Beyond mere differences in vocabulary and style, even deeper differences emerge among the sources of the Old Testament - differences which concern theology and doctrine.  The most striking differences occur when the Priestly text is compared to the earlier traditions, namely the Yahwist and Elohist sources. 

     Angels are never mentioned in the Priestly text.[1]  This links the Priestly text with the Sadducees, who likewise did not believe in angels.[2]  Dreams and visions from God are never mentioned in the Priestly text.[3]  This is also similar to the doctrine of the Sadducees, about whom Josephus wrote, "they don't believe in fate at all, and suppose that God does not worry with what we do."[4]  In contrast, the earlier sources do mention angels, dreams, and visions. 

     The Priestly text emphasizes rituals, priestly orders, and the Law given on Mount Sinai.  In contrast, the earlier sources piece together a history from anecdotal stories concerning the Hebrews' ancestors.  In this, the Sadducees are like the Priestly text, and the Pharisees are like the earlier sources.  As Josephus testified,

 

The Sadducees don't keep anything except what the Law requires… (but) the Pharisees have given the masses a lot of traditions from their ancestors.[5]

 

Thus, a case can be made that the Sadducees were the spiritual descendents of the Jerusalem priests who wrote the Priestly text.  Not only did the Sadducees inherit the Jerusalem priesthood from them, they also inherited a number of doctrinal assumptions from them.  As such, there is apparently some kind of denominational continuity from the priesthood of Zadok which existed in pre-exilic times, down to the Sadducees of Hellenic and Roman times.  They retained certain similarities through the centuries, uniting them as a denomination. 

     One of the most defining doctrines the Sadducees shared with the Priestly text was the doctrine of God's nature.  They both saw God as all-powerful, all-wise, spiritual, and heavenly.  In contrast, the earlier sources had a much more down-to-earth concept of God.  The earlier sources say that God repented and changed his mind about the Flood and about wishing to destroy Israel.  He prefers to walk when it is cool outside.  He asks Adam and Eve and their son Cain some questions as if he did not know the answers. He even feels threatened by human achievements such as the Tower of Babel.[6]  In contrast to the Priestly text's view of God, the God of the earlier sources is prima facie not all-powerful, not all-wise, not spiritual, and not heavenly. 

     These factors enable us to separate the theology of Genesis 1 from that of the earlier sources, for the God of Genesis 1 is all-wise, all-powerful, and is heavenly.  Seven times Genesis 1 insists about creation that "God saw that it was good."[7]  This runs quite contrary to the Yahwist account which records that "Yahweh repented that he created Adam."[8] 

     In Genesis 1, and indeed throughout the entirety of the Priestly text, God is super-cosmic – dwelling above all creation.  When he created rainbows, he distinguished himself from "the flesh on the earth."[9]  But in the earlier sources, God takes visible form inside the cosmos, walking as a man alongside Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Jacob.[10] 

     In the Priestly text, when the Israelites suffered slavery in Egypt, God did not come down to investigate; rather, "their cry ascended to God."[11]  This is in sharp contrast to the God of the earlier Yahwist source, who actively comes down to investigate when the Tower of Babel is being built.[12]    One God observes from the heavens.  The other God observes from the earth.

     When the God of the Priestly text came to Mount Sinai, he hid himself in a fiery cloud and no one was permitted to see him.[13]  This contrasts with the earlier Elohist account where "Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God."  In the Elohist account, it is the people who choose not to meet God because they are frightened of him – God does not hide himself, rather the people hide from God.[14]  In the Elohist account, God even eats dinner with Moses and the elders while he is thundering commandments from the mountaintop.[15]

     Yet for all of his invisible heavenly glory, the God of the Priestly text still demands idols of cherubim be built.[16]  This is in sharp contradiction to the Ten Commandments, which forbid all graven images.  The Ten Commandments most likely come from the Elohist-Deuteronomist tradition with which Abiathar and Jeremiah were affiliated.[17] 

          In short, the God presented in Genesis 1 is consistent only with the God of the Priestly text, and can in no way be forced to reconcile with the God of the earlier sources.

Return to this section's landing page:  Genesis 1 is a forgery.

The creationist narrative in Genesis 1 is contradicted by many ancient Christian texts.  Instead of an Almighty Creator God, ancient Christian texts espouse that the universe was born from blind arrogance and stupidity.  The angels caused evolution to occur from species to species.  There are many gods, (or aliens?), and the Christian God is just one among them.  Satan the Devil writes scripture, and thus the Bible was polluted with Genesis 1.  Archaeology and modern scholarship demonstrate that Genesis is indeed corrupted.  Cavemen walk with Adam and Eve.  Esoteric prophecies reveal the coming of Christ, and also reveal the dark forces that govern the cosmos.  Such are the ancient Christian writings.

Science vindicates the truth of these ideas.  Evolution often happens too fast for Darwin’s theory.  Gaps in the fossil record indicate that some kind of unnatural force acts together with natural selection.  Astrobiology reveals that intelligent life probably evolved long before us.  The fossil record reveals strange clues that aliens abducted species and transported them across oceans, and that DNA from diverse lineages was combined to spawn hybrid species.  Evidently, aliens influence evolution, and they are the gods of the world’s religions. 

This is not fiction.  All these facts are thoroughly documented in the links above.

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