I’ve spent too long having opinions on Christianity without actually reading the bible, so I thought I would have a go. First criticism…not enough pictures. I want to know what it looked like at the end of the first day when there was light and nothing else. I tried re-creating it in my bedroom by staring into my bedside light, but I hurt my eyes.
It’s not very realistic either. When he built the Ark, Noah was six hundred years old, his father, Methuselah, lived to 969 years, Adam (the original sinner) lived for 930 years.
It is said that the human lifespan in the bible was shortened four times, from eternal life before original sin, to around 120 years.
Today, we can create great floods, we make doors that open seemingly by themselves, but the oldest living person who we definitely know of is Jeanne Calment of France who died at the age of 122 years and 164 days in 1997. We’ve got a long way to go.
Aside from these minor details, it is a good read so far. I like two phrases in particular: ‘and God saw that it was good’, like when he made the heavens. I’ve started using it to narrate my life in third person ‘Luke made a cup of tea, and he saw that it was good’, it has enabled me to confer a degree of divinity upon myself.
The other phrase I love in the Bible is when people have sex… it is referred to as ‘knowing’, presumably that idea of ‘carnal knowledge’. ‘Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch’.
I once heard a priest say that God knew all of us…I’d have thought I would have remembered that.
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