The Bible Series: Examining The Truth. Part 1

Part 1 - "The Greatest Story Ever Told"

Follow along with me while I begin a new project. I will look at various stories from within the bible and we will discuss the facts behind the stories. I know for a fact that many times over this same thing has been done and in some cases this might even be the same as beating a dead horse. Still, I want to go through this exercise because among other things this will allow me some insight into some of the themes in common literature as well as our own historical sense of who we are and where we come from. After-all, most of the world believes what is written in these pages. I want to see how people can be fooled so easily. Join me.

The Question: Why would anyone who is capable of rational thought choose to believe in a God who is all-knowing and in utter control of the entire Universe?


I have always had a difficult time coming to grips with the fact that there is a being out there who had, in his infinite wisdom, chose to create the Earth and all of its inhabitants. Then in a stroke of genius decides to for lack of a better word, play with his creations as he did. Take Adam and Eve as just one example. He supposedly created these two and then gives them commands or "suggestions" to do whatever they want except to eat the fruit of one tree. He then tells them the name of that tree: The Tree of Knowledge.

So he is intentionally baiting them to disobey him. Why would he give them the freedom to choose what to do and then give them an order to not touch one thing in this wonderful garden? It is almost as if he is testing them. So, if he created them in his own image why would he need to test them? Did he doubt his creation? If he was all-knowing and wise why would he doubt what he had made? This makes no sense to me.

Ultimately they failed the test, if it was a test. Afterwards he (God) gets mad and then and only then are they ashamed and forced to wear clothes because now they know that they are naked. Before the fruit debacle they were walking around naked because they had either no clue or did not care that they had their junk hanging out. There are all kinds of parrallels drawn from this story to our current (and past) selves. There are way to many to debate here. So let's pick up on another story. Shall we?

We will be going backwards a little bit, back to the very beginning, back to creation. In the beginning there was nothing. The Earth was a dark and desolate place. Well.. sure it was, until it rotated some more and then it became daytime. The bible states that God had created the light. "Let there be light", and there was light and God was pleased with what he saw. So essentially if we are to believe this we must ask ourselves, "what existed before God created the light - the Sun?" Well apparently there was nothing. So let's examine this for a second.

If there was nothing but darkness until he created the light, that would mean that there was no Sun until that point. Science tells us that when our solar system was created, it was created around the Sun. It was our Sun that generated the gravity necessary for the rocks and asteroids to coalesce into larger and larger pieces until finally a planet was formed. Well, multiple planets actually but we are only concerned with one at this point. So we have the Sun and then we have its gravity and eventually we have planets. So with this being a fact of science, I ask you how can God (or anyone for that matter) have observed an already established Earth (with oceans according to the bible) and decided to create light and thereby the Sun? Seems impossible if you ask me.

This is part 1 of the new and ongoing series in which I examine and dissect the so-called "greatest story ever told". Well, it is a story actually. I intend to prove that it is indeed just that, a story. Check back with me won't you?