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I Think, Therefore, I Am, A GOD 3

I Think, Therefore, I Am,

A GOD

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After all, if a male and female dog have
puppies, their offspring are in their likeness and
their image, making their puppies dogs…not
cats, monkeys, turtles, frogs or any other animal
or creature...but dogs.
But wait a minute! In Genesis 1:26, it
says, “Let US make man in OUR image, after
OUR likeness.” Is God singular, a single deity,
a single creator, or is there more than one God?
I will always remember the Saturday morning I
went to Bible Class in the hall of St. Stephen’s
Church in Chambly, Quebec, where I was raised
as a youth, and questioned US, OUR – the
plurality of God, and other contradictions I
found within the Book of Genesis.
I also asked if God created Adam and
Eve, and they had two sons, Cain and Able, and
if my math is correct, does that mean there are
only 4 persons on the face of the earth having
been created by God?
Following me so far?
Egyptians! throws temper tantrums, destroys his creations –
If this is true, and there is only one God,
3. The Egyptians who were chasing the very creations that he gave life to, and breaks
then why in Genesis 4: 16-17:
Moses and the Israelites across the Red Sea that his own commandments?
16 And Cain went out from the presence
had been opened. After the Israelites reached the In plain English, GOD HAS KILLED,
of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the
other side, God closed the opening of the Red AND DOCUMENTED IN THE PAGES OF
east of Eden.
Sea, drowning the Egyptians. THE HOLY BIBLE, KILLED HIS OWN
17 And Cain knew his wife; and she
4. The alleged global destruction of all CHILDREN and yet, millions of people around
conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a
humans and other creatures created by God the world, continue to glorify him...love
city, and called the name of the city, after the when he flooded the entire world. He allowed him...pray to him.
name of his son, Enoch.
animals “two by two” and his chosen human Could this be the very first documented
Um… who created Cain’s wife that
survivors, Noah and his family, to live and case of “Stockholm Syndrome?”
“Cain “knew his wife?”
hypothetically repopulate the planet. The re- Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological
Where did she come from?
population math simply does not work – neither response wherein a captive begins to identify
Who were her parents?
do the genetics. closely with his or her captors, as well as with
Who created them?
5. God allowed his own son, Jesus, to be their agenda and demands.
At this time, I could not have been more
murdered by crucifixion on the cross. Psychologists who have studied the
than a 14-year-old who might have had more
So, let’s take a look at what is going on syndrome believe that the bond is initially
questions than others of the same age. here. created when a captor threatens a captive’s life,
I was told by Reverend Randall, a mean
You have a creator, God, who kills his deliberates, and then chooses not to kill the
Pulpit Bible Thumper, to leave the class
own creations, from mass murder to the captive. The captive’s relief at the removal of the
immediately and not to return. The walk home
genocide of all living creatures on the face of the death threat is transposed into feelings of
was just over an hour. Before I was able to get
planet, except those allowed to live on the ark gratitude toward the captor for giving him or her
home, my mother had received a call from Rev.
during the great flood. life. It takes only a few days for this bond to
Randall, explaining what I had done –
By the way, the math again does not cement, proving that, early on, the victim’s
challenged the words in the Bible – and that I
work when you take all the animal species, desire to survive trumps the urge to hate the
was not welcomed back to the church.
birds, reptiles, and insects two by two and put person who created the situation.
During the call there was also a them into the ark, allegedly built by Noah. God Sound familiar?
reference to me being the son of Satan.
gave Noah the dimensions of the ark: 300 cubits Let’s face it. The Bible was written
As I continued my reading and re-
in length, 50 cubits in width and 30 cubits in several thousand years ago by individuals
reading of the Bible, it became evident that God
height (450 × 75 × 45 ft. or 137 × 22.9 × 13.7 lacking any grasp of the world we live in – the
(aka the creators?) was a very mean deity who
m). sciences, geography, and physics. People who
was extremely vengeful and broke his own rules
All creatures on the planet two by two? needed fabricate some way to explain the
and commandments.
Why the lies? mysteries of the world, and hence – the birth of
I wondered about the number of people
Why the deceit? religion.
who must have died at his hands.
Why the misdirection? I have often wondered what would
Among the many accounts I found of the death God continuously breaks his own happen if the Bible were written today.
of the children – the creations of God – except
commandment, number 6, “Thou shall not kill.” How different would the Bible be?
for those he considered to be “chosen,”
In The Ten Commandments, why would God How would the great events written
including:
include, “Thou shall have no other Gods before about in the original Bible be described?
1. Every man, woman and child in the
me,” if, in fact, he is, according to the Bible, the Would creation really take 6 days?
cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, who were
only God? Would there be a God?
destroyed except for Lot and his family.
Biblical scholars tell us that God is Would there be Angels?
2. The men, women and children killed
perfect in every way. Would there be a man named Moses
during the many plagues God sent into Egypt
Are they reading a different Bible from a performing all those Biblical miracles and
when the Pharaoh would not “let his children different planet? would he be handed the Ten Commandments?
go” as demanded by Moses. God even sent the
So why do people love a God – at least the God
Angel of Death to kill all the first born of the
of The Old Testament, who is mean, vengeful, (Continued on Page 4)