Actually, I have read the "Bible", cover to cover, more than a few times. Each time, I read it with new lenses in place. Genesis, appropriately, begins with the creation theory. In the beginning, God created, he liked what he had done, he gave Adam power over all he surveyed to name the beasts of the field, to enslave them, to slay them, to eat them. He made Adam a wife, Eve, and they had two sons. Eve talked Adam into having a little fruit snack which got them pitched out of the best place in the world. Then, some chick from the Land of Nod came out of nowhere. One brother killed the other, which was a no-no. Sons of God came down, found the daughters of man sexy and mated with them. God found the offspring of that mating, the Titans, loathsome, and the world wicked so he drowned it. Killed everything but what Noah in his boat of shittam wood could save. God felt bad about that afterwards. He made a pact with human kind that he would never drown the world again. The symbol of that pact is the rainbow. Of course, other horrors have and will beset us, but we won't be drowned again. Of course, I take into account that this is text "inspired by god", not necessarily the absolute truth, and akin it to the story about the blind men and the elephant.
