Bragging rights? There's always an excuse when it comes to pointing out imperfections, eh?

@Seeker3CO and no mention of parasites, bacteria, virus, or cancers at all.

@Davesnothere Right?! What kind of fuct up God would make viruses?

"Our" may be intended to be used as king and queens refer to themselves in the third person, "we"...an example being, "We should like to eat breakfast now."

@dahermit Yes, and that IS the usual and expected response from ever so many Apologists as well as quite a few Atheists/Agnostics. etc, to whom I have also posed that self-same question.
But, and here comes the cruncher, when asked WHY this self-proclaimed " One and ONLY True God and Creator insists upon referring to itself as Us or We, the plural form btw, when, being as Omniscient as it is, it would know full well that ONLY IT exists in the place?"
And that is pretty much about the time when ALL of the Umms, Errs, Arrrs, etc, begin to pour out of the mouths of the Faithfools as if they were a stream in flood.
And when I speak to the Faithfools of the Ancient Egyptian Creation story where, Khnum ( later knowns as Amun) the Creator, said unto himself, " And I (note the use of the SINGULAR) SHALL cause the land, Kheb in ancient Egyptian btw meaning the land of Egypt, to rise from the Primordial waters and from Kheb I shall take hands full of clay and upon my pottery wheel I shall make all things living, trees, plants, animals and peoples of ALL colors and creeds," so WHY would ONE Creator refer to itself in the singular when your version elects for the plural?
And again comes forth the same flood of Umms, Arrrs, etc, AND the rare but sometimes occasional " But our Creator is different to theirs."

@Seeker3CO Cattle in the King James at least may just mean quadropeds in general, just being an old usage. And I think that at one point even women are listed as cattle.

@Fernapple I think what you are referring to is "chattel" (a possession), not "cattle (bovines)".

@dahermit Could be. LOL

@dahermit Exactly, how is there any we when the only thing in existence is a MONOTHEISTIC God?

Powerful word, OUR. Yet thou shalt worship no other gods but me?

@Davesnothere What about the purpose of the mosquito?

@IAJO163 Gotta Love Genesis, creation and destruction in 6 chapters

IF the ark story were true, then Noah's Family were the most pest ridden humans of all time!
They HAD to carry, flesh eating bacteria, scabies, crabs, intestinal worms, tapeworms, pinworms, lice and Bot fly larva, just to name a few.
As well as all the diseases which ONLY reside in humans, smallpox, typhoid, malaria, Diphtheria, TB and a host of others.

IF that tale were true, you could not fit the INSECTS alone. There are over 35,000 species of spider known, and an estimated 35,000 or more as yet undiscovered.

Not to mention little issues like elephants tipping the boat, the unsoundness of a wooden vessel of such size, ignoring the fact that other nations on the earth took no notice of the flood at all, or that there is just not enough water, or the reality that other people HAD boats already, and in a years time would have assaulted such an ark for the wealth of food it contained.

THEN as the final kicker, it would be the ultimate genetic bottleneck, reducing our DNA finger\print to the results of ONE family, making us ALL siblings by DNA. This would result in all sorts of birth defects and inbreeding within a generation.

It not only takes faith to believe this, it requires turning off your brain as well.

@Davesnothere Evidently you did not see (or understand) my post about how kings and queens traditional have used "we" to refer to themselves. Example: "We need to use the bathroom.", whereas we would say, "I have to use the bathroom."

@dahermit I did, but we are not talking about Middle ages linguistics (although it might be translative depending on edition.)
Even in such a case there was a "We" (The royal authorities.)

Such language was also part and parcel of having servents for everything, so you did very little alone, but as we repleat with servants to wipe your ass.

It is even more apparent when the old Testament makes reference to "other Gods", and the understanding that Judaism evolved from prior Semetic Polytheist religions.

Asherah is identified as the queen consort of the Sumerian god Anu, and Ugaritic ʾEl, the oldest deities of their respective pantheons,as well as Yahweh, the god of Israel and Judah. This role gave her a similarly high rank in the Ugaritic pantheon. Despite her association with Yahweh in extra-biblical sources, Deuteronomy 12 has Yahweh commanding the destruction of her shrines so as to maintain purity of his worship

In creating Earth he left 8 other discovered failures? Why leave the rest uninhabited?

@IAJO163 Yeah, and don't forget about ALL of those other planets and stars in the Universe as well.
Why even bother making all of those when you 'Eternal' Big Plan is to put ALL your eggs in one tiny basket and then things kind of go a bit astray, flush everything down the toilet EXCEPT 8 humans and a wooden boat load of animals, etc.?
Wow, I wouldn't trust this god thingy with drawing up plans anything, even something as simple as changing a light bulb.

He was white too, right?

@IAJO163 - Well, I doubt people who were black, brown, red, purple, or green would project a white God unless their culture idealized the color white for some reason, or unless the white God was imposed upon their culture from one outside it. I would imagine the white Christian God was adapted to fit the white Europeans cultures from a darker shaded Middle Eastern like version conceived first by those peoples who invented them.

A Christmas hymm we sang in our high school choir for our Christmas program said that the children in different parts of the world saw the face of the baby Jesus like their own but eith heavenly grace. I would surmise that this concept didn't apply to children only.

@RussRAB Yeah, " Jesus loves the little children...………. etc, etc," so MUCH that he lets HIS Priests molest them and they spend their lives living with the horrible memories and torments of it all.
Hey, IF that is the 'LOVE of Jeebus' then I'm bloody PROUD to be an Atheist.

So god is a "Hood Rat?" LOL!!!

Nope, not in any way BUT it IS about as logical as trying to scratch your arse with just your elbow....LOL.

@Triphid We'd have to be made in another image to be able to do that.

Why was there a tree of Good and Evil? What was THAT plan about?

@IAJO163 it's in the bible, so it must be true. Also there was a Tree of Life that would have allowed us to live forever.

@ScubaWags This was my attempt at drawing some humor from it. Sorry it appeared so literal.

This

So flawed.

@IAJO163
Yes the bible is flawed. All holy texts are flawed.

I think you’re right. the formless void in the Bible was describing the earth in genesis before the land was brought up to separate the water. Not to say that that makes much more sense but the problems are geological more than with image.

You should read the Bible more. Moses himself declares that god has no form.

@charliemmann
have you read genesis? Didn't the bible say god made us in it's image?