Quote from oddiduro:
That is what is so peculiar. We are his greatest creation, but he puts a tree in a garden, knowing what would happen, so he can throw his greatest creation out of it, and drown most of it later on.
Where are the faithful on this subject, I have an open mind
Open mind, eh?
Here goes.
The genesis of Hebrew lore is a confusing mishmash of propaganda coming from the collective subconscious. Someone wrote it down. Many believe it, though it is very confusing, because it comes from the collective subconscious. Many can *relate* to it, because many are confused. The collective subconscious itself is confused.
The fact is, the world begins in confusion. That should be clear from Hebrew lore. Which is why the house of Israel is "lost". The essential ingredients relative to the confusion are there in the story:
Creation
Sleep
Separation
Differences
Temptation
Knowledge of Life vs. "knowledge" of life
and death.
Knowledge of GooD vs. "knowledge" of good
and evil.
Choices
Agreement
Deception
Tricks
Set-ups
Guilt
Hiding
Concealment
Blame
Loss
Multiplication
These themes comprise the genesis of "the world" of
time [think: "in the beginning"...of time].
Hebrew genesis lore, however, utterly mixes up the order of cause and effect.
The order is mixed up because the genesis of the world is the reversing of cause and effect.
So,
Biblical genesis functions more like propoganda for the world's greatest conspiracy theory.
It functions like a false flag.
It serves to decieve, from the very first sentence.
Thus, by the time one get's to the snake dialogue, the reader has already swallowed deception.
The snake dialogue begins with the very first sentence:
"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth".
This is the big lie.
Whoever "created" the heavens and the earth feels guilty for it, and is looking to blame, cover, conceal, hide.
Man is made to blame.
Man is the "fall guy".
But as the finger points, three point back at the maker(s).
As man is blamed, man blames.
In this way, man is made in the image of his maker.
But as I have said, the genesis of the world is the reversing of cause and effect. It seems that the maker makes man. But the truth is more like: Man makes the maker. Closer to the truth is: Mind makes a maker to re-make itself according to a self-concept. In this way, mind reverses cause and effect by decieving itself into thinking it is made by what it made. Such is the plight of man. Man feels guilty not because he is complicit in the making of what is really just hell.
Man believes he is made by a gOd or by "nature" [ie. dirt, slime, spontaneous combustion...whatever]. But in fact, man is man-made...so-to-speak. Man is made by his own mind. The mind is not man. But flesh is actually a mind-trick...mind...toying with its power. In this case, it is power toying with powerlessness...thus reversing cause and effect. This is utterly self-deceptive.
It may sound strange, but when you have as much power as the Son of God, this is considered f.u.n. [think: unconscious fun, mind asleep]. Big toys for big boys, so-to-speak. Why did Houdini wrap himself with chains and lock himself in dark boxes underwater? No one really knows.
And so goes the genesis of the world. The world is a dark box in which is wrapped the Son of God, whose mind is chained down to false beliefs about himself, ignorant to his power. And just as he is about to succumb to ogygen depletion, he escapes, having found the power he always had.
Sound like fun? Ever heard the phrase, "hell, I'll try anything once?" That is an ancient echo from the past. It's an attitude, not exactly sane, but hey, you only live forever, right? So why not die once. This requires a major, MAJOR, self deception campaign. And that is all the world really is: the world's greatest conspiracy theory.
Inside every man is locked and chained up the Son of God, waiting for release. Each man has the power to release him, but for millenia of self depreciating programming. Man is the picture of low self esteem. The gospel is for awakening "the giant within".
And, Oh what a Giant!
Christ!