It's God's Fault Again

I was a little surprised when I read this, because I knew most of what they were talking about. In the third chapter, I was surprised at why it was the woman who first tried the fruits of the tree of knowledge, but then I understood that it was a justification for some of the bad things that happen to women and not to men. "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. (gen. 3)"

The fourth and fifth chapters were, until now, the most boring. They described how evolution or development took place, and how each and every son had more and more sons, how many years they had and when they died. Anyways, something that really surprised me was that I never knew or thought that Adam and Eve had had two sons; I always assumed God had just created more people or something like that.

Chapter six was really a surprise for me. Believers have always said to me that God is perfect, and that he can't do anything wrong. But for me, the fact that "GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually (Gen. 6)," is NOT an example of perfection. If he was perfect, why didn't he create men who were not evil? That is still a question I don't yet have the answer to.

God was not happy with what he himself had done some time ago, and was starting to feel bad about it. "And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. (Gen. 6)"

In the seventh chapter, we are finally introduced to Noah and the story about the ark. Starting by the fact that the story is a little difficult to believe from the beginning, if I wanted people to believe something I wrote I wouldn't include lines like "And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. (Gen. 7)"

I never knew that the ultimate reason God had for creating the giant flood was that God wanted to end all humans and animals except the ones who were saved in the ark, but I think it is nice to know that even God sometimes has to "stop and erase".