Problems With Genesis Part 2

Part One

21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father naked and told his two brothers outside
24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said,

“Cursed be Canaan!
The lowest of slaves
will he be to his brothers.”

So, Noah gets hammered, passes out naked...and puts a curse on Canaan because he walked in and saw Noah acting a fool?

5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

So again, God is caught off-guard and has to react to the evil things people are doing. But, let me pose an argument to this theory of different languages.

First of all, God knows there is no way the Tower of Babel could make it to Heaven. It's physically impossible, so why then did God not just let them build it, sit back, and have a laugh?

This is a story of mythology to explain the development of different languages.

Abraham is kind of terrible

Abraham, unable to have kids with his wife Sarah, takes his wife's slave, Hagar. Hagar has a child with Abraham named Ishmael. Abraham, who is 86-years-old when Hagar gives birth, is told by a now jealous Sarah that he must send Hagar and Ishmael away.

After forcing a slave to have sex with an 86-year-old, give birth to his son...he orders them to go away. And Sarah's choice of words make it even worse.

10 and she said to Abraham, “Get rid of that slave woman and her son, for that woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.”

God, of course, rewards Abraham and Sarah by allowing Abraham to have a child with Sarah at the age of 100.

We all know the story of how Abraham was then asked by God to kill his only son, but right before Abraham went through with it, an angel appeared and told him that God was just joking.

25 Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah. 2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah.

After Sarah dies at the ripe-old-age of 120, Abraham takes another wife and had six more children.

To sum up the rest of Genesis: Joseph plays a game with his brothers. A game of handing out punishments and allowing redemption for their wrongdoings, and God plays the same game with the whole of humanity throughout Genesis. God continues to create a realm of opposing forces, symbols, and reversals to suggest a pattern of how and through whom his covenant will be revealed.