Being raised in a Christian family, the story of the beginning of time that I grew up with was the story of creation, as told in the book of Genesis. I believe the church has a very narrow translation of this book of the bible and I would like to look at it a bit differently. So, to give it a different perspective, I am going to refer to God as Fred.
Fred built the heavens and earth... let's focus on the earth part. Then Fred saw he needed a caretaker and created Adam. This begs me to ask... created him from WHAT?
Okay, moving on, Adam was lonely, so he created Eve, but not the same way he created Adam... this time he took a part of Adam... a rib, looks kinda like a column, maybe a DNA column, that contains ALL information. He rearranged the substance, just a bit, to make a female version. This was “good”.
Fred didn't want his creations to be too smart, so he told them to stay away from those “trees” that would give eternal life and too much knowledge. Why did he put those in the garden of Eden anyway? That doesn't make any sense.
The garden has gates, and things inside the garden operate differently than those outside, kinda like a biosphere. Eve and Adam are not to question anything... they are to serve, without question. This is what you expect from a slave, taking care of your biosphere.
Interestingly enough, other beings exist besides Fred. The story doesn't say he created any of the other beings, in fact, there are other gods in the vacinity... we will get to that in a minute.
Someone didn't like that Adam and Eve were kept as slaves, so they sneaked into the garden to give Adam and Eve “knowledge”. Fred is angry about this, now his slaves are questioning him and he kicks them out of the biosphere, opps, I mean the garden. He also curses the one who helped them. This sneaky one may been more of a friend to Adam and Eve then we realize. In fact, the way the sneaky one was vilified, makes me wonder if it was a woman. Freeing slaves sounds like something a woman would do. It might also explain why the bible seems to be so anti-woman.
Adam and Eve continued life and had kids. One of the eldest boys, Cain, kills his brother, Abel. Then Cain goes to the land of Nod, where there are already “lots” of other people. He marries a woman and builds a whole city. There is no mention as to how many other people were there, however, the story goes on to say how the daughters of men... these are the descendants of Adam and Eve's children, begin marrying the sons of gods.... yup, that's what it says. If you keep reading, you will see there are giants and other beings on earth too.
Okay, so if Adam was Fred's first creation of man, than maybe the other gods were responsible for the land of Nod and the giants that were already on earth. In fact, if a race of beings understood DNA, gene slicing, and a few other things just a little better than we do now, they would be seen as creators, as gods to all around them who did not know so much.
I wonder if the beginning of time actually refers to the beginning of the human as we know it... maybe humans were different before the biosphere experiment. Also, I wonder if, after kicking Adam and Eve out, Fred made new slaves to care for the garden, remember, it needs caretakers. Maybe Fred also removed those pesky trees.
I have been referencing only a small portion of Genesis; summarized and viewed from a different perspective. I don't mean any disrespect to Fred, just using my questioning ability, some of my knowledge, which according to the Christian church is still not allowed if it questions Fred, opps, I mean God.
Just think, not too long ago in our history, we thought Kings had royal blood... “blue bloods”. This blood made them different from the common man. Who believes that now? We also thought that the earth was flat... and the sun revolved around the earth. To disagree with this or even question it, was heresy, witchcraft and it was a life sentence, often with a very cruel death.
I think those Christians owe those witchcraft people a really BIG apology. Throughout our history, we have claimed witchcraft when we get scared of the unknown. It turns out they were right about alot of things. If the people who are right are the only ones allowed to live, then the Christians should have all been killed and the "witchcraft" people should have lived. Wonder what kind of world we would live in now?
Or we could try living in harmony. I am grateful to live in a country, during a century, where I am "allowed" to believe what I choose without being burned at the stack.
Or we could try living in harmony. I am grateful to live in a country, during a century, where I am "allowed" to believe what I choose without being burned at the stack.
Who is to say, that my version of Genisis is right or wrong... who was here? Who really knows? It is just an idea of another possibility. Who knows, maybe the Native American stories are correct and earth was born on the back of mother turtle. None of us “really” know, we only believe what we choose to believe.
