First of all, no Yahweh is not love. Love is an emotion in human minds due to chemicals and neurons. Yahweh is a warrior and at times a killer.
Exodus 15:3:
Yahweh is a man of war;
Yahweh is his name.
Isaiah 42:13:
Yahweh goes forth like a mighty man;
like a man of war(s) he stirs up his fury.
Zephaniah 3:17: Yahweh, your God, is in your midst,
a warrior who gives victory.
Psalm 24:8:
Who is the King of Glory?
Yahweh, strong and mighty;
Yahweh, mighty in battle.
In these passages Yahweh is explicitly called a warrior or directly compared to a warrior. If one
moves out from simple designations to actual functioning, the metaphor or image is even more
extensively present. Yahweh is the subject of many verbs that belong to the sphere of warfare
Love????????????????????????????????????
Yes and than Yahweh kills them. If I have kids and they make a graven image or don't believe in me or eat forbidden fruit and I kill them it's ME who is the murderer.
"You made me do it" is the sociopath manipulative thing people say when they won't take responsibility.
The flood drowned an awful lot of babies.
Anyway, Genesis is known even by most Christians to be a myth so it's silly to analyze the structure. It has a metaphorical meaning.
Like the
Genesis flood narrative, the
Genesis creation narrative and the account of the
Tower of Babel, the story of Eden echoes the
Mesopotamian myth of a king, as a primordial man, who is placed in a divine garden to guard the
tree of life.
The
Genesis creation narrative is the
creation myth[a] of both
Judaism and
Christianity.
Comparative mythology provides historical and cross-cultural perspectives for
Jewish mythology. Both sources behind the Genesis creation narrative borrowed themes from
Mesopotamian mythology,
[18][19] but adapted them to
their belief in one God,
Genesis 1–11 as a whole is imbued with Mesopotamian myths.
Genesis 2 has close parallels with a second Mesopotamian myth, the
Atra-Hasis epic – parallels that in fact extend throughout
Genesis 2–11, from the Creation to the
Flood and its aftermath.
Enuma Elish - The Babylonian Epic of Creation - Full Text
Genesis/Enuma Elish
The Enuma Elish would later be the inspiration for the Hebrew scribes who created the text now known as the biblical Book of Genesis. Prior to the 19th century CE, the
Bible was considered the oldest book in the world and its narratives were thought to be completely original. In the mid-19th century CE, however, European museums, as well as academic and religious institutions, sponsored excavations in Mesopotamia to find physical evidence for historical corroboration of the stories in the Bible. These excavations found quite the opposite, however, in that, once
cuneiform was translated, it was understood that a number of biblical narratives were Mesopotamian in origin.
Famous stories such as the Fall of Man and the Great Flood were originally conceived and written down in Sumer, translated and modified later in Babylon, and reworked by the Assyrians before they were used by the Hebrew scribes for the versions which appear in the Bible.
Enuma Elish - The Babylonian Epic of Creation - Full Text
