Seriously Christians, don't you sometimes think that the Genesis story is a little well....ridiculous?

Question

C'mon you can admit it here! Confess!

absolutely incredible! I'm sure you also believe in fairy godmothers and witch stepmothers too....can you say "brainwash"?!

Answer 1

To those who do not believe in it then I guess yes it is to them

For me however, I chose to believe

Answer 2

IT's like this: It's a ridiculous story IF it's not true. If it is true, you have some thinking to do.

I am not a Christian because of anything to do with what I believe about Genesis. I am a Christian because I believe in Jesus, who is the Christ, and I trust Him for salvation.

After all these years, other things have been added.

So the choice is the same. Will you believe it, or will you go your own way, or follow someone of something else. It always gets to that point.

Answer 3

It depends. If you do not believe in an all powerful god, then, yes it seems silly. If you actually DO believe in an all powerful god, then no, it seems plausible.

If you know anything about probability and statistics, doesn't the belief that everything just evolved by random chance seem ridiculous too? If you do the math, it seems silly that anyone would believe it. Yet lots of people have "faith" that someone somewhere will eventually explain it all.

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...Many researchers have concluded that the probability of life arising by chance is so remote that we have to label it an impossibility. For example, Hoyle (1983) notes that the probability of drawing either ten white or ten black balls out of a large box full of balls that contains equal numbers of black and white balls is five times out of one million! If we increase the number to 100 and draw sets of 100 balls, the probability of drawing 100 black or 100 white balls in succession is now so low as to be for all practical purposes impossible.

To illustrate this concept as applied in biology, an ordered structure of just 206 parts will be examined. This is not a large number—the adult human skeleton, for example, contains on the average 206 separate bones, all assembled together in a perfectly integrated functioning whole. And all body systems—even our cells’ organelles—are far more complex than this.

To determine the possible number of different ways 206 parts could be connected, consider a system of one part which can be lined up in only one way (1 x 1); or a system of two parts in two ways (1 x 2) or 1, 2 and 2, 1; a system of three parts, which can be aligned in six ways (1 x 2 x 3), or 1, 2, 3; 2, 3, 1; 2, 1, 3; 1, 3, 2; 3, 1, 2; 3, 2, 1; one of four parts in 24 ways (1 x 2 x 3 x 4), and so on. Thus, a system of 206 parts could be aligned in 1 x 2 x 3 … 206 different ways, equal to 1 x 2 x 3 … x 206. This number is called “206 factorial” and is written “206!”.

The value 206! is an enormously large number, approximately 10388, which is a “1” followed by 388 zeros, or:

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000, 000, 000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
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Achievement of only the correct general position required (ignoring for now where the bones came from, their upside-down or right-side-up placement, their alignment, the origin of the tendons, ligaments, and other supporting structures) for all 206 parts will occur only once out of 10388 random assortments. This means one chance out of 10388 exists of the correct order being selected on the first trial, and each and every other trial afterward, given all the bones as they presently exist in our body.

If one new trial could be completed each second for every single second available in all of the estimated evolutionary view of astronomic time (about 10 to 20 billion years), using the most conservative estimate gives us 1018 seconds; the chances that the correct general position will be obtained by random is less than once in 10 billion years. This will produce a probability of only one out of 10(388–18) or one in 10370....

Answer 4

No, not at all. I believe science supports a creation. What is more ridiculous I think is to believe:

First there was nothing....then it exploded.

Then some lifeless molecules got together and made life, figured out sexual reproduction, aquired mysteriously the ability to see, smell, feel, taste, and hear...

Aquire the ability of breathing air, the ability to crawl, digest food, form social groups and symbiotic relationships, turn eventually into ape like creatures and then human beings, that for SOME reason are incurrabley religeous.

All this with no scientific evidence to support it. No one ever saw it happen or sees it in action. No one can reproduce even a small portion of the process and THAT is supposed to be feasible.

Answer 5

If you try and read the Bible with a literal method you will test your patience but not learn much in the struggle. Those who profess to understand the literal meanings of the bible without an eye to culture, history and most importantly imagination fool the general public with ten cent degrees and cherry picking small portions of the book.
I my opinion, the New Testament is the treasure in terms of spiritually and religiosity. It is the story of Jesus that must be studied and understood to get the meanings of Christianity out of the ancient writings, And it is indeed an amazing story.

Answer 6

Yes, but to sit back and falsify the whole thing completely defeats the point of religion. To sit around and argue whether or not an invisible man made the Earth in 6 days is irrellevant, it can and won't be proved or disproved. However, to take the story as a didactic for moral behavior makes much sense. Did some chap named Noah build a huge party boat when the world suddenly filled with magic water? Not logically, no, as there are so many gajillions of animals and plants, let alone strange life unknown to Biblical figures. A better way to view the story is one of piety, self-sacrifice, and respect for all forms of life.

If Christians stopped saying "OMG the Grand Canyon was cut in a day becuz Noah said so!" or whatever, and started viewing religion the way it should be viewed - a code for a peaceful, friendly, unified world, we'd all be a lot better off.

Answer 7

It is only rediculous if you read it in terms of today's expressions and understanding of the world.

Expressions: The archaic definition of "heavens" was where birds fly. In today's language that would mean atmosphere, not cosmos.

"On the first day" - Today that means a 24 hour period. Then it had two meanings sundown to sundown and it also meant a period of time as in in "stage" of a process.

Understanding of the world: What did Mosses consider as the world, or the Earth? Only where he had walked and heard about. Had he heard about Asia, or the North Pole, or even Egypt, or San Francisco, or New York.

What did Moses know about? Well, I am sure you get the point.



How else was God going to answer Moses' question, "How did you create the Earth?Where did I come from? how did you create me?

Please excuse these exerpts from my book:

What is the 1st step of growing and loving?

Whether with a child or an isolated tribe in the Amazon forest, all communications must be in reference to their world of awareness.

Miss this point, and you will find yourself jumping around in the Bible; believing this, not believing that, and claiming this or that is only an analogy.

Example: When Moses kept asking and re-asking God to explain how he gave sunlight to the Earth, finally God probably said what he said back on Planet Big H when he okayed the launching of the atmospheric seeding capsules. "Let there be light, and there was light" (Once the pollutants of the Earth's atmosphere were removed, the rays from the Sun could reach the Earth's surface).
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(This very phrase "let there be light, and there was light" has been misinterpreted (misunderstood) to the point that some folks believe that God's words were magical, and thusly God created the Universe by simply speaking the words. It gets worse ...

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Some Bible translators have faced these dilemmas and have consequently translated the Bible "thought to thought" rather than word to word.

I suppose the answers are in the details, not the nitty-gritty details, but the details of Moses' world of understanding at the time of the Bible.

"In the beginning"; In the beginning of what? In reality these first few words of the Bible were related to Gods previous preparation for and future relationship with all humans, or at least the humans Moses was cognizant of.

To Moses, "In the beginning", meant in the beginning of everything he saw, understood, or could imagine ever existed. Isn't it the same with us today? When we contemplate "the beginning of all time" we are limited to what we have seen, understand, or can imagine ever existed.


The most amazing thing, to an atheist, must be that 3,000 years ago Moses and anyone else who read his scrolls knew the six stages of our evolution, and the exact order of their appearances (As confirmed by evolutionists, today).

Another amazing thing about the creation story in the Bible: Cloning was described for the first time in
the history of the world. Consequently, Moses and anyone else who read the Bible scrolls 3 thousand years ago knew about the phenomenon; They had no idea what it involved, but they were informed of it as a fact. How could they have possibly even conjured such a thought, unless God had mentioned it to Moses?
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But, what was Moses thinking when God told him, "In the beginning, I created the heaven and the earth"?

More importantly, what was God thinking when Moses asked, "Where did I come from?"

Should God have said?

"Well, I am somewhat reluctant to tell you, Moses. But, actually, you came from nowhere. I simply seeded your planet with some capsules of green yucky stuff. Then, after 550 million years of evolution, I transported some hominids from the Neanderthal Valley (or out of Africa) into my garden laboratory here on Earth. Then, I used a QFE (Quick Fix Evolutioner) to seed and grow your forehead so that you would have the ability to be .... an appealing, harmonious, clean, neat, healthy, wealthy, wise, generous, modest, confident, competent, compassionate, deep thinking, loving, feeling, imaginative, laughing, “joyable”, enjoyable, and productive human being."

Well, of course not, such an explanation would not have been understood by Moses.

Anyway, when Moses was told that he was created from tiny tiny things, like atoms and mutations in the image of God and his ancestors, along with other such bio-engineered mutations, he (Moses) probably understood the "tiny, tiny things" part of the explanation.

When Moses got back to camp, his neighbors must have asked, "Hey Moses, how did God create us?"

Moses obviously replied, "God created us from dust." (Dust was probably the smallest substance he could think of at the time. The Hebrew word "dust" means small particles.

I hope I haven't bored you.

Answer 8

No where near ridiculous. Can you prove through science why we are missing a day in space. 365 1/4 years. We are missing a day and the Bible shows us exactly where it went. Joshua 10:13,14 and II Kings 20:10,11

Answer 9

That is a ridiculous question for a serious Christian. Show your real self. C'mon.

Answer 10

I'd rather believe something ridiculous, than saying that my ancestor was a monkey. God created me as human from the begining to the end.

Answer 11

Not really but to translate it literally would be.

I believe in evolution also so I think that 7 days were actually a LOT longer. While god was working on the earth, days were calculated by His watch, not ours.

Who's to say a day was to God, one rotation of the Earth? I doubt it.