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Originally Posted by Ustwo
The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree
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it gets a lot more plausible if you factor in the whole bit where two of every species of animal on earth was loaded onto a handmade wooden barge just before the entire planet was flooded until it became a vast watery expanse.
it's seems to me an inescapable characteristic of the old testament universe that the human race is descended from some really rather ratty and inbred genes, if we all came from the same two characters (and one, as you say, was derived from the rib of the other).
embarking from such a genetic cul de sac, it's a wonder we aren't all hydrocephalic imbeciles at this juncture. but evidently the authors of the bible were no more aware of rudimentary genetics than they were that the sky wasn't a flat canopy over which a vast unseeable hierarchy of heaven could be inscribed. nor did they seem to know that the ground wasn't a flat firmament just barely containing the fires of a vast holy internment camp.
it's actually not their fault, the authors of the bible. they did quite beautifully given the body of knowledge they had at the time. but as for so many of us, 2000 years later, still believing it literally? i really have no way of accounting for that.