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[1:1]In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, OK, good start.
[1:2] the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Not sure how a formless void has wind and waters, but sure, whatever.
[1:3] Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. Kind of like that ‘Clapper’ thing they sell on TV, I guess.
[1:4] And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. Okay, lack of light is darkness. Not too hard.
[1:5] God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. Yep, day and night got it.
[1:6] And God said, "Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters. Um, Dome? What?
[1:7] So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so. And so the sky is a dome with water above it?
[1:8] God called the dome Sky. So God is doubling down on this, The sky is a dome with water above it, Sorry God, I ‘m starting to think you are full of crap. .
And there was evening and there was morning, the second day

[1:9] And God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. We got land and bodies of water. Strange way to put it, but okay.
[1:10] God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. Ok. I agree it seems good.
[1:11] Then God said, "Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it." And it was so.
[1:12] The earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed of every kind, and trees of every kind bearing fruit with the seed in it. And God saw that it was good. Okay, the last two paragraphs are kind of redundant. But it makes sense to bring forth plants before animals, so the animals have something to eat. Why no mention of bacteria in this chapter? Are they too small for God to see so he forgot he created them?
[1:13] And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
[1:14] And God said, "Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years, This seems to kind of goes against days and years are different for God time vs People time
[1:15] and let them be lights in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth." And it was so.
[1:16] God made the two great lights - the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night - and the stars. Question! This sounds like the Sun and Moon. But God already created day and night back in paragraph 1:5. Where was the light from that God created back in 1:3, without the “great light in the sky”? How did he create day and night without the sun? That pretty much defines day and night. You’re not making any sense, God.
[1:17] God set them in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth, Again with the sky dome. Which, as I recall, had water above it. So are the moon and the sun floating around in the water above the dome? Sorry God, I’m calling bullshit on this.
[1:18] to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
[1:19] And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
[1:20] And God said, "Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky." A rather poetic way to put it. Doesn’t tell me anything useful though.
[1:21] So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, of every kind, with which the waters swarm, and every winged bird of every kind. And God saw that it was good. Sea monsters?
[1:22] God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." Be fruitful and multiply all you sea monsters.
[1:23] And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
[1:24] And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind." And it was so.
[1:25] God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the cattle of every kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind. And God saw that it was good. Once again poetic, even if the two paragraphs are redundant, but with less understanding than I got in 9th grade biology.
[1:26] Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth." Who is “our” in our likeness. I thought there was one God. Is this one of those new pronoun things your followers are all hating on now.
[1:27] So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. So if mankind is in Gods image, is God both male and female, is God gender fluid? Is there a male in a female God. This is all kind of confusing.
[1:28] God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."
[1:29] God said, "See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food.
[1:30] And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was so.
[1:31] God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Yeah, I can see why we are going to need to rest on the 7th day. This is all such a confusing mess; it can really be really tiresome. I'm going to put this to rest before I get to the talking serpent and donkey