Simple Points Worth Looking at, Again.
[voice from the other side - Sha'Tara]
The worst thing that an ISSA being can do is to refuse to reason and challenge his belief system. That is why all religions in particular must be despotic in nature. If they allowed their adherents to challenge them they would all topple overnight. Thus it seems to me that the greatest part of valor in this is to "believe all things, believe in nothing."
Re-reading of observational data and checking chronology was not a strong point of ancient writers. Definitely not of the Biblical writer of Genesis 2:4 ff. Take a look at this massive contradiction:
(My quotes taken from the New International Version of the Holy Scriptures - Zondervan)
"When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens -- and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground, but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground -- the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a living being.
Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. And the Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground -- trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."
And this goes on, helter skelter until the story takes on more believable characteristics as it blends eventually into "modern" human history in the Middle East area, namely Iraq of today.
The first and second chapters of the biblical Genesis reveal so much if we really wanted to know! Obviously, according to this part, man was not created, but "formed" which means cloned. Creation means that "spirit" manifests physically; that out of nothing physically understood comes the material/physical order of things. But man was an afterthought, cloned from basic existing DNA. (Dust of the ground was the best the writer could come up with to explain how this could be.)
But the contradiction is in the chronology: man was formed BEFORE there was any plant life on earth, yet he was the last "creative" act of "God" - there being already fish, birds and animals everywhere. What did they feed on while they waited for "man" to learn to till the ground and make it produce? While waiting for the rains? And yet we are told that all the ground is being watered from underground springs and that being the case, who cares if it rains? Water is water. If there be plants, they will grow. But meanwhile, while there is nothing growing on the earth -- no rain, no man -- the "Lord God" has planted for himself a garden in Eden. Now all he needs is for someone to take care of it, a handy man, a gardener -- a slave? The writer makes it clear that the earth would not produce anything until the "man" was formed to take care of it.
Talk about double-talk, or of having your cake and eating it too. While I'm at it, how about this:
"Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground (still forming from existing material) all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. [...] But for Adam no suitable helper was found."
That's a very interesting comment. Much later in scripture we find that the Lord God has strict laws against "bestiality" or sodomy as sex between animals and humans. Obviously that was a common enough practice that it bothered the Lord God. But look here who's responsible for this practice to start? The Lord God did not really want Adam to have a mate of his own species, so he brought the animals to Adam and as is clearly stated in ancient writings from which the Biblical account is culled (plagiarized) Adam was in the habit of having sexual relations with many of his animal friends. Before "the adam" (adamu or man) was re-cloned into "Adam" the wild animals had no fear of him. He was a vegetarian creature totally at home and at peace among all the wild animals. Endiku (See Zecharia Sitchin's Earth Chronicles for the details) was one of these wild men whom the "Lord God" using a prostitute to seduce him, was able to capture and bring into "Eden" for observation and experimentation.
In the days preceding the intervention of the Lord God and his Eden "paradise" there were no predators on earth. All creatures were herbivores, including man (of whom there were males, females and children) who at the time was a kind of natural "shepherd" for all the wild animals. No blood was shed on earth until the arrival of "the Lord God" and even long afterwards man continued to be a vegetarian, until after the flood. The first recorded act of bloodshed is NOT when Cain killed his brother Abel, but when the Lord God in a fit of anger slaughtered animals, ripped their skins off and forced Adam and Eve to cover themselves with them. [Genesis 3:21]
In part, this is the covenant "the Lord God" -- now with the interchangeable title of "Lord" or "God", makes with Noah: "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything." [Genesis 9:1-3]
An interesting twist here: does this not beg the question, 'Why' would God put dread and fear of man in all non-human life? Why would God "sell-out" creation to his favorite creature, the new Man and thus risk the destruction of earth life? How that was accomplished is already a massive question, but "why" becomes much more relevant when we look at today's world.
But as they say, the rest is history. Man was given everything to consume "as food" and that part of the covenant 'he' certainly heard well. It shall be "everything" until nothing is left. So be it. It's in man's blood to consume and in turn be consumed by his own divinely appointed and mandated destructive ways.
The only power that can overcome this covenant still in effect today and observable anywhere one goes on this world, is through the courage to challenge that nature; to turn against it and through self-empowerment, determine one's own destiny. As long as we cling to out-dated belief systems, even if such beliefs pretend to be "other than" the biblical ones, i.e., ancient Mayan teachings, or Buddhist or whatever, we will continue to trod the path of self-destruction and will continue to blame someone or something... else! God, Satan, religion, governments, man, woman, pagans, fate, time, aliens, technology, karma, money -- not becoming aware that these are but symptoms of a much deeper malaise. Conversely, there will be the billions who will look upon the same list and think of these as in some way capable of "redeeming" earth.
The problem of earth is simple: those who have the power to reason their condition (generic "man" or ISSA being) remain unwilling to shoulder individual responsibility for the global condition. Consequently as the number of "man" increases upon the earth the condition of earth correspondingly worsens.
(ISSA: intelligent, sentient and self-aware)
Love and peace, B&R
no, not the wise man of Jesus times (whenever they were}
I agree with your article Regis
It is said God inspired his disciples to write all the words
down in the Bible, but sometimes I wonder.
When I look at the stars I know and feel a supreme force.
I don't need a church to feel a supreme presence...
Taken Into Modern Day Account That What You Have Written It Gels-Huh!
TRASK
Aberjhani
~hugs~
Karen
LKove Tinka
Blessings,
Joyce Bowling
I believe I agreed with you Reg
This piece very well expresses
Great Job!!enjoyed the read
Love and Peace To you
Your friend...Morning Star
Larry
As a Christian, what consoles me is that I have yet to find anything in the bibilical teachings of Jesus that is not in harmony with my conscience.
Love and Peace my friend.
Sincerely,
Regino
To be in really connection with Him I advocate that we turn into ourselves, without any bogus paraphernalia, the simplicity of being able to put ourselves in his hands, to privately "talk" to Him, overruns any oversimplification from the "learned" ones that wish us "organized.
But that,,,is just me.
Thanks to guide us through the simple points.
Georg
Very good article, Regis. I am in agreement. Religion, religions of the world have nothing to do with faith or belief, but greedy man's vehicle to raise money to indoctrinate even more to the BS of "God said."
Elizabeth