My question is.....who wrote Genesis?

Ok, so I am an atheist, but I'm not here to bash any beliefs or anything. I just want to know- who wrote the book of Genesis exactly? To me, there seems to be kind of a piece missing to the puzzle. If in the beginning, there was only a God, and he created Adam and Eve- then how did the person who wrote the Book of Genesis even know this to begin with? It would only make sense that perhaps Adam wrote this book or Eve would have had to write this book in order for this to make sense. Was there some guy writing this book "Genesis" at the same time that this event was taking place? Anyways, thats just my thoughts on that subject.

 

http://www.british-israel.ca/Genesis.htm

 

George Bush

 

Jews did it

 

George Bush can't read or write ......lol

 

It was really Chuck Norris.

 

that's a lot more believable

 

Ok. I admit it. It was me.

 

Chuck Norris does not find your blasphemy entertaining.

 

This reminds me of the questions I used to ask 6 years ago. I was quite ignorant of much of Christian and all religious trivia.

It is traditionally ascribed to Moses (think Charelton Heston in The 10 Commandments). modern Biblical scholarship points towards two authors (or authoring groups) known as J and P (at least Genesis 1-11). J is Jahwist and P is Priestly. They are concerned about different things and have different styles. read Genesis 1 and then Genesis 2. God acts differently, and is called different things. There is more to it than that, but it is pretty simple. With a trained eye you can separate the two strains in the Noah Flood account as well. An ancient redactor compiled it into one set of scripture. This is known as the Documentary Hypothesis. Most Christians will reject it.

 

Simple, God told them what to write, after he was there and should know. (2 Peter 1:21)

 

so some writings by Peter are valid enough?

 

peter was the only one to kick some ass, take a ear here and there.. Maybe his word is good..

 

I can go along with that ....certainly a step up from Saul... I mean Paul

 

Whats interesting is what is in The Book of Jubilees thats not in Genesis (the parts about brothers and sisters gettin it on).

 

I did

 

there's another one too...can't remember it right now

book of jasher

http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/apo/jasher/1.htm

 

Yes, so if you go by Creationism we are all inbred, if you go by Darwin we are all hairless monkeys

Ahhh, the choices

 

judging from your picture... i think you're leaning toward the monkey side

 

phil collins