A question about the Hoaxy Bible...?

Question

Sorry about the "hoaxy" thing I just wanted to get your attention.
If the bible, specifically the book of Genesis, is supposed to be the authority about the creation of life on earth, why is the creation of bacteria & viruses omitted. This is not a "if god exists, why is there suffering" question, so don't give me any answers about the wickedness of the world, I won't even read them.
My question is how can the creation of life-forms so important to humans, being both a detriment and a benefit, be omitted from a book that is supposedly the supreme authority?
Could it be the bible is a relic of a past time and no longer has any relevance? If there is scripture I may not have considered, feel free to give it to me.

Foxtrot: That is a convenient and vague explanation! Bacteria live in land, air and water.

voice_of_reason: That's what I said in the question. Learn to comprehend.

Foxtrot: If I'm not understanding on purpose why did take man so long to discover bacteria, all he had to do was look in his bible. Face it, your antiquated book explains nothing.

victor 7707: That explaination is hackneyed and stupid. Why does bacteria have to a sign of imperfection, many are beneficial to us. That's like saying fish are a sign of imperfection because some are poisonous and can hurt us.

Answer 1

It's not mentioned because these things are not of God. Anymore than polio, measles, mumps or any other disease are listed. Everything was perfect. Man's decision to think like mortal man brought all the ills into our existence. We co-create with God. He passed that trait on to us. Put a small child on a beach and instinctively that child will start to build sand castles. Man wants to create. Unfortunately, its not always for the good. The thoughts we entertain do indeed manifest into reality.

Answer 2

The Bible is not a hoax, It didn't set out to be authority, It was edited that way.

The first five books of the Bible, called the Torah or the Pentateuch or the Five Books of Moses. It has long been recognized that there were a few problems with the traditional view of Moses as author. The text reports the death of Moses--how could Moses have written of his own death? It also describes Moses as "the most humble man who ever lived"--how could Moses write that about himself?

Several stories are repeated, with different characters or different emphasis (called "doublets"). For instance, there are two creation stories (Gen 1 and Gen 2).

There are internal inconsistencies. Scholars in late 18th century Germany noted that in most of the duplicated stories, one set described God using the Hebrew word Elohim (usually translated "God") while the other set tended to use God's four-lettered Name Y-H-W-H (usually translated "Lord," sometimes miscalled "Jehovah.") This gave rise to the theory that there were two different authors, one called E and one called J (German for Y), whose works were somehow combined to form a single text.

Later analysis of the grammar, vocabulary, and writing style provided evidence for two other authors--called P for the Priestly author (mostly Leviticus, and lots of the genealogy) and D for the Deuteronomist, since the book of Deuteronomy seemed different (grammatically and politically) from the earlier books. The multiple-author view has come to be called the "Documentary theory."

Approximately 450 BC - This is perhaps the most remarkable part of the story, as the Redactor emerges on the scene. He sees the need for religious revival and renewal, for strengthening and centralization. So he combines the three documents (JE, P, and D) into one smooth flowing narrative--the five books of Moses.

The Redactor did lots of cutting and pasting. Genealogies that probably started all together in a P-text were interspersed throughout JE, acting as bridging material or section dividers. Materials that told the same story from pro-Aaron and anti-Aaron viewpoints (for example) were neatly woven together.

The Redactor was respectful of his sources and kept them largely intact. These were all sacred and ancient texts/traditions, so the Redactor presumably didn't drop material--duplication was preferable to omission. Sometimes he combined the different texts; sometimes he left the two stories side by side.

What you end up with is a joke, God creates light and separates light from darkness, and day from night, on the first day. Yet he didn't make the light producing objects (the sun and the stars) until the fourth day (1:14-19). And how could there be "the evening and the morning" on the first day if there was no sun to mark them?

God creates light and separates light from darkness, and day from night, on the first day. Yet he didn't make the light producing objects (the sun and the stars) until the fourth day (1:14-19). And how could there be "the evening and the morning" on the first day if there was no sun to mark them?

Plants are made on the third day before there was a sun to drive their photosynthetic processes (1:14-19). Notice, though, that God lets "the earth bring forth" the plants, rather than creating them directly. Maybe Genesis is not so anti-evolution after all.

God placed the sun, moon, and stars in the firmament so that they can be used "for signs". This, of course, is exactly what astrologers do: read "the signs" in the Zodiac to predict what will happen on Earth.

Then why are only a tiny fraction of stars visible from earth? Under the best conditions, no more than a few thousand stars are visible with the unaided eye, yet there are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy and a hundred billion or so galaxies. Were they all created "to give light upon the earth"?

In Genesis 1 the entire creation takes 6 days, but the universe is about 13.7 billion years old, with new stars constantly being formed. You work it out!

Answer 3

Id suppose it goes right along with the idea of genesis being written in the perspective of as if a human as there watching it take place. Which included the microscopic organisms, which can't bee seen from the naked eye. Also back than, when everything was created, the microscopic bacterias and such didn't really matter to humans, because they didn't bother them. the bacteria and such only helped continue the cycle of nature. (rotting away things and such). They were just part of god's way of having the planet control itself, to be the perfect host for humans. It wasn't until after the sin of Adam, and the introduction of sin, that sickness and disease started, and when microscopic organisms began to become important, and dangerous to human kind.

Answer 4

At the time the Bible was written people did not know about microbes. I know there are a lot of religious people who want to believe that the Bible magically appeared in God
s own handwriting and a lot of non religious people who want to attack that point of view. In fact the Bible was written and compiled over a long period of time within many historical contexts. Yes you could say that the Bible is a relic of a past time but to say it no longer has any relevance is like saying Shakespeare's plavs or Gone With the Wind no longer have any relevance. It's like saying the US Constitution no longer has any relevance. Be careful about dissing the wisdom of the past.

Answer 5

Could it be the bible is a relic of a past time and no longer has any relevance?

Yes and no. For fact finding purposes - YES. For entertainment and maybe a smidgen of history - NO.

Answer 6

The word translated earth means earth but it also
means everything on and in the earth. In the King
James Version, in Genesis, the phrase “everything
that creepeth upon the earth” is written. However,
the Hebrew meaning is “all the things with which
the earth creeps”. This takes into account what
science calls microorganisms, microscopic animals,
plants, bacteria, viruses, etc.

Answer 7

In the Garden of Eden before man sinned there was no bacteria or virsus. Everything was perfect as God wanted it to be. But man felled. And sin entered into the world, besides man God doesn't have to tell us his secrets of how he formed this world, God is the Potter, we are the Clay!! Remember, we believe in him by Faith. We love Jesus because he first loved us... Right???

Answer 8

Since in OT times, the science of bacteria and viruses had not yet come into its own (in other words they would not have known what the heck you were talking about), God simply gave them laws to live by to prevent them from poisoning themselves.

You got a problem with that?

Answer 9

I guess that means microbes spontaneously generated themselves. Darn godless microbes. Go figure.

Answer 10

remove the bugs, bacteria, viruses (El Allah did not reveal this yet or show them a microscope) and the whole world collapses, as there are both harmful and yet necessary ones to exist