[lit-ideas] Re: Homo Hominis Lupus
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:58:49 -0500
I've always wondered why the Lord God hides the truth about the apple in
Genesis, while the serpent tells the truth about the apple. Or if there
are two God(s) in Genesis. Here's a take on the second question. -EY
[An excerpt from _God:a Biography_ by Jack Miles]
In the first creation account, God created man to be God's own image. The
second creation account is different. Here the Lord God creates man from
the dust, not by the word of his mouth, and never describes his
creatures as made in his image. ....
In the first creation account, the relationship between creator and
creature is not about obedience at all. God is so magisterially powerful
but also so splendidly generous that human misbehavior cannot possibly
trouble his calm. His "be fertile and increase" is more a magnanimous
invitation than a command. Barely two pages later, the Lord God seems not
just less powerful and less generous than God but far more vindictive.
Worse, he is as gratuitous in his wrath as God is gratuitous in his
bounty. ....
As a character, the Lord God is disturbing as anyone who holds immense
power and seems not to know what he wants to do with it. ....
There are not two protagonists in this text, only one. But this one
protagonist has two strikingly distinct personalities.
[Vintage paperback 1995 (pp.35-38)]
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