Begin Again

Begin Again

            I can’t believe, and believe me I’ve tried hard, I just cannot accept the Adam, Eve, Eden, the talking, lying, and evil thing (turned into a serpent) and the punishment that God inflicted on humanity. Not just Adam and Eve, the ones that committed the sins, but on everyone who came after them. What kind of justice is it that demands payment from the children for the crimes of the great, great, great etc. grandparents? I cannot accept this story as the factual account of the way God started the world. Do you want to know why? I made a thoughtful in depth reading of Genesis.

            God is Spirit! God: Spirit fills all time and all space. Doesn’t it follow that God used the substance at hand to create His world? When He wanted children He prepared the world to receive them. He envisioned the world that He wanted and His thoughts flowed into the mold that He conceived. There was light before the sun, moon or stars were hung. The plants, flowers, trees were completed before they went into the ground; before the rain fell; before there was a man to till the soil. The animals were created for their beauty and grace, not for meat as our food. All creation was supplied with nourishment without depending on taking the life of another. When all was ready God created man. Man: in God’s own image and likeness: Spiritual.

            I can’t understand why God would find it necessary to recreate man. If He did, why not use gold dust or moon beams or sunshine? Why use dust or dirt from the ground for the children He loves, protects, and made the best for their use and ours? Was Eve an afterthought?  When Adam didn’t find any of the animals pleasing as a mate, God took a rib from Adam to create Eve: the second time.

            With all of the time and effort God put into creating a beautiful, safe and happy world for His children, how can you accuse Him of forgetting that Adam might want company? When the idea did occur to Him, why offer animals for consideration? And why change the method of creating from dirt to rib? Where Adam and Eve both sprang full grown; the unchanging God made yet another change. Humans are born from woman; tiny, traumatized and helpless. I accept Eden as an allegory full of hidden meanings, but not as factual. Not when Genesis 1:1 records the beginning so beautifully.

            You will notice there is no evil in any form created in chapter one. God surveyed everything daily and found it all good. Very Good! So how did evil sneak into the garden and our world?  You have asked a hard question that I can not answer, but I will tell you what I think.

            We read, in the allegory, that evil infiltrated Eden and God cursed His naughty children and also the evil. Therefore we assume we are born cursed and made to suffer. With this wrong information and our expectation of disaster and mistaken superstitious thoughts we have formed the things that we suffer from. We have used our fear, imagination, and belief in evil to see the evil we believe in. We believe there is an evil power opposed to and fighting with God. If God is fighting evil what protection do we have against it?

            The Father gave us free-will and we have misused our gift to make ourselves miserable and then we put the blame on God. In Reality what God did not create Does Not Exist! God is not struggling against evil because it is nonexistent. God, our Father is the One and Only Power in the universe. Once you realize this truth whatever form evil has taken in your life will dissolve like mist before the shinning sun. Jesus did not pray to ask permission or to affirm that the person asking for healing was worthy. Jesus healed scientifically. He saw through the thick layers of error (belief in lies and their false sense of reality) and brought the thought of the suffering person up to God’s Reality.

            Jesus didn’t find a disease that was too much for Him to heal. He knew, without doubt, that the Father is of purer eyes than to behold evil, therefore Jesus did not see a sick or sinning individual. He saw the spiritual man of God’s creating.

            Which chapter do you choose?  Chapter one, the Spiritual? Or chapter two the material, evil one? You cannot have them both.

            761 words     Loretta Ellen Edwards 

Reviews

[Vasilees Sybissyl]

Very well written. I loved to read the passage from a simple, practicing Christian's point of view. Your idea is very noble. But I have to ask, if there is no Evil, then what about the snake that told Eve to eat the fruit? Also, was eating a fruit really a mistake big enough for the whole human race to get punished for? I'm not trying to be offensive, I'm just curious as in my country, we don't really interact with many Christians.

Thanks for the answer,
Love,
Vasilees