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Between God, the mysterious audience, animals and human beings.

The conversations supposedly said to have happened in the very beginning of the world.

By Ikechukwu ModungwoPublished 11 months ago 3 min read

Genesis 1 verse 26
"Then God said, "And we will make human beings; they will be like us and resemble us. They will have power over the fish, the birds and all animals, domestic and wild, large and small." "

According to the bible, the invention of man was born out of a statement made by God. In this statement, the speaker seemed to have been addressing an audience. The mysterious audience cloaked in the phrase " and we will make human beings; they will be like us and resemble us.

Based off of the meaning of the word "we" in the Oxford English dictionary, I understand that it's a pronoun used to personify more than one person.
So I gave it some thought. "God must have been speaking to an audience." I reasoned. Then again there's no record of there being anyone else but God at the beginning of creation. Which means that there couldn't have been an audience to talk to.

Genesis 1 verse 20 to 22:
" Then God commanded, " let the water be filled with many kinds of living beings, and let the air be filled with birds." So God created the great sea monsters, all kinds of creatures that live in the water and all kinds of birds. And God was pleased with what he saw. He blessed them all and told the creatures that live in the water to reproduce, and to fill the sea, and he told the birds to increase in number.

Again according to the bible, God created the fishes and the birds before any other kinds of animal. And he told them literally to reproduce.
Yet again I gave it some thought. Could it be that God can talk to the birds and the fishes? Could it be that it was these creatures he was speaking to when he said "and we will make human beings; they will be like us and resemble us." ?
Even that assumption contradicts itself, because human being looks nothing like fishes or birds. And of course nobody can say that they know what God looks like. So that possibly couldn't be it.

Genesis 3 verse 1:
Now the snake was the most cunning animal that the Lord God had made. The snake asked the woman, " did God really tell you not to eat fruit from any tree in the garden?"

Okay. Maybe I'm missing something here. Somehow the snake was able to talk to the woman? Naturally, according to the world at present, human beings do not talk to snakes. Nor do snakes talk to human beings.
With the exception of a minute amount of people, human beings are mostly afraid of snakes and would at first instinct either flee or pick up something to use as a weapon against the snake on sighting one.
While the snake on the other hand wouldn't mind taking a bite out of the flesh of a human being, injecting deadly and poisonous snake venom into the human being, and some snakes they say are even big enough to swallow a human being whole. All of these actions does not bode well for the affected human being and most times can lead to certain death.

Genesis 3 verse 14 to 15:
Then the Lord God said to the snake, " you will be punished for this; you alone of all the animals must bear this curse; from now on you will crawl on your belly and you will have to eat dust as long as you live. I will make you and the woman hate each other; her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offsprings will crush your head and you will bite her offspring's heels."

Okay I'll bite.
Maybe these events recorded in the bible seeks to explain the present state of the world where snakes and human beings can be said to be notorious enemies, the origin of life itself and the fealty of God, but it doesn't explain the conversations supposedly said to have happened in the very beginning of the world, between God, the mysterious audience, animals and human beings.

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Ikechukwu Modungwo

I'm an online entrepreneur sharing insights on digital solutions and marketing, as well as a passionate blogger and music lover.

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