Now and Here…

via Jesus Walk

We are told by the religions that man has two natures, good and evil. One is then compelled to ask why god would instill such propensities in his own creations, who are made in his image? And if there is a point to the decision, what it is?

We read that God created man and woman. This implies that God is not man or woman himself, yet the religions all over the globe constantly depicted and referred to God as male, even when, as in the case of Hebrew, the name for Deity is of a feminine gender.

Why would God create something born in his image, deny him some aspect of knowledge, and then banish him from paradise once it had been received? Why does God condemn his creations for something was not a conscious transgression?

We are told that man was not originally evil. He became that way after the disobedience of Eve in the Garden: or that they both became so after falling under the influence of the Evil one - Satan. Why would God allow his newly created beings to be in the proximity of such a being?

One can also ask who created the serpent, and why the tests on those who must already be innocent in nature. Were there not other more reliable Angels to send?

In the case of Job - why the test on someone that the omnipotent god must know is innocent? - and again, why send Satan to do the testing, a being that himself cannot be trusted?

One cannot also conceive of the reason for the existence of any being, like Satan, that has no good in him at all. Surely, God could only know evil if he had brought evil into the world.

What are we to think of the implication that evil was in the world, even before man or woman were created?

If Satan could even have the ability to aspire toward supreme godhead and there are hierarchies of angels, etc., then perhaps God can indeed be rivaled and perhaps even surpassed.
From the DVD: Atlantis, Alien Visitation & Genetic Manipulation by Michael Tsarion