Genesis

Ok, nothing new and exciting today. Just couldn't find anything, so for the first time in.. quite a long time, I shall just talk. What about? Well, the bible.

Greed, lust, envy, wrath,

CONTROVERTIAL DISCUSSION ALERT. THIS IS A THEOLOGICAL DISCUSSION AND NO RESPONSIBILITIES WILL BE TAKEN FOR ANY OFFENSES TAKEN.

STOP IF YOU ARE A FUNDAMENTALIST, ARE CLOSED MINDED, OR REFUSE TO TAKE A SINGLE WORD OF SCIENTISTS AND RENOWNED HISTORIANS SERIOUSLY.

"I will not take any action or take offense at anything written in this article. I understand that this is an article purely meant for discussion and is not intended for evangelizing of any sort, and is of the personal opinion of The Thinker. By reading further, I accept the above mentioned terms and conditions"

For the group of you open-minded enough to wonder at my paranoia, well, people can get screwed for just about anything.

So, now that I've made my stance clear, let's start at the beginning.

"At the beginning, there was nothing." And through a series of events, God called the world as we know it into being. The 7 day creation indicates everything was created in perfection. The 7^th day rest indicates a complete rest. This is the ideology put forth when the book of genesis was written. A world of perfection created by a perfect being, tainted by Man, and becoming less perfect over time. Why do I say it's an ideology put forth? As much as we like to think, the bible is a book of values. It is a book that describes to us the mindsets of the people at the time they were writing these. The first story of creation tells us about how the world was made in perfection, and that we humanity were made in that image: perfection. As beings of intellect, we were given the authority by God to lord over the animals and plants. As beings of God's image, we raise ourselves above the stigma of beast, and start on the road of divinity. Of course how true is that, we only have to open our eyes and we can see how we are no better than beasts. How did they justify that? The original Sin. The second story of creation, which contains details that directly contradict the first, obviously, (I mean the second story says that we were created before all animals and plants, a story to say that the world was made for us, while the first had us made last, with the first 5 days made in preparation.) places the centre of the story in a small area of the world: paradise. Adam was made first, and then, the rest of the plants and animals made as Man's companions. Adam gets a girlfriend, calls her woman, which means, from man. Lets divert from here slightly to take a look at this point. Women is part of man, and is from man, therefore, is below the status of man. I will point out more later that implies such. As we can see, man ego. The attempt by the people to justify sexism: man's source is divinity, women's source is earthly. Moving on, being perfectly pure, we bear no shame, and thus, are not afraid of nudity. Here, we see how the people of that time viewing nudity as a sign of divinity. Why do you think the images of gods in ancient rome and Greece are naked? Then, comes the first crux. Man is given a choice. Immortality versus the judgment of morality. Both bearing signs of divinity, but only one was granted by God. The personification of evil, the desire by man to blame an external source for their sins: Satan, in the form of a serpent. By distancing evil from man, we receive hope that we are, by nature, divine. The next evidence of sexism: Eve is the one who succumbs to evil and chooses moral judgment, with the hope of reaching godliness. She tempts Adam, and so, they both commit the original sin. Please note that there is no place in the bible that mentions "apple" as the fruit. In latin, malus, or apple sounds like malum, or evil. Moving back, the first sin: greed. In doing so, they gain insight in morality and suddenly see each other as naked. They sew leaves together to hide their bodies, losing what's left of divinity and purity. The second sin: lust. Disappointed, God drives humanity out of paradise. As punishment, man lives by the sweat of his brow, woman screams in pain during birth.

The two stories of creation are now widely known to have origins from the Babylonian creation texts, all of which are polytheistic.

hmm I sense I'm losing my audience… I think I'll go for part 2 another day.. in the next run, I'll continue on with Cain and Abel.