Tracing the Mental and Moral Breakdown of the deity of "Genesis"
I don't mean any disrespect by saying the above.
I am just dealing with the facts as they present themselves in "Genesis."

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God Loves Creation: "And God saw that it was good."

   First, God loves the creatures he created. We see this in the eulogy to creation at the beginning of the first chapter of Genesis:

      And God said, "Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let
     birds fly above the earth across the firmament of the heavens."

     So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves,
     with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird
     according to its kind.  And God saw that it was good.

     And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in
     the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."

     ...And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their
     kinds: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their
     kinds." And it was so.

     And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the cattle
     according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the ground
     according to its kind. And God saw that it was good." Genesis 1: 20-25.

     We definitely know that God loves his creature, for the refrain "and God saw that it was good" is repeated.

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Then Comes the Vegetarian Covenant,
Proving Once Again God's love for Creatures.
God commands all creatures to eat vegetation (and not each other).

   A quite logical and moral vegetarian covenant comes soon after. God sees the creation of the creatures as good, and tells them to eat plants and not each other. It all makes sense so far. God is all love, and God doesn't want any of his creatures to be harmed.

  "And God said `Behold I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.'" l: 29-30.
 


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God's morals shift.
God's morals break down.

  Then in chapter 4 of Genesis we suddenly see God accepting the animal sacrifices of Abel and refusing the vegetation sacrifices of Cain, even though he, God, had seen his creation of all creatures to be good and had commanded all humans and all creatures to eat vegetation.

  And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said,
  I have gotten a man from the LORD. Ge 4: 1

  And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but
  Cain was a tiller of the ground. Ge 4: 2

  And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the
  ground an offering unto the LORD, Ge 4: 3

 while Abel brought several choice lambs from the best of his flock. The
 LORD accepted Abel and his offering, Ge 4: 4

But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. Ge 4: 5

   So, the astute mind understands that this God has a real problem being consistent.  This God is obviously not too stable.  For this God just got through saying that all creatures should eat vegetation in the first chapter of "Genesis," but now he accepts sacrificed animals and has no respect for the vegetarian Cain.
 


Bible Critics throughout the ages have seen this contradiction.
But the orthodoxies refuse to deal with its implications.

  You don't have to take literary criticism in college in order to understand that something is wrong. The tone of God's morality has changed.  Somebody is lying.  Either the Torah was rewritten, or the god of the Torah is seriously ill mentally.  Since God, as defined by virtually all cultures, is Perfection, we can see clearly that Genesis was rewritten.
 


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God's mental condition
takes a radical turn for the worse in chapter 9 of "Genesis."

   As if this wasn't bad enough. We've already seen that this God changes his mind, quite unlike the God defined by theologians of every faith, as All Perfect, All Knowing, Immutable, Unchanging. This deity changes. This god shifts his morality. Or shall we say: this (presentation of) god has a shifty morality.

   As if it couldn't get worse, as if the mentality and morality of God couldn't possibly break down any more, those who rewrote the Torah show us a really degenerate deity who very radically changes his mind.  We see this, of all places, in the account of Noah and the Ark.

   If you want to know what really happened in the account of Noah and the Ark, ask anybody except an orthodox theologian. Kids, and people who haven't read "Genesis" thoroughly all like Noah. Noah is the one that God chose to build and ark and save all the species of animals. How great! Everybody sane loves those who are kind!  Noah saves the lives of the species of animals. He's God's chosen savior of the animals. What a beautiful story of love. That's the way kids, innocent people in general, and those who don't bother knowing the Genesis account well understand the story. And for God's sake, (the real Deity's sake), that's what was meant.

   We tend, like human-centered people, instead of creation-centered people, to think that only Noah and family were chosen. Heck no! The two elephants, the two lions,  the two orangutans, the two scorpions, the two parrots, they too were also chosen by God.

   But after the water subsides and ark lands, one of the first things Noah does is slaughter some animals.  Whow!   So here, Noah, God's chosen instrument in saving the species of animals, decides he's hungry, and slaughters some animals.  A bit strange to many of us. But even worse, God now gives the Carnivorous Covenant, which is radically different from the Vegetarian Covenant.   As if this weren't bad enough, God really goes berserk; God pretty much has a complete mental and moral breakdown, and says now that all other animals should feel fear and dread or terror in the presence of humans. So much for the original God who saw all creatures as good and who desired creatures to eat vegetation instead of each other.

 "And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.  The fear of you and the dread of your shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the air, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered.  Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything." Genesis 9: 1-3
 


Being Masked as God is the Devil's Best Disguise.

  The image of God has fallen, like those who created this deity, from being compassionate to being cruel to other creatures. God has fallen from commanding goodness for all creatures to commanding a situation of fear and dread.  In other words, God has ceased being a God of Love and now is a God of terror, fear, and dread. In other words, what people are really worshipping here is a Demon causing fear and terror trying to pass itself off as God.

  Because now, as the so-called good book says, it's okay for humans to kill, trap, torture, enslave, displace other animals. The animals don't feel that any of these things are good, however.  Any damn thing you want to do to animals, you can do it. Let's put electrodes in their brains. Let's pour acid in their eyes.  That's exactly the way the orthodoxies of the world interpret God's covenant with Noah.

   That's right.  Whatever sick act you can think of, God, the same God, ostensibly, that created the world and the animals, and loved the animals only nine chapters earlier, now says do what you want to them; inspire fear and dread.  It's fine, because it's what God wants.  No, its what businessmen want you to think God wants, so businessmen can exploit other creatures, not just through killing other creatures, eating their corpses, drinking their milk, wearing their furs, but through all the excavations of industry into the earth, killing, wounding and displacing the creatures there.

   So what have we learned?  That the Torah was rewritten? Obviously. For only those with contradictory morals themselves could possibly believe in such an illogical, immoral, and uncompassionate God.

 

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