When you will stand before the judgement seat of G'd, you will not find that mockery so funny anymore, but hate what you have done. Repent, before it is too late.
I've noticed that "Yahweh" has evolved throughout Genesis from a walking, talking person who directly interacts and converses with his creation, to merely the force of nature blamed in absentia for people's untimely deaths. That fills me with even more questions about the book's authorship, chronology, and originally intended function.
The Bible (i.e. the Jewish Bible) was compiled from many different sources. In some parts God is clearly only one god of many (e.g. Genesis 1), in other parts there is only one Jewish god, but lots of heathen gods who are just as real, but "evil" (e.g. the gods of Egypt, Baal, etc.). Eventually, it becomes a single "real" god, and none of the others ever "existed". Historically, Jews went from polytheistic (worship many gods), to henotheistic (many gods exist, worship only one), to monotheistic (only one god exists).
Canaanites and Hittites during this period have shrine prostitutes, women dedicated to fertility goddesses who practice sacred prostitution. However, in Deuteronomy, Israelites (both men and women) are forbidden from becoming these shrine prostitutes (Deut 23 17:18). That means Judah is not just a hypocrite, but also a racist hypocrite. He seems more than happy to pay for a prostitute provided that she's from a different culture and a different lineage. But he's quick to condemn them if they came from his own tribe. That's not just hypocrisy, that's the Bible recording the extent of sex-tourism during its time.
@Ron Maimon Depending on the translation, yeah. I don't read Hebrew. If the text just says "zona", then it's this guy being a hypocrite about getting a hooker. If it said "kedeshah", then it's sex tourism. Either way Judah's not the good guy here, I'd say.
@Ron Maimon Oh, so it -was- just "Zona". Now, I'm curious, do you know if levirate marriage is just one wife being passed down a line of brothers? If the family ran out of brothers would the father have to go in to produce more offspring? (The more I think of it, the more levirate marriage sound like the monster in "It Follows". It just gets passed down from one person to another to another...)
Judah, who'd become also known as Israel, is the one whom the Jews are and their nation are named after. His sleeping with a pagan cult-prostitute is foreshadowing of national Israel's idolatry. Idolatry is linked over and over in the Bible with prostitution. So Judah is NOT the good guy in this story of course. Those rank idalotries this story foreshadows are what got Israel (the Northern kingdom) and Judah (the southern kingdom) thrown into exile in Babylon and Assyria.
Man, I can't believe that when I was a teenager volunteering in my church, I used to encourage children to read the Bible! This book is not suitable for kids!! (I've since become more educated and am no longer a Christian.)
Men blaming sex workers for their actions, even if those same men have been active with the sex workers that they blame, is certainly something which modern right wing ministers must have learned from this book of the bible. The hypocrisy from this bible story obviously didn't teach preachers of today any lessons in behavior. How many christian leaders have been found committing acts that they've condemned in their sermons? Thanks for this series of biblical exposition.
God: Read my book and believe in me. Me: (start reading) Hey, god, I have questions. God: Stop questioning. Stop reading. Consult my human henchmen to get indoctrinated clarification. Just have faith. Me: I thought reading your book directly without flawed human being’s intervention is the least deceptive method to believe in you. God: If you keep reading, you’ll be an atheist.
Raag Amat I wouldn’t waste your time with Daniel. He never gives you anything to grab ahold of. It’s like arguing with a child who thinks they know everything, but can’t answer direct questions.
Atleast God should have killed Er before his marriage. But somehow god only kills Er after his marriage, hence letting the destruction of Tamar's life also. Not a thoughtful God at all.
Yeah , and at that time how come the daughter in-law new before hand that the father in-law was coming? 5g network? And without Judah's descendents there is no house of David and therefore no....you guessed it. Such shaky foundations?
DAYUM, Tamar! You have to respect her for her guts and foresight. Also, the reaction of everyone else in the room was probably "You did WHAT with your daughter in law???"
I love how you said “ you won’t learn this in Sunday school” yeah… we did. They do not care when it comes to the Bible. But when we watched the Joseph movie they fast forwarded thru the scene with potifers wife. 😒 we already knew what was going on lol
When I was a kid I used to get bored in Church so I read the Old Testament. What an education it was! Fascinating.! Also, there was no way they could legitimately tell me off for reading the Bible.
I actually remember a Sunday School lesson on Onan. I'm not sure how old I was, except I was in elementary school. I was old enough then to know the mechanics of sex (we had livestock animals which we bred). Years later, I thought I had imagined the whole story, until I reread the Bible in college. I wish I could go back and remember what the Sunday school lesson actually was. I remember picturing pulling the animals we raised apart during the activity.
This is now my favourite chapter. I feel like someone should pay you to stand in front of a mega-church and read this, with your commentary. They couldn't complain, after all, you are just reading the HOLY BIBLE.
@Ron Maimon I get your point, but dude, those are two completely different epics. Hanuman appears in The Ramayana and The Bhagavad Gita is a small portion of The Mahabharata. Hanuman only makes a very tiny cameo in the latter.
@Ron Maimon God isn’t flawed or he isn't human? As I remember Yahweh poofed the first two humans into existence dumb as stumps, plopped the Tree of Knowledge right in front of them and told them not to eat from it and if they do, they will die right on the spot. Well, they eat from it anyway and this really pisses Yahweh off because it was so unexpected. Oh, and they go on living for another 900 years before they die. So its 2000 years later and Yahweh thinks “Well this didn’t turn out at all like I expected”, so he floods out all life on the planet except for one really old dude, his family, and two, (or fives) of a few animals because Noah is the only upstanding guy on the planet. Well after a year of his boat filled to the rafters in elephant poo, the waters recede, Noah gets totally shit-faced and passes out. One of his sons sees his naked ass, so Noah curses the son. Yeah, Yahweh’s second try at this is going really well. Noah’s incestuous family have been breeding like rabbits for 170 years and start making a tall building which totally freaks Yahweh out, so he makes them all speak different languages so they won’t ever be able to work together again and scatters them all over the planet. Then there is Abraham. Yahweh tells him he wants a human sacrifice and to kill his son, to which Abraham says “No problem, what ever you say God”. At the last moment Yahweh, goes “Psych! Just wanted to see if you were sick and twisted enough to worship me. You can kill a goat instead”. Yahweh’s pretty much an abusive prick. Apparently in Yahweh’s second attempt at populating the planet whenever a male visits a town, it was common practice for all of the local males to come and try to rape him. Once again there is only one virtuous guy, Abrahams nephew Lot, in town, if by virtuous you mean he offers his virgin daughters to the rape crowd to try to distract them from raping his angel guest, who tells him to leave town because Yahweh is going to nuke it. They leave town, Lot’s wife turns back to look, because how often do you get to see a town nuked. So Yahweh turns her into a pillar of salt, because why the fuck not? Well it is 1800 years since the flood, and this second try is really not going well so Yahweh tries something new. He is still really pissed that Adam and Eve decided they didn’t want to remain stupid, so he comes up with a new plan so that he can forgive them. He will take a young virgin and without her permission he is going to get her pregnant. We have a word for that, but it slips my mind at the moment. Apparently the plan is that when the kid grows up, he will become a human sacrifice and that will make Yahweh feel better about the whole apple/knowledge thing. Except it really wasn’t much of a sacrifice because Yahweh’s rape child Jesus was up walking around a day and a half later, so more like an uncomfortable couple hours on the cross followed by a really bad hangover. Oh yeah, if you don’t worship Jesus because of his inconvenience, you will be tortured for all eternity after you die. Yeah, totally believable story about characters I should love and worship. So maybe Yahweh isn't flawed, but he does have a few personality quirks. unpleasantgod.ffrf.org/#/categories
God is imaginary, invented by primitive humans thousands of years ago just like every other deity used to comfort, control and scare the illiterate masses of people living in the desert half a world away thousands of years ago.
the crazy part is jesus has blood of prostitute woman who have sex with her father in-law and Christian worship this guy and they think he was pure guy to make his blood get away human sin LoL
@@vivacristorey4728 oh than I'm sorry. Becuase you have a lot of evidence to bring foward. At the very least proving the jesus was magical in anyway. Without pointing to your bible.
@@vivacristorey4728 lol, are you hiding god and not wanting your Nobel prize? You provide actual evidence for a god and you can get one. Dosent your book say to spread the word of your god? Are you going to go against your own holy book? But let me go ahead and guess. Your going to give me bad reasoning or a very biased form of "evidence." But please, surprise me.
@@vivacristorey4728 lol. That's because you have nothing. If you had something you would have brought it foward as commanded by your holy book. Sad, you might have turned a non believer into believer. But that is assuming you had actual evidence that would convince a reasonable person and won a Nobel prize.
What gets me is that God had this one chance to record God's immortal word which would still be revered millennia in the future; the perfect guide for human morality. Failing that, God could have at least said something useful, like "thou shalt not keep slaves". Instead, this little story is what we get recorded in the Bible.
Breech birth, right? Yeah, not good. But what REALLY has me concerned is the fact that there appear to be two babies in the birth canal at the same time. I don't care how many you've got in there, that's not going to work. They'd both suffocate.
In these days they didn't have the Napoleontic inheritence laws, it was the winner takes it all. I can imagine babies knew this and twins would wrestle each other in the whomb. The one with his arm out was probably kicked in the nuts, tackled and pulled back in by the other one...
So, one son with a name that makes him sound like the parents weren’t sure what to call him and another with a name that his mates will rip the piss constantly
Wonder why they never did a VeggieTales of this one.🤔 Also, now I think I will always be imagining a VeggieTales version of all of these and all of Godless engineer's daily Bible podcast.
These veils in the in the Bronze Age fairy tales of the Wholly Fable, as soon as somebody put them on they have the greatest disguise since Superman puts on glasses and becomes Clark Kent.
Maybe they were having social distancing sex, facing away from one another. keeping their face coverings on throughout. ( or maybe it was a three paper bag occasion!) .... See the Bible has scientific truths throughout.
@Ron Maimon Much of the bible seems to approve of such punishments, what a wonderful book! So suitable for our children. It should though be compulsory reading by all students over 12 . A sort of inoculation against religious belief.
Great work. If you are referring to other biblical texts that omit words, could you please mention the translations you are referring to? that would be helpful.
4:26 This verse is almost universally misinterpreted by catholics to claim that masturbation is a sin even though it is obviously referring to coitus interruptus. The bible doesn't actually mention masturbation except possibly in habbakkuk 2:16
@Ron Maimon Most sources say it means strength or power though some say it means "mourner" the masturbation connection doesn't appear outside of catholic legend.
@Ron Maimon If what you're saying was true you'd be able to provide a reference. You're expecting me to take your word for the " -fact- " that you're right and thousands of academic sources are wrong. Sorry, I wasn't born yesterday! Your suggestion that a language spoken over 3000 years ago has changed less than English has in 500 years is absurd! The association of Onan with masturbation is much more recent, it shouldn't be surprising that that association has led to new meaning of ancient words in Hebrew just as it has in English,
“Onan knew that the child would not be his” - it means that the kid would receive the inheritance that Er would have received and it would not go to Onan.
Robert Kirby Does that mean you accept the Bible as nothing but a man made creation? Or do you believe it’s God’s “inspired” word? I’m confused as to where you stand.... Because if there was an maximal powerful being which we call God, he could made his “perfect” word more clearer and without all the contradictions. It’s partially why I’m an atheist. The Bible fails at so many levels and doesn’t make sense other than it was written by ignorant people, in an ignorant period of time. PS, there’s a Robert Kirby who is a Mormon humor columnist in Utah? Just have to ask if you’re someone different? I’ve met the guy and he’s funny as hell. (I use to be Mormon fyi)
Robert Kirby But is God a man made creation? You’re being awfully shady with your wording and I smell a dishonesty in your answer. Like you don’t have the courage to just come out and say it... So please correct me if I’m wrong.
I just discovered this channel. I like it, except for one thing...the background music is hard to filter from the dialogue. Please reduce the volume of the background music.
The whole book is screwy, I just had to listen to this again. I was a JW, and vaguely remember this part. I think they tried to justify his visiting a prostitute, but was really her father-in-law by her being more righteous than him. This is like the Lot & daughters scenario, totally screwed up.
Thx God for Hemant!!!!... kidding. I had a blast with your video. You really cheer me up in my pandemic seclusion!! I wish we had in Spanish an equivalent to your videos. Oh well, I guess God (here I go again) has forgotten native Spanish speakers exist. Hi, from Mexico.
Thank you for all your work. I appreciate if you can advice how to mask the loud background music, so I can hear what you saying without being annoyed 😑 BTW, I have hearing problem and I think the background music so loud ‼️😁 Anyhow, I appreciate your work so much
So Genesis is heavy with genealogies, one after another. It's all about the genealogy. And all this genealogy is for the sole purpose of leading to the messiah. If you compare the lists in Matthew and Luke, the first fourteen names agree. Let me suggest everyone chart this chapter on paper like a family tree. Show it to the next annoying proselytizer.
@@avimohan6594 Typically it is easier to convince people of your importance if you come from an important family. From Adam to Noah to Moses to King David ... that's one impressive pedigree. Bloodlines had to be protected in cultures without paternity testing, so it is easy to understand how this could become a cultural imperative. The important man fathered the important children. If the children weren't his, the line was broken.
Maybe someone should do a sequel to "Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat"? I think it would get even higher attendance figures than the original!!!
Mark What "Judah and his Amazing Canaanite Concubine" type of thing? With Onan's hit number : "I've got the Dead Brother's Widow Blues", Tamar's soul ballad "Third time pays for all" and Judah's upbeat "Burn the Bitch!" Should do well.
Daniel its easy for you to believe that. 600 year old man built a giant boat and grabbed two of every animal on earth to set afloat for over a year? Ok....
I didn’t even watch the intro, I’m paused on the ad before the video, the message is about hypocrisy and the commitment Judah failed and the shame it brought him and Tamar and both of their sexual impurities before God. It’s never too late to turn to God and he will give you actual truth, not speculation from a demon who claims to be friendly, I’d rather offend those into Heaven than to kindly sooth those into Hell and once you get there you can speculate on how Gods word didn’t make sense to you for the rest of eternity. You claim there stories are awful and too gross for children yet you don’t see the world we live in. Listen to Gods word and he will give you actual truth not what you decide whatever it means to you. What you intend for bad was actually intended for good whether the demons closing your eyes see it or not. I hope you gain no following dragging those with you to hell.
"God smote er and onan for being wicked." Tamar was likely behind this, "these men wont please me, so i smote them myself and blame god for it." That'll make more sense. But all in all, the bible is so bad.
I can't keep up with these Kardashians and their sex lives. I'm going to have to listen to this chapter again and not get distracted by all the sex swapping.
I’m guessing this story was occurring while Joseph was in Egypt. And only 20 some years have passed when they met again. I am assuming that all of Judah’s kids where born one after another and boys officially enter manhood at 12 or 13. So that means two of his sons died as teens. Who knows how old Tamar was but she couldn’t have been that old.
Only 1:54 mins in and I can sense your deception already. When was it ever "forbidden" to marry a Cananite woman? I'm sure you missed the fact that Esau married 2 Cananites. "Undesirable" and "forbidden" are 2 completely different words.
"[someone] was wicked so the lord put them to death." And nowhere does it say why. That's not just stupid, it's evil. People are guessing and interpreting and assuming it's because of previous context AND THEY DO THE SAME FUCKING THING WHEN THEY GET SICK OR LOSE A LOVED ONE BECAUSE OF THAT FUCKING BOOK! I breathed in and out, I'm good. Let's continue. People are guessing and interpreting and assuming context in all parts of their lives and their scriptures to try and appease their god and they still get sick and lose loved ones, so not only is their god unclear, no matter what you do, it's never good enough and it's all on you to figure it out and take the blame for it. Well? Have you figured it out? Or do I need to spell it out for ya? Y O U R G O D I S A N E V I L N A R C I S S I S T For crying out loud. Stop being a victim who turns their backs on humanity to appease a fucking narcissist. When shit hits the fan PEOPLE help others to get back up. When you feel down, PEOPLE are there to comfort you. When you need a friend PEOPLE WILL ACTUALLY TALK with you. God just stays silent and gives you a new disease as punishment for who knows what and you will again try to figure out why and probably blame the godlessness of all those people who helped others instead of blaming your god, who doesn't even exist by the way. It's just probability and causality and a figment of your imagination running wild with it because you rather have a wrong answer that is comforting to you, despite the damage it does to others and to society for generations to come, than having no answer. So, if you're religious, fuck you!
Er and Onan could not be permitted to enter the bloodline because their mother was a Canaanite. This is especially strange since the Canaanites gradually _became_ the Israelites.
@@Daniel-cz7kd You win the award of Missing The Point Completely, and the award of Most Logical Fallacies in one sentence! You must feel so accomplished! Whether or not A god exists is not the point and if you read my comment you should realize that it shouldn't fucking matter if one does because no one has any way of showing that there is one or that we could possibly know what it wants or if we should even give a shit about what it wants and/or change our lives to appease its whims. If a god does exist, it sure as hell isn't any of the theistic religions that anyone but a fundamentalist sociopathic misanthropist believes in. Most theists believe in a loving god, but all theistic gods require and encourage people to rely solely on heuristics and logical fallacies to rationalize believing that a god exists. That isn't loving; that's abusive. So the gods that most theists believe in most definitely can't exist because those theists believe in a loving god and think it's the one from their scriptures. Those are mutually exclusive. Nothing any theist did in accordance with their religious beliefs has ever changed the probabilities of illness and disaster, meaning there is absolutely no sign that a god exists or has any impact on reality if one does exist, making it completely useless to even consider a god as a possibility. And to then assume you know anything about a god that you can't show to exist nor have an impact on reality is just lying. No one knows and no one can know. All theists are liars, turning their cowardly backs on integrity and humanity regardless of the damage they do to society and future generations. The bare minimum before we can take any claim about any god seriously is when a god is shown to be actually possible. And I am not going into your retarded presumption that there is only one god when you are most likely christian and the bible speaks of several gods and the only time it says there is only one it's in the context of there being only one you should worship over all other gods. But tell me, do you believe Zeus doesn't exist? And how did you come to that conclusion?
I have just left my religion 2 weeks ago and watching your vids. This one crackes me up. Cannot believe i wasted 8 years on believing this and thinking its ok. My bad
It wasn’t Judah that suggested Joseph be sold it was Ruben. But since you don’t believe in the Bible I guess you probably don’t care about the details being accurate. Good luck 🙏🏽
What's amazing to me is how many sons were born to these people. How did they find women to marry among their own when the ratio of men to women appeared to be 10:1? 🤔
They should have had a chapter where Shelah and his brother-nephews meet and greet. Now that would be interesting, brings to mind that 'I'm my own grandpa's song by Ray Stevens
I think u question the bible because you feel you dnt add up and u feel compromised but if we live right we dnt have to question the word but it's good to question if you dnt kno he say anything you ask in his son name he will give and any door u knock on shall be opened. I watched though.
Hello : Which "Everything Wrong With Genesis" video is the one where God give Abram or Abraham the ability to give birth from his loins? or butt babies ? I thought it was Gen 18 to 22 but cannot find the episode thx
Wow.. No wonder paster always got mad at me for asking questions about rest of chapter he cherry picked from. Never really believed but could of been at least a more interesting read.
After reading Geneses 38, I got this feeling in my bosom to become a street preacher that only preaches from this chapter
Mykhalable That would be amazing!
When you will stand before the judgement seat of G'd,
you will not find that mockery so funny anymore,
but hate what you have done.
Repent, before it is too late.
@@ro.m.6432 I think I'll just wait and continue to mock
@@ro.m.6432 Some people follow the path of love. You follow the path of threats.
@@ro.m.6432 i curl over laughing at people like you everyday, how can you be so blind and illogical. wake up brother!
I've noticed that "Yahweh" has evolved throughout Genesis from a walking, talking person who directly interacts and converses with his creation, to merely the force of nature blamed in absentia for people's untimely deaths.
That fills me with even more questions about the book's authorship, chronology, and originally intended function.
This is why history is the hardest detective work. All those answers may be lost in the fog of multiple sources.
That's because there are more than one God. There was a war in Heaven remember?
The Bible (i.e. the Jewish Bible) was compiled from many different sources. In some parts God is clearly only one god of many (e.g. Genesis 1), in other parts there is only one Jewish god, but lots of heathen gods who are just as real, but "evil" (e.g. the gods of Egypt, Baal, etc.). Eventually, it becomes a single "real" god, and none of the others ever "existed". Historically, Jews went from polytheistic (worship many gods), to henotheistic (many gods exist, worship only one), to monotheistic (only one god exists).
@L M oh. Love learning new things. Thanks for the links.
@L M watched that one with Hayes. Haven’t got to the others yet. But her lecture was fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
Canaanites and Hittites during this period have shrine prostitutes, women dedicated to fertility goddesses who practice sacred prostitution. However, in Deuteronomy, Israelites (both men and women) are forbidden from becoming these shrine prostitutes (Deut 23 17:18). That means Judah is not just a hypocrite, but also a racist hypocrite. He seems more than happy to pay for a prostitute provided that she's from a different culture and a different lineage. But he's quick to condemn them if they came from his own tribe. That's not just hypocrisy, that's the Bible recording the extent of sex-tourism during its time.
@Ron Maimon Depending on the translation, yeah. I don't read Hebrew. If the text just says "zona", then it's this guy being a hypocrite about getting a hooker. If it said "kedeshah", then it's sex tourism. Either way Judah's not the good guy here, I'd say.
@Ron Maimon Oh, so it -was- just "Zona".
Now, I'm curious, do you know if levirate marriage is just one wife being passed down a line of brothers? If the family ran out of brothers would the father have to go in to produce more offspring?
(The more I think of it, the more levirate marriage sound like the monster in "It Follows". It just gets passed down from one person to another to another...)
@Ron Maimon That's fair enough. And you're right... when's the Bible a good guide for anything?
Judah, who'd become also known as Israel, is the one whom the Jews are and their nation are named after. His sleeping with a pagan cult-prostitute is foreshadowing of national Israel's idolatry. Idolatry is linked over and over in the Bible with prostitution. So Judah is NOT the good guy in this story of course. Those rank idalotries this story foreshadows are what got Israel (the Northern kingdom) and Judah (the southern kingdom) thrown into exile in Babylon and Assyria.
As a former Christian, I’ve learned more from you then all my biblical teachings. I really can’t wait for your readings. Lol 😂
Folks will want to check out DarkMatters 2525's "The Most Bizarre Bible Story"
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and watch out for Jeffrey!
Debby S-AbqNM Hello, already seen it, very unimpressive and dumb 🙂
Daniel What’s dumb? The Bible wording or people who still believe?
@@Daniel-cz7kd -- "unimpressive and dumb" describes the bible very well!
@@darkmattersproject2951 ayo check out this chanel called "hwa bi Jung" it really good trust. Scroll down to find the last English ones.
Darkmatter's vid is hilarious, but I love your "friendly" take on it too.
This is one weird part of the bible
The Most Bizarre Bible Story, th-cam.com/video/uAQ1GJeYK0A/w-d-xo.html
@@debbys-abqnm4537 Thanks, I have been subscribed to Darkmatter's channel for a while now
Matt Bell Hello, you’re right it is hilarious, so mind-boggling stupid, I especially enjoyed the way you pointed out his “friendly” take on it too.
Man, I can't believe that when I was a teenager volunteering in my church, I used to encourage children to read the Bible! This book is not suitable for kids!!
(I've since become more educated and am no longer a Christian.)
Did you read the Bible?
Sarah Erickson Hello, what part of the Bible have you read or remember?
Close study of ALL of the bible should be compulsory. It sure converted me.
Religious christian people give being a christian a bad name.
Friendly Atheist, Hemant. I know this is said all the time but, these are great, with your humor. Awful without!👍💞😘✌😷🎃
Men blaming sex workers for their actions, even if those same men have been active with the sex workers that they blame, is certainly something which modern right wing ministers must have learned from this book of the bible. The hypocrisy from this bible story obviously didn't teach preachers of today any lessons in behavior. How many christian leaders have been found committing acts that they've condemned in their sermons? Thanks for this series of biblical exposition.
Maybe they consider banging hookers biblical.
God: Read my book and believe in me.
Me: (start reading) Hey, god, I have questions.
God: Stop questioning. Stop reading. Consult my human henchmen to get indoctrinated clarification. Just have faith.
Me: I thought reading your book directly without flawed human being’s intervention is the least deceptive method to believe in you.
God: If you keep reading, you’ll be an atheist.
Raag Amat Hello, excuse me but what kind of God or god are you talking to?
@@Daniel-cz7kd Hi. It’s a joke. Don’t take it literally.
It’s just how some versions of Abrahamic god behaves.
Raag Amat I wouldn’t waste your time with Daniel. He never gives you anything to grab ahold of. It’s like arguing with a child who thinks they know everything, but can’t answer direct questions.
Raag Amat Hello, ok; as I’ve learned from other sources: “I’ve heard better.”
@@losttribe3001 His past actions preceded him. Thanks for your warning 😁😁👍👍
God makes a habit of killing Judah's sons for the wickedness... but not Judah. Makes you wonder what the sons were capable of!
Really makes me question God's definition of "wickedness." Apparently, selling your brother into slavery isn't considered wicked to God??
@@DrBear-rk4qb A believer would tell you slavery was actually a lot more fun and trendy in these days.
Atleast God should have killed Er before his marriage. But somehow god only kills Er after his marriage, hence letting the destruction of Tamar's life also. Not a thoughtful God at all.
Yeah , and at that time how come the daughter in-law new before hand that the father in-law was coming? 5g network? And without Judah's descendents there is no house of David and therefore no....you guessed it. Such shaky foundations?
DAYUM, Tamar! You have to respect her for her guts and foresight. Also, the reaction of everyone else in the room was probably "You did WHAT with your daughter in law???"
I love how you said “ you won’t learn this in Sunday school” yeah… we did. They do not care when it comes to the Bible. But when we watched the Joseph movie they fast forwarded thru the scene with potifers wife. 😒 we already knew what was going on lol
Ever since you started this Genesis Project, I have been waiting for your reaction to verses 9-10 and it DID NOT disappoint!!
When I was a kid I used to get bored in Church so I read the Old Testament. What an education it was! Fascinating.! Also, there was no way they could legitimately tell me off for reading the Bible.
I actually remember a Sunday School lesson on Onan. I'm not sure how old I was, except I was in elementary school. I was old enough then to know the mechanics of sex (we had livestock animals which we bred). Years later, I thought I had imagined the whole story, until I reread the Bible in college. I wish I could go back and remember what the Sunday school lesson actually was. I remember picturing pulling the animals we raised apart during the activity.
This is now my favourite chapter. I feel like someone should pay you to stand in front of a mega-church and read this, with your commentary. They couldn't complain, after all, you are just reading the HOLY BIBLE.
I can't wait to see the next chapter. I love this series. I don't know how people can take the Bible seriously. It contradicts itself so much 😂
@Ron Maimon I get your point, but dude, those are two completely different epics. Hanuman appears in The Ramayana and The Bhagavad Gita is a small portion of The Mahabharata. Hanuman only makes a very tiny cameo in the latter.
@Ron Maimon But, as I said, your point is well taken.
@Ron Maimon So what did YOU learn from Chapter 38? What respect should I have for these characters?
@Ron Maimon God isn’t flawed or he isn't human? As I remember Yahweh poofed the first two humans into existence dumb as stumps, plopped the Tree of Knowledge right in front of them and told them not to eat from it and if they do, they will die right on the spot. Well, they eat from it anyway and this really pisses Yahweh off because it was so unexpected. Oh, and they go on living for another 900 years before they die.
So its 2000 years later and Yahweh thinks “Well this didn’t turn out at all like I expected”, so he floods out all life on the planet except for one really old dude, his family, and two, (or fives) of a few animals because Noah is the only upstanding guy on the planet. Well after a year of his boat filled to the rafters in elephant poo, the waters recede, Noah gets totally shit-faced and passes out. One of his sons sees his naked ass, so Noah curses the son. Yeah, Yahweh’s second try at this is going really well.
Noah’s incestuous family have been breeding like rabbits for 170 years and start making a tall building which totally freaks Yahweh out, so he makes them all speak different languages so they won’t ever be able to work together again and scatters them all over the planet.
Then there is Abraham. Yahweh tells him he wants a human sacrifice and to kill his son, to which Abraham says “No problem, what ever you say God”. At the last moment Yahweh, goes “Psych! Just wanted to see if you were sick and twisted enough to worship me. You can kill a goat instead”. Yahweh’s pretty much an abusive prick.
Apparently in Yahweh’s second attempt at populating the planet whenever a male visits a town, it was common practice for all of the local males to come and try to rape him. Once again there is only one virtuous guy, Abrahams nephew Lot, in town, if by virtuous you mean he offers his virgin daughters to the rape crowd to try to distract them from raping his angel guest, who tells him to leave town because Yahweh is going to nuke it. They leave town, Lot’s wife turns back to look, because how often do you get to see a town nuked. So Yahweh turns her into a pillar of salt, because why the fuck not?
Well it is 1800 years since the flood, and this second try is really not going well so Yahweh tries something new. He is still really pissed that Adam and Eve decided they didn’t want to remain stupid, so he comes up with a new plan so that he can forgive them. He will take a young virgin and without her permission he is going to get her pregnant. We have a word for that, but it slips my mind at the moment. Apparently the plan is that when the kid grows up, he will become a human sacrifice and that will make Yahweh feel better about the whole apple/knowledge thing. Except it really wasn’t much of a sacrifice because Yahweh’s rape child Jesus was up walking around a day and a half later, so more like an uncomfortable couple hours on the cross followed by a really bad hangover.
Oh yeah, if you don’t worship Jesus because of his inconvenience, you will be tortured for all eternity after you die. Yeah, totally believable story about characters I should love and worship.
So maybe Yahweh isn't flawed, but he does have a few personality quirks.
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God is imaginary, invented by primitive humans thousands of years ago just like every other deity used to comfort, control and scare the illiterate masses of people living in the desert half a world away thousands of years ago.
This one’s gonna be a doozy! Can’t wait!
The least crazy part of this chapter is how they define the eldest brother in a set of twins.
the crazy part is jesus has blood of prostitute woman who have sex with her father in-law and Christian worship this guy and they think he was pure guy to make his blood get away human sin LoL
I am sure many Christians never read the whole bible they only Cherrie picked verses.
I can hardly blame them, the damn book is sooooooo boring most of the time.
@@vivacristorey4728 ....sarcasm?
@@vivacristorey4728 oh than I'm sorry. Becuase you have a lot of evidence to bring foward. At the very least proving the jesus was magical in anyway. Without pointing to your bible.
@@vivacristorey4728 lol, are you hiding god and not wanting your Nobel prize? You provide actual evidence for a god and you can get one. Dosent your book say to spread the word of your god? Are you going to go against your own holy book?
But let me go ahead and guess. Your going to give me bad reasoning or a very biased form of "evidence." But please, surprise me.
@@vivacristorey4728 lol. That's because you have nothing. If you had something you would have brought it foward as commanded by your holy book. Sad, you might have turned a non believer into believer. But that is assuming you had actual evidence that would convince a reasonable person and won a Nobel prize.
What gets me is that God had this one chance to record God's immortal word which would still be revered millennia in the future; the perfect guide for human morality. Failing that, God could have at least said something useful, like "thou shalt not keep slaves". Instead, this little story is what we get recorded in the Bible.
So in the wholly fables we have a tale of the pullout.
The pull out method is less reliable than playing the powerball LOL
Is this the second pull out? I can't remember if he told us about a guy pulling out and being put to death before.
@@sharonsmith1203 yeah because that is supposed to be a sin. Along with hairy palms and the blindness.
@@grapeshot never heard of the hairy palms??
@@sharonsmith1203 yeah it's one of the many myths of the m word.
Why doesn't Ken Ham have a recreation of this in his creation museum?
It would be the recreation area?
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Next to Lot's cave.
@@d.o.m.494 that would be 'something for the daddies'
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Lot's wife is in the restaurant
Scrape some of her onto your dinner.
@@d.o.m.494 Probably one of Lot's favourite jokes to crack: my wife can't cook, but she still makes a meal taste good.
Genesis 38:2 Judah “took” her. Marriage is not mentioned. They could be referring to rape.
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Breech birth, right? Yeah, not good. But what REALLY has me concerned is the fact that there appear to be two babies in the birth canal at the same time. I don't care how many you've got in there, that's not going to work. They'd both suffocate.
In these days they didn't have the Napoleontic inheritence laws, it was the winner takes it all. I can imagine babies knew this and twins would wrestle each other in the whomb. The one with his arm out was probably kicked in the nuts, tackled and pulled back in by the other one...
Just like runners struggling to break the finish ribbon line first.
I never heard this story in a church.
Every joke is funnier when the punchline is, "The Aristocrats".
I was howling with laughter. I didn't realise the Bible was full of comedy.
It's an explicit version of "much ado about nothing"
So, one son with a name that makes him sound like the parents weren’t sure what to call him and another with a name that his mates will rip the piss constantly
@Ron Maimon Thx for the hebraistic footnote
Wonder why they never did a VeggieTales of this one.🤔
Also, now I think I will always be imagining a VeggieTales version of all of these and all of Godless engineer's daily Bible podcast.
I just watched a christian explanation for this chapter and I have to say that your commentary was far superior
These veils in the in the Bronze Age fairy tales of the Wholly Fable, as soon as somebody put them on they have the greatest disguise since Superman puts on glasses and becomes Clark Kent.
Well they are claimed to not have seen each other for years, so in this the tale is coherent...
Voice? Hands, maybe.
Maybe they were having social distancing sex, facing away from one another. keeping their face coverings on throughout.
( or maybe it was a three paper bag occasion!)
....
See the Bible has scientific truths throughout.
@Ron Maimon Much of the bible seems to approve of such punishments, what a wonderful book! So suitable for our children. It should though be compulsory reading by all students over 12 . A sort of inoculation against religious belief.
@Ron Maimon I'm hooked, who was 'J'?
Great work. If you are referring to other biblical texts that omit words, could you please mention the translations you are referring to? that would be helpful.
I enjoy listening to you very much
When I first came across your show
I didn’t like it but now I understand what you’re teaching
I have much respect
4:26 This verse is almost universally misinterpreted by catholics to claim that masturbation is a sin even though it is obviously referring to coitus interruptus. The bible doesn't actually mention masturbation except possibly in habbakkuk 2:16
@Ron Maimon Onan means strength or power.
@Ron Maimon Where in Leviticus does in mention masturbation? It talks about a man's seed leaving him but that could mean a nocturnal emission.
@Ron Maimon Most sources say it means strength or power though some say it means "mourner" the masturbation connection doesn't appear outside of catholic legend.
@Ron Maimon Modern Hebrew and ancient hebrew are entirely different languages. I can cite many sources, what source can you cite?
@Ron Maimon If what you're saying was true you'd be able to provide a reference. You're expecting me to take your word for the " -fact- " that you're right and thousands of academic sources are wrong. Sorry, I wasn't born yesterday!
Your suggestion that a language spoken over 3000 years ago has changed less than English has in 500 years is absurd!
The association of Onan with masturbation is much more recent, it shouldn't be surprising that that association has led to new meaning of ancient words in Hebrew just as it has in English,
“Onan knew that the child would not be his” - it means that the kid would receive the inheritance that Er would have received and it would not go to Onan.
hi Mr FA
I am glad that I met you here with Genesis 38, last I saw you was Genesis 19 , and I feel like I have really mist nothing.Very well done!
That was er-ratic behavior.
Like I said before chapter 38 appears to be a later insertion, interrupting the Joseph story and instead focuses on Judah and his children.
Oh come on I wanted to know what will happen to Joseph after he was sold in egypt
Your comment made me think of the Testimonium Flavianum. It also interrupts narrative flow, and the text makes perfect sense without it.
Robert Kirby Does that mean you accept the Bible as nothing but a man made creation? Or do you believe it’s God’s “inspired” word? I’m confused as to where you stand....
Because if there was an maximal powerful being which we call God, he could made his “perfect” word more clearer and without all the contradictions. It’s partially why I’m an atheist. The Bible fails at so many levels and doesn’t make sense other than it was written by ignorant people, in an ignorant period of time.
PS, there’s a Robert Kirby who is a Mormon humor columnist in Utah? Just have to ask if you’re someone different? I’ve met the guy and he’s funny as hell. (I use to be Mormon fyi)
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Yes, I consider the Bible a man made creation.
Robert Kirby But is God a man made creation?
You’re being awfully shady with your wording and I smell a dishonesty in your answer. Like you don’t have the courage to just come out and say it... So please correct me if I’m wrong.
This is the best episode yet
Onan, the pull-out mastermind...
I read this in the amazing graphic novel, "Outrageous Tales from the Old Testament"
Amazing! More!
best series ever..keep up the good work
I just discovered this channel. I like it, except for one thing...the background music is hard to filter from the dialogue. Please reduce the volume of the background music.
The Bible - There's Jesus and Jizzus. I just totally spilled my tea.
The whole book is screwy, I just had to listen to this again. I was a JW, and vaguely remember this part. I think they tried to justify his visiting a prostitute, but was really her father-in-law by her being more righteous than him. This is like the Lot & daughters scenario, totally screwed up.
Thx God for Hemant!!!!... kidding. I had a blast with your video. You really cheer me up in my pandemic seclusion!! I wish we had in Spanish an equivalent to your videos. Oh well, I guess God (here I go again) has forgotten native Spanish speakers exist. Hi, from Mexico.
Good job!
The background music is unnecessary at best IMO.
He could turn down the volume, yes. But I like the track. Makes his jokes sound twice as funny 🤣🤣
Why is it that I never hear the music?
JoAnn Kuhr Hello and well said, the music and his videos are indeed unnecessary, only showing and broadcasting his foolishness to all.
I didn't know you follow DarkMatter2525, I've watched his and your videos since 2015
Loved this channel real and simple and funny.
Just found your channel and just want to say, thank you. Loving the vids.
Thank you for all your work.
I appreciate if you can advice how to mask the loud background music, so I can hear what you saying without being annoyed 😑
BTW, I have hearing problem and I think the background music so loud ‼️😁
Anyhow, I appreciate your work so much
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50 shades of the bible
So Genesis is heavy with genealogies, one after another. It's all about the genealogy. And all this genealogy is for the sole purpose of leading to the messiah.
If you compare the lists in Matthew and Luke, the first fourteen names agree. Let me suggest everyone chart this chapter on paper like a family tree. Show it to the next annoying proselytizer.
Asking purely out of curiosity, Re: the "leading to the Messiah" portion: why does it matter that we know so much about his forefathers?
@@avimohan6594 The bloodline to the messiah had to be pure to make the eventual messiah's claim believable.
@@rickmartin7596 'pure' in what sense? I'm getting the feeling there was some sort of necessity to connect him to Moses et al for some reason.
@@avimohan6594 Typically it is easier to convince people of your importance if you come from an important family. From Adam to Noah to Moses to King David ... that's one impressive pedigree.
Bloodlines had to be protected in cultures without paternity testing, so it is easy to understand how this could become a cultural imperative. The important man fathered the important children. If the children weren't his, the line was broken.
@Zeal! It was for that culture at that time ... or at least for the purposes of that author at that time.
This chapter must be the inspiration behind the old TV show "Peyton Place."
Onan laid the groundwork for most of modern pornography.
Love this series, Hemant! 🧡👍
Isn't Tamar, in Matthews very dubious genealogy of Jeebus, one of Jeebus distant ancestors?
That's why she has a name other than wife of
I enjoy listening to you when I first come across you, I didn’t like you but as I learned what you were teaching, I have much respect
hahaa this was what i was waiting for!!
Darkmatter 2525 made a hilarious cartoon about this chapter.
will this series continue until revelation book? :)
Maybe someone should do a sequel to "Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat"? I think it would get even higher attendance figures than the original!!!
Mark What "Judah and his Amazing Canaanite Concubine" type of thing? With Onan's hit number : "I've got the Dead Brother's Widow Blues", Tamar's soul ballad "Third time pays for all" and Judah's upbeat "Burn the Bitch!" Should do well.
Man you should turn this I into a DVD to teach the religious what morals are all about
The background music is eerily appropriate in this one. LOL!
How does anyone take this book seriously?
Steve Tell Hello, it’s easy, apart from the videos, what do you know or have read of the Bible?
Daniel its easy for you to believe that. 600 year old man built a giant boat and grabbed two of every animal on earth to set afloat for over a year? Ok....
Wow!!!! lol great vid
I didn’t even watch the intro, I’m paused on the ad before the video, the message is about hypocrisy and the commitment Judah failed and the shame it brought him and Tamar and both of their sexual impurities before God. It’s never too late to turn to God and he will give you actual truth, not speculation from a demon who claims to be friendly, I’d rather offend those into Heaven than to kindly sooth those into Hell and once you get there you can speculate on how Gods word didn’t make sense to you for the rest of eternity. You claim there stories are awful and too gross for children yet you don’t see the world we live in. Listen to Gods word and he will give you actual truth not what you decide whatever it means to you. What you intend for bad was actually intended for good whether the demons closing your eyes see it or not. I hope you gain no following dragging those with you to hell.
Best chapter yet.
keep them coming, I have had a good laugh
When you said, "went up to Timnah", I heard, "went onto Tinder".
38:20-21 you missed the gold. “Shrine prostitute” was this a common thing? No wonder the church is so rich and powerful.
Yes, why do you think Jesus got mad at the temple and wrecked it? That is how the temple made money?
Chris Horsfield, the Canaanites worshipped a fertility goddess. One way to worship her was by having sex with a priestess.
"God smote er and onan for being wicked." Tamar was likely behind this, "these men wont please me, so i smote them myself and blame god for it." That'll make more sense. But all in all, the bible is so bad.
Dudes pull out game is on point.
'For unto them a child is born... and another, and another...'
Onan the Arbarian...
Well played, sir. Well played.
I can't keep up with these Kardashians and their sex lives. I'm going to have to listen to this chapter again and not get distracted by all the sex swapping.
I’m guessing this story was occurring while Joseph was in Egypt. And only 20 some years have passed when they met again. I am assuming that all of Judah’s kids where born one after another and boys officially enter manhood at 12 or 13. So that means two of his sons died as teens. Who knows how old Tamar was but she couldn’t have been that old.
Only 1:54 mins in and I can sense your deception already. When was it ever "forbidden" to marry a Cananite woman? I'm sure you missed the fact that Esau married 2 Cananites. "Undesirable" and "forbidden" are 2 completely different words.
It's easy to not desire something that's forbidden.
Murder is forbidden and i dont desire to have it happen.
They were racist, Rebecca said to Jacob that she didn’t want hum to marry one of those canaanite hors
Just who was there at the time taking all this down Noah must have had a lot to remember as he built a wooden boat bigger than we can build today
This chapter is one of the most ridiculous chapter I have read. And you made it funny.
"[someone] was wicked so the lord put them to death."
And nowhere does it say why. That's not just stupid, it's evil.
People are guessing and interpreting and assuming it's because of previous context AND THEY DO THE SAME FUCKING THING WHEN THEY GET SICK OR LOSE A LOVED ONE BECAUSE OF THAT FUCKING BOOK!
I breathed in and out, I'm good. Let's continue. People are guessing and interpreting and assuming context in all parts of their lives and their scriptures to try and appease their god and they still get sick and lose loved ones, so not only is their god unclear, no matter what you do, it's never good enough and it's all on you to figure it out and take the blame for it.
Well? Have you figured it out? Or do I need to spell it out for ya?
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For crying out loud. Stop being a victim who turns their backs on humanity to appease a fucking narcissist. When shit hits the fan PEOPLE help others to get back up. When you feel down, PEOPLE are there to comfort you. When you need a friend PEOPLE WILL ACTUALLY TALK with you. God just stays silent and gives you a new disease as punishment for who knows what and you will again try to figure out why and probably blame the godlessness of all those people who helped others instead of blaming your god, who doesn't even exist by the way. It's just probability and causality and a figment of your imagination running wild with it because you rather have a wrong answer that is comforting to you, despite the damage it does to others and to society for generations to come, than having no answer. So, if you're religious, fuck you!
Setekh Hello, interesting thought, are you saying God does not exist?
Er and Onan could not be permitted to enter the bloodline because their mother was a Canaanite. This is especially strange since the Canaanites gradually _became_ the Israelites.
@@Daniel-cz7kd It's an interesting thought, believing in god, but being convinced that he's evil. the judgment day preppers?
@@Daniel-cz7kd You win the award of Missing The Point Completely, and the award of Most Logical Fallacies in one sentence! You must feel so accomplished!
Whether or not A god exists is not the point and if you read my comment you should realize that it shouldn't fucking matter if one does because no one has any way of showing that there is one or that we could possibly know what it wants or if we should even give a shit about what it wants and/or change our lives to appease its whims.
If a god does exist, it sure as hell isn't any of the theistic religions that anyone but a fundamentalist sociopathic misanthropist believes in. Most theists believe in a loving god, but all theistic gods require and encourage people to rely solely on heuristics and logical fallacies to rationalize believing that a god exists.
That isn't loving; that's abusive. So the gods that most theists believe in most definitely can't exist because those theists believe in a loving god and think it's the one from their scriptures. Those are mutually exclusive.
Nothing any theist did in accordance with their religious beliefs has ever changed the probabilities of illness and disaster, meaning there is absolutely no sign that a god exists or has any impact on reality if one does exist, making it completely useless to even consider a god as a possibility. And to then assume you know anything about a god that you can't show to exist nor have an impact on reality is just lying. No one knows and no one can know. All theists are liars, turning their cowardly backs on integrity and humanity regardless of the damage they do to society and future generations.
The bare minimum before we can take any claim about any god seriously is when a god is shown to be actually possible.
And I am not going into your retarded presumption that there is only one god when you are most likely christian and the bible speaks of several gods and the only time it says there is only one it's in the context of there being only one you should worship over all other gods.
But tell me, do you believe Zeus doesn't exist? And how did you come to that conclusion?
@@marcdecock7946 Hello, are you saying you believe in god? What makes you think he’s evil? What are “the judgement day preppers?”
TFW you share a middle name with a biblical character. Yipes.
Good stuff, good stuff. I’d love to see a comedy sitcom made from Genesis.
I have just left my religion 2 weeks ago and watching your vids. This one crackes me up. Cannot believe i wasted 8 years on believing this and thinking its ok. My bad
Imagine 38 years😢
"The Aristocrats!"
in the middle of the video, I was lost who is who, who is banging who... I really need to pay more atention.
It wasn’t Judah that suggested Joseph be sold it was Ruben. But since you don’t believe in the Bible I guess you probably don’t care about the details being accurate. Good luck 🙏🏽
What's amazing to me is how many sons were born to these people. How did they find women to marry among their own when the ratio of men to women appeared to be 10:1? 🤔
Slaves could be forced to cut off their male parts so that lowers the amount of men to compete with.
I am a christian but I still think Genesis 38 is totally not made for kids
11:00 The reason why the kid wouldn't be his is the kid would be named after his uncle and not necessarily his father.
They should have had a chapter where Shelah and his brother-nephews meet and greet. Now that would be interesting, brings to mind that 'I'm my own grandpa's song by Ray Stevens
I think u question the bible because you feel you dnt add up and u feel compromised but if we live right we dnt have to question the word but it's good to question if you dnt kno he say anything you ask in his son name he will give and any door u knock on shall be opened.
I watched though.
Hello : Which "Everything Wrong With Genesis" video is the one where God give Abram or Abraham the ability to give birth from his loins? or butt babies ? I thought it was Gen 18 to 22 but cannot find the episode thx
Gen 15 :) th-cam.com/video/b18M1Xdpw38/w-d-xo.html
@@FriendlyAtheist1 Total thx FA...love this channel and series
My husband said don't put on a veil I have I mask that turns me on 😂😂
Let's make a movie of this chapter. I'm so sure more than 1 billion christians would love to watch it. Hugh profit is waiting..👌👍😊
Wow.. No wonder paster always got mad at me for asking questions about rest of chapter he cherry picked from. Never really believed but could of been at least a more interesting read.