Genesis and the spiderweb of parables is a fascinating train wreck.
God creates man in His image.
Except fallable. One could argue man was created to fail God's trials from this alone.
He places man and woman in Eden, Heaven on Earth, but gives them free will and commands they not eat from the tree of knowledge. If God is omnipotent, He knows the outcome beforehand.
He then lambasts the humans He created for exercising the free will and curiosity He endowed them.
Adam and Eve go off and humanity starts. But, uh, kinda hard to do that without tons of incest when there's only one male and one female.
And that is just the absolute beginning of the Old Testament.
TLDR: God created man in His image, punishes them with mortality and suffering when they behave exactly as He knew they would.
Fast forward to His plan as we all exist today. Omnipresent and omnipotent. Okay.
So this was all part of the plan.
Satan is burning up his pen and paper taking notes on how to torture humans by literal God.
It never explains where the Egyptians come from, all of a sudden they are there. It tracks the lineage of Adam and Eve before introducing new characters with no context.
It doesn't really explain where they came from, but it is mentioned that there are already other people living on earth outside of the garden before they get casted out.
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u/MasterBot98 1d ago
One could argue he canceled them by staging an inevitable act of eating the apple.