Sunday, April 4, 2010

Why such bias?

This morning I woke up to the History channel. Stories about the Garden of Eden, the crucifixion of Jesus, and the possible existence of Lilith as Adam's first wife. Since this was the first I've heard of a Lilith, I became fascinated with her story. I don't have a Bible, so I went to the internet to see how other people have interpreted the story. No two accounts of her story are the same, but from what I can gather:

There are two mentions of creations in the book of Genesis. Some people argue that these are two separate creations. In the first, Lilith was created from dirt at the same time Adam was created. They argued over who would be on top during sex, and Lilith refused to obey Adam and so fled from the Garden of Eden to the Red Sea. Adam complained to God, and so He sent three angels to retrieve Lilith. Lilith refused to return, and (here is where there are no consistencies) either 100 of her children are cursed with death, or she will bear 100 demon children a day. I suppose here is where she becomes a demon who harms newborn children, women in childbirth, and men, and any child wearing an amulet with the names of the three angels are free from harm.

Now, in the second creation, God gives Adam Eve, and Lilith is suggested to be the serpent who lures Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, not Satan.

I realize that Lilith could just be a complete misinterpretation of the Bible, and was literally meant only to be a screech owl. Hilarious. However, I stumbled upon one website that seemed to be so biased in its opinion that I had to write this blog. It's www.gotquestions.org. It only takes one article to tell, but I read three just to be sure. Instead of attempting to completely disprove some of the myths surrounding stories of the Bible, the author(s) force their own opinion mainly using one or a few vague details, and sometimes not even quoting the sections of the Bible they are referencing. Some statements they make are just completely out of this world, such as in their article attempting to explain the non-existence of the Gap Theory: "There are too many problems with this theory to describe adequately in a brief response, not the least of which is that if something important had occurred between the two verses, God would have told us so. God would not have left us to speculate in ignorance about such important events." 


Excuse me but, I don't think God was the one who sat down and wrote the Bible Himself in the first place, and as far as leaving us to "speculate in ignorance", there are a lot of things in the Bible that are left to interpretation. How are the authors so stupid to believe that what God thinks we should know and what they think God wants us to know are the same? If you are going to prove/disprove a point, don't include your personal bias in the argument.


This is why I stopped going to church >:[

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