Original Sin

When I was young I was told that Original Sin was Eve swiping an apple and God getting really angry and throwing Eve and poor Adam out of the house. Now, if God got that pissed off over an apple, imagine if he ever found out about those two cookies I pilfered the night before. No way did I want an up close and personal meeting with God!!

Then, when I aged a bit, I was led to believe the “forbidden fruit” was sex . Since I had spent every day wishing for X ray glasses, this was not a happy discovery. I was screwed, in a very nonphysical sense.

Life passed, stuff happened and I found every core belief I held was stirred, shaken and mashed. I could choose to die in the spirit or live in the spirit. I began to read, to talk to people, to question and to meet God on a different level. He was quite happy to bring miracles into my life. An old proverb of some group says, “When the student is ready a teacher will appear, not because he was sent, but because he was always there.” And in the last three years, at the most incredible times and places, teachers have appeared.

The first thing I came to believe was that Original Sin had nothing to do with fruit or celebration; and everything to do with Judgment. Before, the knowledge of good and evil was present in the world, people wanted for nothing, feared nothing and lived in total peace. Everyone was equal, nothing was “wrong” or “right”. Once Eve decided something was “good”, then by extension, other things were “wrong” and needed “fixing”. Now, fear entered the world and with it anger, because anger is always fear in disguise. If some were “good enough” others must “not be good enough”

Not with anger, but with great sadness, God closed the doors and chucked man into what we now have. And sadly, we brought judgment with us. The most insidious cruel form is when you decide you know what someone else is feeling, or what they “really” mean. To appreciate it in its cruelest form listen to Rush on the radio, or to the church that tells you why certain of “those” people will burn forever.

And I am astounded that the most judgmental people I have ever met are the first to tell you how open minded and nonjudgmental they are.