God didnt create man
Man created god
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... I lost track around the 6th paragraph, but this is wat i got; HE (who I've usually titled as GOD, but thats not the point) Is All mighty, all knowing, and pure. Being an entity of such greatness, must do whats moraly correct, and to keep His own divinity to himself would be "wrong". The concept of the perfect vessel is pretty vauge for me. But the final paragraph helped me with the altogether message. "Do not do what you dislike to others," is what I comprehended.
From my stand point (taken a lot from the Abrahic religions), this is how I see it. God, being perfect and Holy, wanted to share his his divinity with others, so he created man (being incapable of making an equivalent being) and gave him his own kingdom of Earth to give him the gift of godhood. Eventualy man is flauded with sin and God punishes humanity by removing them from there seat of power (like a Parent would ground their child for doing wrong).
I'm not sure if it's right but that's what I can figure. Correct me if you think I'm wrong.
ThePeasant (Updated )
I think you got it almost right.
Problems:
- man was never given 'godhood', rather a minor form of rulership. That's really just a semantic point.
- The punishment is more complex than just being grounded, but G-d's punishment was meant primarily to teach us how to correct our own behaviour and not to do something bad to us because we did something bad. Parents should try to do the former with their kids as well - make a punishment appropriate to the crime which contains within it the method towards repentance.
So what was the punishment? First, understand what was the sin. And to understand what was the sin, first understand what was the situation.
The situation was, metaphorically, two naked people, a snake, a tree and a fruit. And, of course, The One Ultimate Existence. The One Ultimate Existence said 'don't eat the fruit! Or else you will die!' So one naked person said to the other 'don't touch the tree, or else you will die!' The snake was like 'man, that's not fair! The second naked person is so hot - why does the first naked person get her? So the snake went to the second naked person and pushed her into the tree and said 'you didn't die! see? And you know what? The fruit is awesome!' So the second naked person ate some fruit and gave some to the first naked person. Then The One Ultimate Existence asked the first naked person what happened and he said it was the second naked person's fault. He asked the second naked person and she said it was the snake's fault. Then all of them got punished. That was the situation.
So where was the sin? The first naked person sinned when he told the second naked person that The One Ultimate Existence told them not to touch the tree. This means one aspect of the original sin was clouding the truth. The second naked person sinned when she listened to the snake's temptation and not the first naked person. So another aspect of the original sin was giving in to temptation. The snake sinned when he tricked the second naked person into doing bad things. So a third aspect of the original sin is purposeful deception motivated by jealousy. Then, at the end, both the naked people refused to take the blame. So a fourth aspect of the original sin was tattling on others and speaking poorly about them.
So we have four aspects: Making your own rules, Following Temptation, Jealousy, and speaking poorly about others.
They are also Deception, Deception, Deception and Deception. All the sins were different sides of deception.
So, what did The One Ultimate Power do? He put the two naked people and the snake in a world full of deception, which was a world of their own making. Then he said 'really, you made this mess. So go clean it up.' That was the punishment.
And now, thousands and thousands of years later, we're still making more of a mess and not really cleaning much up. But the solution is simple.
Don't make up your own rules - just do what is natural and what is good. Don't follow temptation, follow the truth that you know. Don't be jealous of others, just be happy with what you have. Don't speak poorly about your brother, be good to him. In short, be good to each other!