was actually the case rather than leaving
it ambiguous i could get many people to agree that either was actually my backyard that doesn't
make it true 2-9 and out of the ground made the lord god to grow every tree that is pleasant
to the sight and good for food the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of
knowledge of good and evil although this god had already made trees in the previous chapter unless
this is earth 2.0 though there's been nothing to say that god scrapped the first version maybe
he lost it did its earth build software crash and it had to start again or is this just yet another
undemonstrated claim 2 10 and 11 and a river went out of eden to water the garden and from thence
it was parted and became into four heads the name of the first is pison that is it which compasses
the whole land of havilah where there is gold apparently this havalar and i don't know if i'm
saying that right is referring to the modern river aracs which is very close to georgia and was well
known for being a major player in gold production at the time that the bible was written so this is
hardly a surprise 212 and the gold of that land is good there is dellium and the onyx stone great
thanks for pointing out where something can be found often theists say claims like this prove
the bible to be true i'm sorry they really don't a book is merely pointing out that something can be
found in a place you'd have to demonstrate that the writers would have had absolutely no idea
that these things could be found interestingly i've had many conversations with muslims about
knowing the truth of the quran and they often say the people of that time lived in the desert
and wouldn't have known these things how on earth could you ever demonstrate that 2 13 and 14 and i
apologize if i don't say these places right and the name of the second river is gihon the same
is it that compasseth the whole land of ethiopia and the name of the third river is hiddikel
that is it which goeth towards the east of assyria and the fourth river is euphrates again thanks for
pointing out where things can be found but not demonstrating that this book actually is the
word of god 2 15 and the lord god took the man and put him into the garden of eden to dress it and to
keep it didn't this god just put the man in eden seven verses ago have the writers forgotten what
they put that fast or was the man that was put in the garden just wandering around aimlessly
and the god had to keep grabbing it and putting it back 2 16 and 17 and the lord god commanded
the man saying of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat but of the tree of knowledge of
good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die
how did something that was created out of dirt only moments before understand what this being
was saying it couldn't even stand still 2 18 and the lord god said it is not good that the man
should be alone i will make him and help meet for him well that sentence doesn't make sense
219. and out of the ground the lord god formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the
air and brought them unto adam to see what he would call them and whatsoever adam called every
living creature that was the name thereof again god did this in chapter one so he either lost
his work or forgot he'd already done it and hang on when did the dust made human get named adam
if this god was going with one of the first names in the name dictionary maybe aaron would have been
better although dusty has a certain ring to it given that he was supposedly made of dust
220 and adam gave names to all cattle and to the fowl of the air and to every beast of the field
but for adam there was not found and help meat for him again with the help me who even says that just
say partner 221 and the lord god caused a deep sleep to fall upon adam and he slept and he took
one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof the god didn't even ask lack of consent
much if a god was all-powerful he could have just made a rib instead of taking something without
asking 222 and the rib which the lord god had taken from the man made he a woman and brought her
unto the man this is absolute nonsense how could anyone believe that this is how people came to be
it's never been demonstrated that people are made from dust ever once it has been this can
be accepted as the truth until then it's just a terrible story that has no real substance
i'm going back to trudy cannavan's wilds trilogy after this 2 23 and adam said this is now bone of
my bones and flesh of my flesh she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man hey aaron
or adam or dusty whatever your name is read the previous verse the god literally just said that
the rib creation was called woman 2 24 therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother
and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh once a man leaves his family he needs
to stick to his wife what if the man is gay what if the woman doesn't want to be stuck to there's
so much wrong with this and it's only chapter 2 in a very very very long book 225 and they were both
naked the man and his wife and were not ashamed that's good but still nothing here demonstrates
the truth of the claims it does already start showing contradictions was man created before or
after eden because it reads that the man and beast were created before eden but then again afterwards
use that information as you well slowly but surely understanding exactly what is written in the bible
will help when it comes to theological discussions with those that believe this particular version
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