At one point in time, I did want to get this off the ground. Sadly, reviewing websites didn't hold my interest. If anyone is still actively checking this blog for updates, I apologize for my long stint of inactivity. I am going to re-purpose this blog and move on to other things, mostly my philosophy, my theories and my religious views. If you don't like it, tough shit. There's other blogs out there you can read. If you want to debate, I'm down for that, but keep in mind that I will shut you down if you start arguing instead of debating; twice as fast if you start insulting me specifically. And, if you can't keep your mind open and know it, don't bother.
Lately I've been hard to reach, been too long on my own
Everybody has a private world where they can be alone
Are you calling me? Are you trying to get through?
Are you reaching out for me, like I'm reaching out for you?
I will be working on my own interpretation of the bible; not to disprove God based on the assumptions or limited understanding of past civilizations or the assumptions and limited understanding of our own, current civilization; but to prove that God can still exist when coupled with modern-day thinking and scientific analysis; and, as a bonus, point out to people in general how much of an asshat they've been for perpetuating ignorance and close-mindedness.
Anywho:
Genesis
Chapter 1
"IN the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth. And the Earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, let there be light; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light day and the darkness he called Night And the evening and the morning were the first day."
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Basically, this explains the beginning of everything. The Creation of the cosmos. Earth did not exist, yet. Darkness was on the face of the deep and the deep was space. Water, I think, was a euphemism given to space to symbolize the nature of it; the vacuum that causes men to suffocate, so when it says God's face moved upon the waters; it tends to point to it moving across space; which, in turn, symbolizes that something major occurred at this point in time, much like a big bang. This is supported by God's creation of light and that it divided the night and day; as now there existed a contrast to the darkness of space.
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"And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day."
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This tends to point to the fact that at some point in time, Earth began to develop an atmosphere; due to the magnetic pull of its inner core; thus separating the waters of our planet from the 'waters' of space; i.e. Heaven.
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"And God said, let the waters under Heaven be gathered together unto one place and let the dry land appear; and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth and the gathering together of waters called he seas; and God saw that it was good."
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With the creation of an atmosphere, the waters upon the Earth are now able to settle and sit in one place; thus land would appear for the first time and stay in view.
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"And God said, Let the Earth bring forth grass, and herb yielding seed, and the tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the Earth; and it was so. And the Earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind, and God saw that it was good. And the evening the morning were the third day."
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After the atmosphere appeared and the waters settled; and dry land appeared from beneath the waters; life began to grow.
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"And God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days, and years; And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the Earth; and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the Earth. And to rule over the day and over the night and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day."
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Before this moment, one has to assume that the 'Big Bang'; or whatever you wish to call the creation of everything; had created some form of lesser light; as God had already created light in the universe and this light is different; more defining. One would have to assume that at this point, our sun, and the suns of other worlds that we call stars; come into existence. It also points out that Earth had a moon already at the time that the stars first came on the scene; which makes sense when you consider that Earth already had its own source of gravity.
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"And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind; and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the sea and let the fowl multiply in the Earth. And the evening and morning were the fifth day."
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At this point of history; all the things were in place for the creation of more complex organisms. Before there had been plants, but now there was more oxygen, more water; a more liveable habitat for things that have lungs and need to feed. Does this discredit the dinosaurs? No. Simply put, most of the animals in existence today have evolved from dinosaurs or from early mammals that existed during the age of the dinosaurs and were able to survive. This also points to the fact that all life stems from the waters; which science has also stated. One has to understand that the early age of man had no knowledge of Dinosaurs when creating these stories and simply could not fathom such a thing because they had no knowledge of it and could not observe it themselves. They named creatures they did have experience with.
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"And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind; and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind and cattle after their kind and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind; and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 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. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day."
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Even more complex creatures came into being; basically the cattle, insects, bugs and crawly things and then finally man at the very last. It states that God created man in his image and in the image of the angels and gave dominion of the earth to man. This could be taken in a variety of ways; usually man's own egotism comes into play; but I think that we were created to be the shepherds of this planet, to care for it and to expand and multiply so that we could continue to be able to tend for everything. This says nothing about mankind eating meat and instead points to the idea that we should eat vegetables and fruits while keeping in mind that the animals and everything else also eat vegetables and fruits and that we are all equal, even though God gave us the intelligence and bodies to be above all others. Time has proven our egotism to be fruitless and in the pursuit of being better than everything, we show how much worse we are.
This ends Chapter 1 of Genesis. I just have to say that the 'days' that God worked; were probably not days in the sense that we think of days. There is no telling how much time entered into a single day back then. Also, one has to keep in mind the simple nature of story-tellers, to gloss over a large amount of time in their story-telling and make it appear to be less. It is also said that a day in God's life is a thousand years, or more, in our lives, so... give and take there. No matter what, all of this could not have happened in six days time. It takes millions of years for life to grow on a chunk of rock in space; let alone the amount of time for that rock to develop its own atmosphere and gravity.
Of course, one could also point out that at the beginning of everything, we were closer to the source and thus time and everything else moved at a faster pace; and as we get further and further away from the source; the slower time goes. We don't know. We don't know anything for sure and it's impossible to prove anything, though logic and reason do a go a long way to sorting things out and seeing the possibility for multiple things to exist within the same sphere.
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