Tuesday, April 6, 2010

God's Wrath

These chapters of Genesis also show the huge sexist attitude the Bible has. How come the woman gets the blame for eating the fruit? It was the snake who tricked her into eating it. And why would that tree be in Eden in the first place? If God didn't want anyone to eat from it, why would he put it there?
The punishment to Eve was worse than any other, and I think it was very unfair. One of God's punishments to Eve was, "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." (Genesis 3:16)
After the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden, everything seemed to go wrong for God. Apparently evil struck Cain and he killed his brother Abel. God punished him and set a mark on him that every man who saw him had to kill him. I don't understand why God made the curse of revenge a sevenfold of times over Cain's murder. All he did was create violence among humans, and see that evil was what ruled most men's hearts.
Fortunately for him, Adam and Eve's third son, Seth, was good and had generations of good descendants. When God was already tired with his huge screw up of creation, he decided to get rid of everything and start over (like if the Earth was just a video game where you can restart countless times). He told Noah (who like his ancestors was like 600 years old and was considered young) to build an ark where he would save a pair of each species and simply cleared the Earth of life. Fortunately for future generations, after the flood God promised he would never interfere again in Earth matters. He places a rainbow every time there's a cloud to assure us we aren't going to die. But honestly who knows? God seems to have a very unstable personality in Genesis. If you get him angry enough, he just might forget to put the rainbow, and that's when we have to run for our sorry lives. I definitely hope he doesn't loose his temper any time while I'm alive (which hopefully won't happen, because unlike people at that time, life expectancy doesn't go above 80 years average in the older people countries).

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