God's Original Sin - Updated

If it can be said that all men are guilty of Original Sin, then it can also be said that God is guilty of an Original Sin of His own.

Before the Creation, there was only God and God was perfect. By introducing something that wasn't God (even though it was His creation), He introduced the imperfect into being. In effect, one could say God created the stage for the introduction of sin. Before the Creation, there was no sin. Afterward, sin came into being. And this was God's doing since, as I said, before the Creation there was only God and therefore there was only perfection. Why deviate from that?

As for Eve being tempted by the forbidden fruit - please. If God really didn't want that fruit to be eaten, He would have either not placed it so tempting close to Eve or He would have had it under guard 24/7. In effect, God wanted Eve (and/or Adam) to eat that fruit - that was His will.

As for "How did you know you were naked?"... Revulsion to nudity being considered "knowledge" had a lot more to do with the personal hangups of Moses than with anything God had predetermined was the product of "knowledge." Tradition has it that Moses had written the first five books of the Old Testament. That view has its detractors, with them citing other sources. Be that as it may - whether Moses or others as authors - no one is saying "God wrote it as surely as His script defined the Ten Commandments." And, frankly, I don't care what men happened to have thought God had in mind.

It has been claimed that faith in Jesus Christ can overcome Original Sin. But tell me this: Who can God turn to in order to atone for His Original Sin?

As for God creating in phases over a period of six days and exclaiming, “It is good,” I would have to ask, “Compared to what?”


Personal Story:

For years, after taking a nice hot shower, I would exclaim to myself, "Wow, that John the Baptist feller was really on to something with this water fetish of his." But fetishes are not reality, much like claims that wine is the blood of Christ and a wafer is His body. Or, for that matter, chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo once is equal to chanting the entire Lotus Sutra once. I know rituals have a place, but stupid claims don't. If one wants to get closer to God (or whatever higher power he seeks), it would be best to abandon stupid claims and to stop following the men who espouse them.

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Steven Searle, just another member of the
Virtual Samgha of the Lotus and
former candidate for US President (in 2008 & 2012)

Contact me at bpa_cinc@yahoo.com