The Catch 22 of Adam and Eve.
The concept
behind humanity’s fall from grace is firmly planted on the shoulders of these
two icons. But their very nature allows
for a huge and impossible conundrum.
Adam, created by Yahweh from the very dusts of the earth was
sinless. Later, Eve, created from the
rib of Adam, joined him in their bliss of sinless existence. At some point it is said that they ate of the
tree of knowledge of Good and Evil, thus allowing them to realize their own existence
and as well, their sinful nature.
The problem
begins, not with Adam and Eve, but with Yahweh’s intention. Yahweh created a creature that was free of
sin and then informed the creature of ground rules it must follow. What god must not have realized is that Adam
was knowledge-less and because he lacked any form of knowledge, he was unable
to distinguish between gods command and his own existence. He had no base of understanding to fall back
on. He was without any concept of what
it was god expected of him. A very
modern example of this would be to examine cat owners around the world. If we call a cat Adam and it’s owner, Yahweh,
one will see the basic existence god had created for the garden. As we know cat’s are
very independent creatures. As we also
know they have no knowledge of our language and thus can not understand
it. Therefore one can make the
assumption that cats can not understand our basic moral premise,
we must conclude that cats have no morality, not because they lack them, but
because they are ignorant of them, thus, free of the sin of right and wrong. Knowing this allows for our owner to be sure to hide anything we would expect the cat to want. There is the key to the argument: want. The cat dictates its existence based on its
needs and it seems in some cases its wants, because remember, the cat is not
burdened with whether or not something is right, it can just be to its fullest
extent. But, if Yahweh owned this cat,
Adam, the assumption of cat being cat is lost somewhere and the cat is told to
be dog. Because the cat, Adam, is
instructed to follow a set of rules that it can not do, not because it doesn’t
want to, but because Yahweh did not give it the tools it required to understand
that it was to follow the rules. If
Yahweh were mere mortal and the cat failed to be a dog, then it’s good to
assume that the cat would end up on the street, homeless and helpless. But Yahweh is not mortal. Nor is he of any transitory linear existence. He knew that it was a cat…why then did he ask
it to be a dog?
Adam could
not have known what the consequences of eating the fruit would bring. He could not have known what it meant to be ‘bad’
or ‘wrong’ or ‘evil’. He could not have
known why it was important to follow the command of god. He could not have even begun to understand a
single solitary thing imposed by god.
No, he couldn’t have understood even this writing…at least not with out
the fruit. You see the catch 22? In order for Adam to understand the evil of
eating the fruit he needs to eat the fruit, but if he eats the fruit he
realizes that he shouldn’t eat the fruit.
Catch 22’s are hardly real in the natural universe, because, in nature
the motto is do or die. There is no
middle ground. So this paradox imposed
on Adam by god was artificially created by Yahweh. But why? Why would the creator confuse his creation
with impossible riddles? Or to put it
another way, why would Yahweh even create a tree of knowledge of good and evil
in a garden full of idiots who could eat of it and learn the secrets of his
creation? Would the
1. If Yahweh intentionally created the
tree and intentionally allowed us to eat it, then the concept of original sin
is false and therefore there is no need for redemption from god and no need for
some creature called Jesus to save us.
Because we never did anything wrong. The only other possibility is that
Yahweh is playing dice with the universe, pulling at our strings, making us
dance through hoops that he created and hung just for the fun of doing it. Also note that this tree is suppose to still
exist to this day and that no where else in the annuals of modern man have we
read about anything else ever eating of the fruit: no cats, no bats, no rats…nothing,
just humans. So it must have been
something distinctly human that we ‘wanted’ the fruit. Which only strengthens the argument
of it being intentional.
2. If it were made up, the there was no
tree of Knowledge, there was no fall from grace and we have no sin to atone
for. Therefore we don’t need some
creature called Jesus to save us. We are
all free of universal sin, and only have the unlucky perspective of regional
sin.
Either way,
Yesu Ben Mary is not required of us.
Therefore Jesus was not the savior.
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One of the
instruments of argumentation arising from the sheep goes something like this, “If
you’re right how come no one else ever thought of your argument?” An obvious attempt at
saying, “You’re an idiot!” Once I
get done plucking their teeth from my knuckles I explain to them two possible
solutions:
1. That they really are sheep and have
zero understanding of anything that does not fall into their laps by the hands
of the Sheep herder.
2. But more probably, none of my
questions are new and that those that had the strength to ask such questions
were in fact destroyed. Murdered, killed
as heretics and pagans. It doesn’t take
a genius to look in the direction of the middle east
and see this very ideology still at work, where women are killed for showing
their faces. Where religion is used to
wage war on people they disagree with.
The truth is religion is evil, not man.
Religion has driven them to destructions that even they can’t believe
they’ve done.