WALRUS666 wrote:
I've always thought that it was God who created sin in this world. Apparently, there was sin in this world prior to Adam & Eve eating the fruit. So, I'd say that the creator of the world, The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and the serpent is the guilty party. AIDS, War, Cancer, Poverty, Starvation, Suicide, Depression, Child Molestation, Rape, Murder, and Death (to name a few), are the results of two beings eating some fruit!? I don't know about you guys but if I was the creator I would have taken a pass at creating the serpent and this insidious tree! Have you ever seen any of those old black & white movies? Man, people weren't too bright back then. Now imagine going back to Adam & Eve's time! It wouldn't surprise me to see them swinging from the trees. In addition, Adam & Eve wouldn't have known that the serpent was lying to them (if indeed he was) because they had no knowledge of evil, so they wouldn't even know what a lie was, until they ate the fruit! Even in our barbaric society, these beings would not be held responsible for their actions and would not be punished but helped. Of course, I would question the ways that we'd try to help them, but nevertheless. Yep, I don't give any credence to the Adam & Eve story.
The Hebrew word ra is sometimes translated evil, so in the King James Version God created evil, but ra can also be translated as calamity or bad or ugly etc. Ra can mean justice through calamity. So when the KJV says God created evil what the original language actually conveyed was that God brought about calamity or disciplined sin. Sin means to miss the mark set by anyone. In the case of Adam sin was to reject the creator and deciding that he could judge what was good and what was evil. God didn't create sin. The serpent was an creature in the garden that was used by an angel to deceive Eve. The angel was the most beautiful of angels in heaven and had been given the charge of protecting Adam and Eve, but instead deceived them into thinking that they could judge what was good and what was bad. So AIDS, War, Cancer, Poverty, Starvation, Suicide, Depression, Child Molestation, Rape, Murder and Death, aside from being good material for Heavy Metal recording artists, was a product of man rather than God. Adam, by the way, did know that the serpent had lied to him because the creator had set down the truth before him and who was this serpent to say different? One of the things that Jesus did was to demonstrate that the perfect Adam didn't have to sin. When you compare Adam to anyone in our barbaric society you fail to appreciate that the earth had been given to Adam to do what he wanted and to just enjoy himself with only the stipulation that he keep in mind the obvious fact that his creator knew what was best for him and could give guidance and protection. Adam rejected that so the creator, Jehovah God, had very little choice but to let him have a go of it on his own. All of the things you mention above are a result of that, but, the creator will step in before man has destroyed all of it completely [looks at watch] and set it right only for those who would have better sense than Adam had.
