Genesis for Skeptics

Genesis has it all: sex, violence, contradictions, insults to women, absurdities, conflicts with science and history, you name it. Well, except for anything good, that is. God declared his creation to be "very good" in 1:31, but I can't find anything good in Genesis.

Be sure to check out:

• The two contradictory creation stories  1:1-2:3, 2:4-25

• God's clever, talking serpent  3:1

• God's curse of all women  3:16

• The "sons of God" copulated with the "daughters of men," and had sons who became "the mighty men of old, men of renown." 6:2-4

• "There were giants in the earth in those days." 6:4

• God, the mass murderer  7:4, 19:24

• Noah, the just and righteous  7:1

• Noah, the drunk and naked  9:20-21

• The curse of Canaan  9:22-25

• Lot [the just and righteous (2 Pet.2:7-8)] offers his daughters to a crowd of angel rapers  19:8

• A drunken Lot impregnates his daughters  19:30-36

• Abraham abandons his first son  21:10, 12

• God tells Abraham to kill his second son for a burnt offering  22:2, 10

• Jacob goes in unto Leah by mistake  29:23, 25

• Rachel buys sex with mandrakes  30:15-16

• Jacob sees God face to face and lives  32:30

• Reuben has sex with his father's [Jacob's] concubine  35:22

• Onan spills his seed; God kills Onan  38:9, 10

• Judah impregnates his daughter in law  38:16, 18