By Gary DeVaney

^{Genesis 6:7-10 God decides, except for (8 people) Noah, his wife, his sons Shem, Ham and Japheth and their wives Who? Who? and Who? and some of each kind of animals (including serpents?), God would murder every living thing.}

Noah's Family

If God is a jealous God and if there is but one God, no other Gods to be jealous of, what is going on here? Paranoia? Schizophrenia? Is this God moral? Loving? Fair? Sane? Does the God depicted perform evil for His own pleasure? God is obviously not in control.

Did Noah leave any daughters behind to drown in the flood? How come Mrs. Noah has no name and says nothing? ,Was she angry with Noah, God and the whole setup?

By dealing with these questions and maybe some of your own, do you feel fear? Yes, we have been programmed eternal pain, but we were also programmed that this was a God of love. Do you see any love here? Granted, this study and awareness does take courage...

Intellect: The speed and accuracy of perceiving and understanding things. The ability to perceive relations and differences; it is distinguished outside of will and feeling.

If one emotionally does not want to make sense of things, one’s intelligence can definitely be affected by the feelings that make up his or her attitude.

Genesis 6:6-14 God spoke to Noah: Every living substance I have made, I will destroy from off the face of the Earth. Every thing that is in the Earth shall die.

What a model! If we are all God’s children, does this not qualify for child-abuse? Isn’t God clearing out "corrupt genes" that He, God Himself, created? Does it not take an imperfect creator to create something imperfect? Haven’t human fathers murdered their own beloved children due to their disappointments?　

Genesis 7:2 God said: Of every clean animal, take seven (7) pairs each, male and its mate aboard the ark; of unclean animals, take one (1) pair each.

The Saved Animals

Genesis 7:13 Noah, his wife (who), his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth and their three (3) wives entered the ark.

Burt Visotzky: I am a rabbi and I have a vested interest in promoting rabbinical tradition. I recognize that friendliness to women is not part of the tradition.

Who, right here, proves to be the greatest adversary? Are these deeds moral, fair, loving? "Good God" drowns all the living organisms. Man, obviously, has the power to give this God of the Universe enough pain to motivate this cruelest of all deeds. Frustrated babies behave better. In your Bible, has there been any mention of a Devil or any Satan, yet?

God creates mankind for His own pleasure (Revelation 4:11 KJV) than destroys men, women and their babies when He wasn’t pleased. Wasn’t God’s pleasure at the expense and suffering of others? Is this the success-model God left for human egos to follow and emulate?

Rabbi Burton Visotzky: God claims his creation is good then realized it wasn’t so good. God destroys his creation and starts all over again. God was dissatisfied in Himself. God ^{tries something. It isn’t right. He destroys it and tries again.}

So, Rabbi Visotzky, are you saying that reputed "Know-It-All" God was experimenting?　Gene Roddenberry: "We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing, all-powerful God who creates faulty humans and then blames them for His own mistakes."

Thank you, Gene Roddenberry!

Shopenhauer alluded to an infant god who walked away from his first infantile creation; a tottering, senile god who later died.

Was the Biblical God one of compassion? Did God show that He cared anything about the screaming, horrified mothers or the crying of their babies or the panic of all the drowning animals? No! God just complains about His disappointment, then carries out a murderous vengeance by destroying almost every life-form He had made. The Kicker is: With the sacrifice of all those lives, God still failed to destroy evil. Was God, Himself, the evil?

Karen Armstrong - former nun and writer: God (in Genesis) is an undeveloped child. He doesn’t know what He is doing. He has got to grow up and learn like the rest of us how to relate to other people.

Former Nun Karen Armstrong

What kind of God creates this kind of history? Any "animal-abuse" here?

Did God not love the other people?Are we protective of this God? Why? Isn’t it really fear? Do you love Him?

Is the Bible story of the flood where God wiped out all but 8 human beings a myth?

Do you feel that God did that or is the writer just telling us that for some reason?

Did humanity, Noah’s family, again, have to practice incest?

Isn’t everybody Hebrew? Where did Gentiles originate?

Was the Creator or His creation psychologically and /or morally impaired?

Many of these questions are yes or no questions. Can or will you answer them?　

Genesis 8:3-4 At the end of 150 days, the waters diminished and the ark landed on Mount Ararat.Feelings - we sometimes can’t really control; but, behavior, under the law, we must control. Hurt feelings are understandable. However, murderous behavior is criminal, illegal, and unacceptable. Did God’s feelings let Him down to do such heinous things to mankind?

Genesis 8:20-21 Noah built an altar and chose one from every clean animal and clean bird to sacrifice to God. God smelled the sweet odor of burning flesh and said to Himself: Since man’s desires are evil from the start, never again will I doom the Earth because of him.

Here is absolute evidence that Noah couldn’t have taken only one pair of animals each aboard the arc. Can’t this God’s desires and behavior be judged evil from the start? Why are people afraid that this God will end earth due to them. It says right here - He won’t. Don’t they trust His word?

Mind-set believers usually declare: I don’t want to talk about the facts. I want to only talk about the way I feel the facts should be. Most clergy set this model.

The Bible is a guidebook that comes across as often in error but never in doubt.

If apologists can have running commentaries on each Bible chapter, verse by verse, why can’t we? C. Dennis McKinsey

Later, as we shall see, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, with whom God covenants, (forms partnerships) practice incest, adultery, and polygamy. They lie, deceive, deal in slavery, and impregnate their slaves. Suddenly, there are people-a-plenty. Cities and nations are everywhere. For "sins", the Biblical God punishes innocent humans and has the most flawless animals sacrificed to Him. He murders others by war and disease.

^{When you pray, are you trying to tell God how to run His business?}

In accordance to the words of the Bible, the God of creation seems "most intelligent" to be able to make the Solar System, including Earth and its life forms. But considering the very words that make up the stories, does the Biblical God’s attitudes, characteristics, and deeds show intelligence concerning His ability to run the business of dealing fairly or successfully with the life forms on Earth?

God's Solar System?

In the book of Genesis, was this God incapable to get it right the first time, or, was He sinister? Was this God "evil" by creating, enjoying, and feeding on the pain, horror, and terror. Was this all for His pleasure? Wasn’t the Biblical God guilty of all the murdering and the sacrifices depicted in these Old Testament stories?

God, to have the flood that murdered all but a few life forms, had to be frustrated. He couldn’t control things so like a child with a temper tantrum he destroyed everything.

This is a God who Gods by trial and error? Where does the myth that God is infallible, omnipotent, all knowing, a competent God come from? Certainly not from these Bible stories. God seems human, deeply flawed, unsure of what’s happening.

What kind of people like the fact that God drowns His creation and their babies?　Karen Armstrong: I’m sorry. I can’t see the rainbow without also seeing the bloated bodies

and the animals and the mud. I take away from the story the idea of a developing God. We start off with an infantile God knocking down His sand castles - a regretful God Who learns maturity and in the process brutalizes humanity - which then passes on the burden of suffering to other people. Carol Gilligan, Ph.D., Professor / Psychologist: This is an imperfect God because God makes the same mistakes, again and again, like people do.

Genesis 9:1-3 God said to Noah and his sons: Be fruitful and multiply. All the animals, birds and creatures will dread and fear you. Every creature that is alive, I shall give you to eat.

What is God’s message, right here chapter and verse, for vegetarians?

Genesis 9:21-27 Noah got drunk and was naked. His son Ham saw him and told his brothers Shem and Japheth. They walked backwards and not looking at naked Noah, covered him. When Noah awoke, he cursed Canaan (Ham’s son) to be a slave.

Ham Uncovered Noah's Nakedness

Genesis 9:24-28 Noah woke up from his drunkenness and said: Cursed be Canaan, the lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers. Let Canaan be God’s slave. Catholic

Wasn’t Canaan Ham’s son? Wasn’t the "Land of Canaan" ultimately "The Promised Land"?

There is no evidence of any curse of Ham. Why is there any curse at all?

Pastor Arnold Murray preaches that Ham "uncovered his father's nakedness" - which means that Ham had sex and impregnated his own mother and that produced Canaan. Noah cursed Canaan because he wasn't Noah's son.Genesis 9:28 Noah died at 950 years of age.　Was God’s real agenda: Obey Me, which you can’t, so, I can bring upon you murder, deception, flood, and sacrifice? Was God a sadist inflicting pain on helpless creatures?

Did He then insist that they brought it upon themselves? Is murder, theft and deception our nature? If yes, who created our nature? How can you have it both ways?

Can you have a healthy relationship with a God who punishes you throughout eternity?

One Mennonite lady asked: Why did God create people He could not love? (Wow!)

Another stated: Many, whom God supported, disappointed Him and He turned on them.

Noah’s was a bad drinker. When Noah drank, the next day he had to do two (2) things. He had to come back to pick up his arc, and he had to bring back the arc he took.

God put an "evil serpent" in the "crib / garden" of his new, ignorant creation called "man".

Then, before the flood, God found evil and corruption in His new creation of mankind.

God could never make a mistake but, God did repent for creating mankind.

^{Next, "all knowing" God decided to murder, by drowning, every human being and animal life-form on planet Earth - minus just a few of each species.}

^{But, did God's brilliant, "know-it-all" action correct His problem?}

^No!

^{Brilliant, "know-it-all" God still found evil and corruption in his creation of mankind after the flood. Did "know-it-all God know that evil would survive the flood?}

^{Instead of killing the whole world again, all at once, God imposes on human individuals war, plagues, sickness and usually a painful death.}

^{Then, after death, God gives all the human souls, He does not want to grovel, worship and serve Him, Eternal Torment.}

^{Pastor Arnold Murray teaches the Bible, chapter and verse, on television. Here are some of his, out of the mainstream, answers to questions written in:Murray: Cain was not Adam’s son. Cain resulted from Eve having sexual relations with Satan, the serpent.}

^{Some preaching can certainly qualify as strange. Note: This is not what the Bible says in Genesis 4:1. Satan is not mentioned. Adam knew his wife and made her pregnant. GWD}

^{Pastor Murray? If Abel was good seed and Cain was bad seed, doesn’t that eliminate the possibility for Cain and Abel to be twins from the serpent’s (Satan’s) seed?}

^{Murray: Ham’s sin was Ham had sex with Noah’s wife, his mother. That is what Noah cursed Ham for.}

Noah Never Cursed Ham

^{Doesn’t Murray admit here that Noah did curse Ham?}

^{Pastor Murray points out in the English written Genesis to support his claim:Leviticus 18:8 The nakedness of your father or mother you shall not uncover. KJV}

^{Leviticus 20:11 The man who lies with his father’s wife uncovers his father’s nakedness. KJV}

^{Another related question - Rusty from California: Please explain the curse of Ham?}

^{Murray: You’ve been listening to preachers, because there was no curse put upon Ham and you’re mistaken. In Genesis 9, the curse was placed upon Canaan, not Ham, by Noah because Canaan was not Noah’s child. Ham uncovered the nakedness of his father which means according to Lev 20:11: Ham sexually seduced Noah’s wife (his mother). Canaan wasn’t Noah’s son, but Ham’s. Noah didn’t want to face Ham and drove him away and said he would be a servant to others. Some preachers amaze me. An act of intercourse changed his color? That’s the height of ignorance. My black brothers (Murray is white) are many times told they are part of this curse and that’s also idiocy and a lie.}

^{God created that race on the 6th day, He liked it. It was good. He created all races on the 6th day. Then, He created Adam because on the 8th day because He didn’t have a tender of the garden. But, there wasn’t a curse on Ham and it’s the traditions of men that make you ask the question and don’t feel bad. But, may all preachers that teach it feel bad and do their homework before they teach. Q: So, Adam was not the first man on Earth?}

^{Murray: There was a first Earth age and people (men only) before the age of Adam.}

                                                                                          ^{First Earth Age?}

^{Does that explain the millions of years that science claims before Biblical events?}

^{Murray states that Genesis supports, in the original manuscripts, that the Earth is millions of years old. He insists that there was a 1st Earth age prior to the human beings created on the 6th day of creation, long before the popular story of Adam and Eve. Murray states that Adam and Eve were specifically created on the 8th day so to tend God’s garden and to provide a womb / blood-lineage for His pre-destined plan of Jesus Christ. Pastor Murray, just how can there be a 1st Earth age prior to creation?}

^{Genesis 10:5 The Isles of the Gentiles were divided. (KJV)}

The descendants of Japheth (KJV notes) later spread to maritime nations, each with its own language. Gentiles have existed ever since the flood. How did Gentiles survive the flood? Did Gentiles continue to exist through Japtheth's bloodline? If so, how? Who was the origin of the Caucasian race? Pastor Murray claims, that in the Hebrew manuscripts, Noah took 2 of each animal / flesh aboard the arc which included other Human races. The Adamic souls Noah, his wife, his 3 sons and their wives apparently the only ones that star in the Bible at this time.

Christian dogma would have only Noah's family to survive with no scientific explanation as to how the other races came to exist. Evolution, of course, would be out of the question.

Evolution?

Genesis 11:1 At this time, the whole world spoke the same language.

Genesis 11:6-7 God said: If the whole world speaks the same language, they will be able to do whatever they want to. Let us go down and confuse their language so they will not be able to do what they want to do. 　Isn’t it generally your enemy, your adversary, your competition who stops you from doing what you want to do? Don’t we prevent our food animals from doing what they want to do so we can better control an orderly killing and consuming of them? Who is shown here to really be mankind’s adversary?

War / competition: A desire, agenda and a mind-set to prevent others from doing to you exactly what you willfully intend and are trying to do to them.

Genesis 11:31 Terah (Abraham’s father) establishes that Sarah is (only) his daughter-in-law.

Genesis 20:12 Abraham states: She (Sarah) is in truth my sister, but, only my father’s daughter, not my mothers, and so, she became my wife.

Leviticus 20:17 If a man takes (sexually consummates marriage) with his sister, even a half-sister, who is the daughter of his father or mother, they will be cut off from their people. Since he committed incest... he shall bear his guilt. Torah                        

^{What? Abraham, the father of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic religions is guilty of "incest" which God forbid in ?}

^{How many conflicts, debates and arguments does this important contradiction expose?}

^{What about Abraham's character, his integrity, courage, his having incest with his half-sister? What traits does the father and origin of the Hebrew race, and the Jewish, Islam and Christianity religions show here? What a model!}

^{The Bible introduces the origin, description, documentation of deeds and the essence of the God Christians worship. Why is it that most Christians don't want to know many selected Bible C&Vs that describe their God? The Biblical God is their God - isn't It? They do believer all of the Bible's C&Vs - don't they?}

^{Genesis 12:1-3 God said to Abram: I will make you a great nation, make your name great. I will curse those who curse you. Catholic (Isn’t cursing somebody considered evil?)}

^{Cathy, a former Mennonite lady: Mommy, why did God create the Devil?}

^{Baby, God is the Devil. He’s just schizophrenic. Genesis 12:12-20 Abram (man of greatness) said to his wife, Sarai (princess): You are so beautiful we will tell The Pharaoh that you are my sister so they won’t kill me. Pharaoh took Sarai and paid Abram flocks and wealth. God struck Pharaoh’s people with disease and death because of Sarai. When he found out she was Abram’s wife, Pharaoh asked Abram why he did that to him? Then, he forgave them both and sent them along their way with all the wealth.}

^{Genesis 12:19 Pharaoh asked Abraham: Why did you say: She is my sister, so that I (Pharaoh) took her (Sarah) for my wife? Catholic}

^{Unlike the KJV and the Torah, this Catholic version states: I took her for my wife.In law, a marriage is not a marriage and a wife is not a wife unless consummated by sex.}

^{Sex Consummates A Marriage}

^{Oh, what to believe! What would a fundamentalist say? Did Pharaoh have sex with Sarah?}

^{Genesis 13:2 Now, Abram was rich in livestock, silver and gold.}

^{Was Abraham our first pimp? Do you think Abe and Sarah would ever try this again?}

^{Genesis 13:5-6 Lot, Abram’s nephew, and Abram grew so rich, they could not live together, their herds were so large.}

^{Genesis 16:1 Sarai nags Abram about being childless and gave Abram her hand maiden, Hagar, for sex and children. Hagar conceived a son.}

^{Abraham / Ishmael / Hagar}

God said: Yes you did. Catholic