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1rastaphrog
Maio 3, 2013, 10:15 am

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2tomcatMurr
Maio 3, 2013, 11:01 am

lol

3Sandydog1
Maio 4, 2013, 7:49 pm

Maybe those two are a bit TOO wanted...

4Booksloth
Maio 12, 2013, 7:09 am

I'm in the middle of a quite interesting and amusing book called God Hates You, Hate Him Back, which dissects the Bible chapter by chapter, noting every crime 'God' commits or incites, from gang rape to murder-by-turning-people-into-pillars-of-salt. I've only just got to the end of Deuteronomy and the body count is already up to 31,718,001 (approximately). I don't think it's yet included death from drug use or 'accidental poisonings' from his other plants (not to mention 'death from having rescinded the eternal life promise, just because someone ate the wrong apple). Maybe I should contact the publishers and demand a rewrite.

5rastaphrog
Maio 12, 2013, 9:09 am

Looks interesting. Just out of curiosity, what was the body count given for the flood?

6EricJT
Maio 12, 2013, 3:28 pm

I'd recommend God Hates You: Hate Him Back too.

7Booksloth
Maio 14, 2013, 6:08 am

#5 The estimate for the flood comes to . . . . (off to look it up) . . . . (imagine footsteps receding and returning here please) . . . 30,000,000 (apparently that is the number Wiki estimates as the world's population at the time). Obviously that makes up the biggest single massacre. Since then god has just dabbled in odd thousands really. I'm at the end of Kings now with a count of 31,749,532.

Yes, it's a fun and interesting book and also works as a good precis of the Bible in general without all the begetting.

8Amtep
Maio 14, 2013, 6:44 am

#7: yeah but that's not a very biblical estimate is it? :)

According to genesis 5, Noah was born 1056 years after creation, and the flood happened when he was 600 years old, so around 1656.

It's not clear how many people the world started with, since Adam seems variously one person or multiple. But since Noah's geneaology refers to Adam as one person, let's assume it all started with one couple. Generations seemed to be slower back then (the youngest father in the list was 65), so let's say about 20 generations. Noah only begat three sons in his 600 years so it doesn't seem that they went any faster after getting started.

If each generation every woman bears a child, and half the population are women, and about 10% die of old age, then that's a 40% population growth every generation. Startting with a single couple, that puts us at around 1700 people at the time of the flood. It could easily be anywhere from 1000 to 3000, depending on the details of the first generation. (Adam begat Seth after 130 years, but was that his first child or just his first son?)

That's a lot less than 30 million :)

9jjwilson61
Maio 14, 2013, 9:42 am

Yet God apparently killed millions before Noah, so the people of the early bible must have been far more prolific than you give them credit for.