re: #221 Anymouse 🌹

That’s a way to think about the story I haven’t heard before.

That leaves a few questions though: Where did those two people go? Why would people need protection from animals if God is omnipotent? The Bible doesn’t say where Cain’s wife came from (therefore one can only apply apologetics to the problem, aside from the issues of the origins of the Bible itself). There was no one around to observe either version of the creation story, and we do not know who wrote the stories down (and who edited them afterwards), &c.

Moreover, Genesis 1 has the problems of light being created before light producing objects (stars) were created (and at the end of that day as an afterthought creates about 600 sextillion stars), &c.

1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. (KJV) - pretty bad advice since there are a great many plants that are poisonous.

The whole story has insurmountable problems that can only be solved by people explaining what is supposedly God’s word. An omniscient god would not need people to explain his words.

Teh God would have just implanted all the knowledge stuff in our brains at birth, so there would be no room for debate.