Ever since I was a boy, I was
fascinated with the mysteries of our origins. I was craving knowledge
about where we were coming from, as if finding out our origins were to
give me some clues about who I was, where I was heading and what was to
become of me.
My first reaction to fill this
hunger was that I asked my parents and relatives to buy me books about
the origins of man, and I eagerly devoured the information I found in
books giving me the theory of Evolution as a guidepost for who or what
I was, and where I was supposedly going.
According to Evolution, that
was, actually and precisely, nowhere, since that's also where we had
come from. The mother of each of our destinies was called Coincidence,
for she had created us all by Her random will and whim, and our future
was just as obscure as the darkness and premordial soup from which we
had all come.
Religion, at that time, was a
taboo to me, because I had been utterly disgusted by the sample of
"Christianity" I had received at our local church, which had
successfully converted me to atheism at the young age of 9 or 10. If
"God" was anything like they portrayed Him there, who would want to
have anything to do with Him?
Luckily for me, the Almighty
didn't hold the same grudge toward Me that I had with Him, and so, in
His mercy, He allowed me to come across people a few years later who
indeed displayed the quality, the missing essence that I was really
looking for, which identifies each true Christian, according to Jesus'
own words, "By this will all men know that you are My disciples, if you
have love for one another."
In time, my newfound faith also
provided me with a clearer picture of our origins, although that was a
very different one than the one I had previously adopted, and since I
found it hard to imagine that I should have been lied to such an
extent, it was tough for me to completely dismiss the notion of the
"millions of years" that had been drilled into my head, which
supposedly lay between now and our origins, and trade them for the 6000
years of world history we are supposed to have experienced according to
the Bible.
Only when I came across books
by Creationists who dealt with the subject of Evolution on a scientific
level, was I able to clearly see the awful truth: that what most people
believe about our origins is actually nothing more than an intricately
fabricated lie. I felt a bit like Neo in the movie "Matrix," when he
first was told that the "Matrix" - what he had formerly known as
reality, was nothing more than a carefully concocted illusion, a
computer program fed into people's minds.
The conscience of Coincidence
is what frames most people's minds in the west, alienating us from God
and the sense of purpose for our lives, and we indeed live in a mental
"Matrix," a "prison for our minds." But once we follow the true history
of our origins as laid out in the Bible, we discover why that is so,
and we also discover that this was precisely why Jesus had to come to
free us and "unplug" us from the Matrix.
For the Big Lie had been around
for a lot longer than Charles Darwin. We have to go all the way back to
the beginning, to the first chapter of the only reliable history book I
would recommend to my children or anyone sincerely interested in the
truth. We have to go back to the experiences of our original ancestors,
who were, thanks to God, not a pair of evolved ape men, but probably
the 2 most perfect human beings ever created in the exact image of God.
And voilá, we've already landed
at the very first thing we can learn from the history of Adam and Eve:
that God is both, male and female. No, not the way you would perhaps
picture it now, that perhaps He might be equipped with a double set of
sexual organs. That's not what we look like, either, is it? No, what we
can learn from Adam and Eve, and God having created them in His image,
means, there is God, the Male, and God the Female: God the Father, and
we know He also has a Son, and then, what most people don't know, is
that the 3rd Person of the Holy Trinity, the Holy Ghost, would not have
to be a third masculine Party at all (defying all reason, and all we
have learned from nature, about God's, Nature), but that She, the Holy
Spirit of God, is most likely to be the motherly part of the Trinity,
not another "Uncle." Thus enabling us to understand how God made them
in His image male and female.
Not only can we assume that
Adam and Eve were the most perfect humans ever made, but they also
lived in the most perfect environment ever know to man, a Garden so
heavenly that we refer t it as paradise, and we imagine that Heaven is
going to be a lot like it.
Adam's first job was to name
all the animals, of which there were probably a few more kinds around
than we know nowadays. But apparently, there was no rush. The next
thing we can learn from Adam is, that apparently it is part of God's
plan that every creature has a name.
In fact, even before man
created, we find God simply creating our universe by saying the words:
"Let there be light," and there was light. Apparently there is great
power in calling and naming things what they are, and I assume that one
of the Devil's main tactics has been to reverse that game, to strip us
of that power that lies in naming and calling things what they actually
are by twisting them around and giving us a lie, a fake for them
instead.
Instead of a man, a descendant
of the one God created in His own image, I have become a monkey, an
animal. Not anymore lord over creation, but simply one of the mammals,
destined for extinction.
When Jesus came, He told things
again the way they were, and thanks to Him, we can discern truth from
lies. If we cling to His Words, instead of the lies we're being fed
from His Enemy, then we'll know the truth, and the truth will make us
free (John 8:31,32).
Lesson number three we learn
from Adam and Eve is destroying the myth and the lie that sex and sin
are in any way originally related, since we find the shocking truth
right there in the 28th verse of the very first chapter of the very
first book of the Bible, that the first commandment He ever gave to
man, at least in order of appearance in His Book, is, "Be fruitful and
multiply!"
In other words, "make love!"
Oh, and by the way, "they were both naked, and they were not ashamed" (2:25).
In Genesis chapter 2, the
author zooms back in on the details of the creation of man, and we find
that there was actually a time span during which Adam was alone, the
period during which he named the animals, and he apparently realized
that something was missing. He must have noticed that there were 2 of
every kind of animal, a make and a female, yet he didn't see another
one like him around anywhere.
I can imagine it must have been quite a pleasant surprise to wake up next to the most perfect female human being ever created.
The next lesson we can learn
from Adam and Eve, is, of course, the sad one that no matter how
perfect things are, chances are that we won't appreciate what we've
got, unless our hearts have learned to appreciate them. Sin hadn't
officially entered the world until they actually disobeyed God and
broke His commandment not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, but it was already making its way into their hearts. How do
we know that there is something better than what we've already got?
What is it that causes us to be dissatisfied with what we have, makes
us despise it, and makes us crave that new thing that we don't have yet?
Our modern word for it is
advertising. And the Devil was apparently the first one to avail
himself of this weapon against the human heart and mind.
The only thing Adam and Eve
apparently did not have, since they were human, was divinity, and so,
that's what the Devil used in order to make them discontent with the
perfect way things were: he told them there was something missing. He
first of all reversed the truth of God by the lie that they were not
going to die if they ate of the forbidden fruit. Unfortunately, there's
nearly always a little bit of truth in the Devil's lies: technically
speaking, they didn't really die physically on the very same day they
did eat of the forbidden fruit.
In chapter 2:17 God explicitly
warns Adam that he would die on the same day on which he would eat of
that fruit. What happened? Did God lie after all, or change his mind?
Was the Devil right? Or could it be that God sees things slightly
different than we do, even concerning things like life and death?
According to our view, a person
is dead when their hearts stops beating, their lungs stop breathing and
their cerebral activity has stopped. When is a person dead according to
God's view?
