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[-] mateofeo85@lemmy.world 78 points 6 days ago
[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 56 points 6 days ago
[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Nah, that's stupid.

we are all butt babies

[-] NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org 8 points 6 days ago
[-] 0ops@piefed.zip 5 points 5 days ago

Babies are stored in the butt

[-] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 2 points 5 days ago

Is that why the vicar always called me a little shit?

[-] Rozauhtuno 26 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I can't believe god allowed mpreg only to patch it out later.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Maybe it hasn't been patched and we just aren't trying hard enough

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[-] plm00@lemmy.ml 41 points 6 days ago

There are many things to nitpick, but that isn't one of them. Old Testament mentions Adam had both sons and daughters.

[-] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 6 days ago

The Bible doesn't say God stopped at Adam and Eve.
The meme does.

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.

It's pretty explicit that he didn't make more than one man. Or maybe it was just a biblical harem anime?

[-] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 days ago

It wouldn't be explicit to the Jews, as the New Testament isn't a thing.

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The Bible doesn’t say God stopped at Adam and Eve.

Yes, but I wasn't talking about just the old testament, as that's not the claim you made.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

Either was there's some incest going on.

[-] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Mitochondrial Eve (evolution) proves incest, so there's that.

[-] TachyonTele@piefed.social 11 points 6 days ago

She was also the main villain in the PS1 rpg classic, Parasite Eve!

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[-] plm00@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 days ago
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[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 days ago

My old religion teacher said that hereditary diseases weren't a thing back then. I don't believe in the bible but that kinda checks out.

[-] angrystego@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

That's not better, is it?

[-] FardyCakes@lemmy.world 33 points 6 days ago

Uh, I’m pretty sure it was Adam and Steve.

Jeez nobody goes to church anymore.

[-] NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org 9 points 6 days ago

Maybe they should give out drugs...

[-] TachyonTele@piefed.social 10 points 6 days ago

For my body be of coke, and my blood made of that really strong wine.

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[-] onnekas@sopuli.xyz 15 points 5 days ago
[-] iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

And Cain was worried someone would attack him when he was exiled. Fucking who? Ain't there only 3 humans in existence???

[-] omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Genesis 5

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.*

3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:

4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters

[-] Albbi@lemmy.ca 22 points 6 days ago

Even before Seth there was Cain. Genesis 4

But the Lord said to him, “Not so; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.” Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. 16 So Cain went out from the Lord’s presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

So God made Adam and Eve who made Cain and Abel. But there are other people out there who Cain knows about and is scared of. There's also another land called Nod. Cain also found a wife and had kids.

"Everybody comes from Adam and Eve" doesn't work and is so stupid it really shouldn't be a thing anymore.

[-] bizarroland@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yeah, I mean if you think about it, if you really read it, the Bible is written to tell the Jewish people that they are the most specialist, special people on the planet. And everyone else can kinda just go fuck themselves.

Even Jesus didn't really much like performing a miracle for someone who was from Canaan

Mathew 15:22-28:

And behold— a Canaanite woman having come out from those districts was crying out, saying, “Have mercy on me, Master, Son of David. My daughter is badly demon-possessed”. 23 But the One did not respond a word to her. And having come to Him, His disciples were asking Him, saying, “Send her away, because she is crying-out after us”. 24 But the One, having responded, said, “I was not sent-forth except for[a] the lost[b] sheep of the house of Israel”. 25 But the one, having come, was prostrating-herself before Him, saying, “Master, help me”. 26 And the One, having responded, said, “It is not good to take the bread of the children and throw it to the little-dogs[c]”. 27 But the one said, “Yes, Master. For indeed the little-dogs eat from the crumbs falling from the table of their masters!” 28 Then, having responded, Jesus said to her, “O woman, your faith is great. Let it be done for you as you wish”. And her daughter was healed from that hour.

Which, like, one reading of it says, Jesus was so cool that all you had to do was have faith in him and good things would happen to you.

But on the other reading of it, Jesus is ignoring this woman as she begs for her daughter's life, and not until the woman debases herself in front of Jesus does he deign to sprinkle a miracle her way.

He literally called Canaanites dogs, and it's not like it was a huge miracle. The girl was possessed by a demon. Out of all of the people on the planet, the son of God would be the one person who could just like kind of blink in that demon's general direction and banish it. And he wouldn't spare a blink for this woman until she begged him and debased herself for him.

And I get it, to a certain degree, I obviously don't understand what it's like to be the Son of God in any way, shape, fashion, or form, but I'm sure the requirements of being Jesus, like your daily existence, must have been stressful at a level that I could only comprehend if I was actually on fire.

But this kind of makes me not really trust my local pastor, talking about how Jesus loves me when I'm farther removed from being a Jew as almost anybody on the planet, not including china.

If Jesus would barely be convinced under an incredibly public and annoying situation to send a tiny little sprinkle of blessing somebody's way because she just doesn't happen to be a Jew, then my Native American ass likely does not stand a chance in hell.

And that really sucks, because I believe in him and I've prayed to him and I've talked to him my entire life, just being realistic about it, I mean, cross-checking the number of prayers I've had versus the numbers of prayers I've had answered, and cross-checking how much I wish I was a better person, and how often I've prayed for guidance, or understanding, or wisdom, or forgiveness, or strength, or anything, to become a better person. better person and what a piece of shit I actually am in practice, and don't get me wrong, I'm not like a puppy kicker or anything. It's just there's nothing good about me at all.

And so when you cross compare everything in my life, you counterbalance that by the amount of good that exists in me, even though I'm not offensive, I'm not gonna go to the good place.

And there's a part of me that wonders if it's because I just wasn't born the right race, you know?

I mean, there's literally millions of non-practicing people who happen to have been born Jewish, who, if they could just confer their birth right on me, would change my life for the better in so many ways, because I would have been branched into God, and therefore God would have to hear my prayers or something. But I don't know any non-evil way to do that. I don't even know an evil way to do that. I don't know any way to do that at all.

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

The interpretation I heard was that she was essentially not only converting to worshipping Jesus' father, but also denouncing her old religion.

The Canaanites specifically were essentially enemies of God, and are all descendants of Caine*. So basically they are the exception to the rest of the world, and that's why she had to unusually defenestrate herself to receive the blessing.

Jesus does help non-Jews in other instances without such hesitation in the Bible.

*From what I remember at least

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[-] GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Omg. Command & Conquer was a Bible reference this whole time? (Kane was the leader of Brotherhood of Nod)

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Kane also shot his second in command, a guy named Seth, in the head in one mission intro.

C&C Renegade was probably the most explicit with the implication that he was the biblical Cain, but it was always a thread in the Tiberium games.

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

That first part of genesis is just two creation myths in a trench coat.

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[-] cjoll4@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

They had more than three sons. Cain, Abel, and Seth are mentioned by name, but they had other sons and daughters.

Adam's Descendants to Noah

GENESIS 5

This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. 2 Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created. 3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. 4 The days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years; and he had other sons and daughters. 5 Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died.

[-] Leather@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

God damn! I guess from the biblical perspective, It's a good thing for all of us the first three Republicans we're into Mom bod, because it seems like most of them are pedophiles.

[-] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 days ago

Genesis doesn't say all of us came from Adam and Eve. Just that they were the first. Genesis neither says, nor implies, that God stopped at Adam & Eve.

[-] mienshao@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

It is crystal clear that Adam and Eve were the first humans and all descended from them. The bible is obviously bullshit, but don’t make shit up either to make yourself sound smart.

Luke 3:38 Acts 17:26 1 Corinthians 15:20-22

[-] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I specified Genesis, as did the meme.
Where will the Jews discover your wisdom?

[-] frog@feddit.uk 6 points 6 days ago

Genesis seemed like it was two stories mashed up to one.

One had a mass of people already created, like you said but another story where Adam is first person.

My punishment is greater than I can bear! Today you have driven me away from the soil, and I shall be hidden from your face; I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and anyone who meets me may kill me.

People already existed or is it assumed Eve populated the world in some way?

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Where did Cain and Abel’s wives come from?

[-] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 days ago

The OG Earthen Vessel Egglayer (EVE)

[-] m3t00@piefed.world 7 points 6 days ago

never bought into the rib story

[-] VerilyFemme 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Technically we all came from the three sons of Noah and their wives, according to Genesis. You don't need to think about that one much, though. Probably a lot of cousin marriage.

EDIT: sons, idk why it said songs

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[-] Codpiece@feddit.uk 7 points 6 days ago

Was that off their first album?

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago

And that is just the beginning…

[-] NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org 11 points 6 days ago

Lot and his daughters...

biblically accurate male impregnation 💪

Motherfucker!

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