Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Open Post(late)

There is a question in my mind that keeps arising everytime I read one of the orignal stories of creation, and the stories of the flood. What I find myself wondering is whether or not God knew he was going to eventually have to start over with the "creation of man project" he had going on way back then. There are many accounts in all the different stories we've read to date where the God portrayed by the stories authors, is all knowing, and all powerful. Now one would assume that if this were indeed the case, that perhaps the first attempt at creating Man, was sort of a trial, and if I may be so bold, an error at first. God created all that is life in this world, including man, despite Man's ability to have original thought, and original sin.

In my opinion, it is completly logical to assume that perhaps God just wanted to see how long it would take man to abuse the privledge of life. If this claim I have made is indeed anywhere close to accurate then what does this say about the God portrayed in these stories of Creation, The Great Flood, and even the stories of Cain and Abel? If God knew all these events were eventaully going to take place, much like a domino effect, then why go through the trouble of creating Man in the first place, if we were purposfully set up for failure? We are assumed to be imperfect beings, and by all accounts we absolutly are.

However, with all assumptions set aside I think these stories absolutly display contradictiory opinions, ideas, and stories. As one may already assume, I believe that these contradictions are actually the imperfect, and human interpretation of the Divine. It is safe to assume that whoever originally wrote these stories, had only one intention in mind, and that being to use the idea of God as a scare tactic to keep us from sinning. It is almost as if they're saying, "dont sin or else you'll realize your naked, you'll be wiped out by a flood, or God will ask you to kill your favorite son...ect". It seems to me that this God is displaying human emotions such as jealousy, anger, benevolance...ect. Which in turn leads me to again assume that this error in the portrayal of God is indeed a human error, and not an error on the Divines part. I could go on for days about this idea, however I have more posts to attend to, so I'll leave my readers this food for thought.

Good Day to you all.

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