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With Texas and other states forcing religion in public schools, this now is political.
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Fun fact:
Genesis is the history of the Jews, not the history of human beings.
So when Cain and Seth (nobody remembers Seth!) were married, they married outside the faith.
Cain's wife came from Nod. Seth's wife isn't really mentioned.
Abel's wife is not mentioned, he may have been murdered first.
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I'm not sure when the Torah was compiled/written, but this fun fact may be related to the other fun fact that the religion that Judaism evolved from was monolatrist or henotheistic. That is, they only worshipped their one god, but unlike modern monotheists they didn't reject the idea that other gods existed. Much like how a Greek who believes in Zeus and Poseidon might not have any problem believing that Ra and Isis exist, they're just not "the gods I worship".
It's not clear precisely when the early Yahwism transitioned into being monotheistic like they are today. It was probably a fairly gradual process.
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The cult of Yahweh. Yahweh started as one of the the 70 cananite gods, specifically god of storms and war. The cult of Yahweh believed Yahweh was also El, the head god. The founding of the cult was attributed to Abraham. They built the first temple to him, which was destroyed when they were enslaved. Then in exile it transformed from Yahweh being El to Yahweh being the only god, the full transformation happening with Moses. They go to the promised land, the second temple is built, Rome conqueres the Levant, the messiah arrives and fulfills profecies, dies, jews rebel, the second temple is destroyed, and everyone scatters.
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You tend to see the switch in the second temple period. At that point, Judaism was heavily influenced by Persian Zoroastrianism, which is expressly monotheist. There may be some pollination in both directions, too.
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This is the weirdest way to find out where "Kane" and "Nod" come from in command and conquer.
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The game hints that Kane is literally the Cain of the Bible.
"Nod" really just means "wandering". Cain went to the land of wandering around doing shit.
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Yeah they refer to them as the sons of God marrying the daughters of man, defined as two different peoples. They also mention the Nephilim, or giants being around as well.
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TIL! Thanks for sharing
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But then how were Cain's wife's ancestors created (in Nod?), if not from Adam? Is there at least one other act of creation? I get if it's not mentioned, but surely someone has written fanfic to fill in the gaps.
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Again, Adam and Eve weren't the first people, they were the first Jews. It makes more sense if you catch the proper tense of the first line of Genesis:
In Hebrew:
א בְּרֵאשִׁית,
בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים,
אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם,
וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ.In Latin:
in principio creavit Deus caelum et terram.The English you know:
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.The English you don't know:
In the beginning the Gods created the heaven and the earth.Latin picks up the plural correctly. The King James version does not.
So you might ask, well, wait, if there are other Gods and other people, why aren't they mentioned?
Surprise! They ARE:
Exodus 20:2-3:
"2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
In other words, there ARE other Gods, but I am yours and you are mine and we are all together, goo goo gajoob!
Wait, that's not right. ;)
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Sparkly vampires
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And in practically all drawings do Adam and Eve have belly buttons - Think about that 🤣
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Okay, yeah but...
If god can make people surely he knows how to make belly buttons?
Not the part of the story that seems odd to me
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That's where their imaginary entity sticked a stick in the clay while sculpting... that's why fat guys like me needs a deep navel so that we don't fall from the stick and end up with a flat face or ass.
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those motherfuckers!
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Aahhh that time when ever got stuck in that washing tub and her son's found her....
Cue pornhub intro music and a title saying something something step something
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Ain't no step about it.
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To be fair, the book basically never mentions daughters unless they're plot relevant, so it could be that Adam's sons were sisterfuckers rather than motherfuckers.
Either way, Genesis is basically the Incest pornhub category.
Wait, there is an incest ph category? Is there a concentration camp fetish category? I could recommend that one to a shitload of people.
And after Cain, Abel, and Seth, Adam had multiple other children who are never named. We don't know who, how many, or genders.
Genesis 5:4-5
"4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:
5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died."
That's it. But I'd imagine you could get a lot of sons and daughters in 800 years...
800 moon years. So about 80 real ones. The text is from a time where a year was based on the moon cycle. Iirc.
Or. Or. The bible is merely allegorical in these descriptions. Naming individuals rather than larger peoples of the world.
Weren't they angelfuckers? Or did that come later?
Later... out of desperation... have you seen how accurate to the bible reditions of angels look like?
And you have to be quite desperate to fuck those things!