In the Beginning

Legitimate bible scholars view chapters one and two of Genesis as two separate versions of The Creation, with chapter one being the six day version and two being a one day version. Being an illegitimate bible scholar, I view chapter 2 as a detailed account of the sixth day. Scholars also claim that each chapter has a different author, wi6th the chapter 1 author using the Hebrew word for God to describe the creative deity, and the chapter two author using the name Yehweh (Jehovah to you KJV fundies.)

The creation story is stupid and boring, and I'd rather ignore it, but it does introduce the main characters and set the scene for the most important event in the Judaeo-Christian belief system -- Original Sin. From here on, biblical passages will be in regular type, and my commentary will be in italics.

GENESIS
chapter 1

1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

We should notice here that the first three days and nights of the creation had no sun.

6. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
12. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
13. And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

Let them be for Signs? As in zodiacal signs?

15. And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

He made the stars also? It takes six days to create the earth; the sun and moon moon are created in one day. And the rest of the entire universe is thrown in as sort of an afterthought?

17. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18. And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20. And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
21. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
22. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Let us make man in our image? The fundies will tell you that Jehovah is using the royal we, He is not suggesting that there are multiple deities. There is a little problem with this explanation. Jehovah never uses the royal we when addressing lowly humans. He always refers to himself in the first person singular. Possibly, when he talks to himself, he is speaking to his multiple personalities -- and I'm not referring to the so-called Holy Trinity.

27. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

I want y'all to remember verse 31. It is very important that we keep in mind that Everything he made was very good. We need to keep in mind that he made Everything. This will come up again when we get into Original Sin.

Whoever divided the text up into chapters and verses was not paying attention. You notice that the first thtree verses of Chapter 2 obviously belong in Chapter 1.