Genesis: The Rewritten Story
Will Your Idle Talk Reduce Men To Silence? (Job 11:3)
Reconstructing the fairytale for adults who fear the unknown
In the beginning, the Earth was formless and empty, with a blanket of darkness covering its surface until God* said, ‘Let there be light…’
And there was light.
*(God = the first physical presence in the ever-present spiritual realm, and the creator of heaven and earth).
When he passes me, I cannot see him; when he goes by, I cannot perceive him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
God saw that the light was good, so he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light ‘day’ and the darkness he called ‘night.’
And God separated the water from under the expanse from the water above it. God called the expanse ‘sky’, and God said, ‘Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let the dry ground appear.’
And it was so.
God called the dry ground ‘land’, and the gathered waters he called ‘seas.’ And God saw that it was good.
And it was so.
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Then God said, ‘let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let him rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’
Genesis 9:3: ‘Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as God gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.’
And there came the downfall of humanity, over before it had even started…
Colossians 1:15: ‘He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.’
God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.
I am the alpha and the omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.
Except man didn’t arise the from the dust of the ground but from the matter of the universe… From stardust…
The Bible is all but a metaphor for our existence that has been simplified into human terms, and turned into a fairytale…
Genesis 15:5: ‘Look up at the heavens and count the stars, if indeed you can count them. The sun and moon and stars were bowing down to me.’
A fairytale that at once uses false promises, ‘he is good; his love endures forever’, and fear, ‘eat the forbidden fruit and you will become more ego (human), and less soul (spirit)’, to force people to conform…
Eating from the Tree of Knowledge is a metaphor for our transition out of a state of pure consciousness, (the state we were in before we were born into this world and the state that we will return to one day when our soul leaves our body), into consciousness.
I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land.
Trying to comprehend the incomprehensible, is this a metaphor for reincarnation, the process of being reborn until we become enlightened and reach nirvana, a concept that can be found within the oldest (and most plausible) religion, Hinduism?
Alas, what is the bible if not just an adaptation of Hindu scripture?…
The concept of reincarnation has merely been adapted in the bible to replace the traditional spiritual language found in the Vedas with a language better understood by humans…
Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘you must not eat of it’, cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil, you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. Since from it, you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.
Why does the bible revert to fearmongering to scare people into submission?
Leviticus 18:22: ‘Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.’
Leviticus 19:27: ‘Do not cut the hair at the side of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.’
‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of knowledge…’
Can’t you see that it’s all about control?
‘Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years, but I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward, they will come out with great possessions.’
‘… Here comes the dreamer…’
Genesis 19:9: ‘I have now seen the one who sees me. This fellow came here as an alien, and now he wants to play the judge!’
Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead.
Sin is crouching at your door (and the sin is religion)… It desires to have you, but you must master it.
Don’t allow yourself to become just another restless wanderer of the earth.
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