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The best place to begin explaining my beliefs is right
at the beginning of the canonical Bible. (I use the
term "canonical" because there are scriptures to which
I'm open-minded which aren't in the Bible the
Protestants use.) Genesis 1:1: "In the beginning,
God created the heaven and the earth." The word
translated as "God" is Elohim [sometimes written as
Elohiym], and refers not to a single entity, but a
singular group both male and female. From there,
creation progressed as we're familiar: Seven "days"
of creation. (Might be epochs; Zola Levitt proposed a
fascinating theory whereby God moved through the
universe at speeds near or greater than that of light.
Given Einstein's Theory of Relativity, the
perspective of God may have been a timeframe of a
week, while it took much longer to our perspective.)
I want to stop briefly at Genesis 1:27: "So God
created man in his own image, in the image of God
created he him; male and female created he them."
This is King James Version, and reflects an inadequacy
of the English language: The ability to speak of both
genders with a single pronoun. In any case, even in
KJV the message is clear: Man and woman were both
created in the image of God. I believe both were
created on the sixth day of Creation.
One last stop in Genesis 1: "And God said, Behold, I
have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon
the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the
which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it
shall be for meat." [1:29] Note here that God said
nothing of the Tree of Knowledge.
On to Genesis 2: "These are the generations of the
heavens and of the earth when they were created, in
the day that the Lord God made the earth and the
heavens." [2:4] Two things to note here: First, the
use of the word "generations". Some time has passed
from the week of Creation to this time. Second, the
appearance of the "Lord God". From Hebrew: yhwh
l'hym. The name means YHWH/Jehovah/Yahweh of Elohim;
as such, it is probably more accurately translated as
"Lord of the Gods". Genesis 2:7: "And the Lord God
formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a
living soul." Why, when man was already created on
the sixth day of Creation, did "God" create man
afterwards? 2:8: "And the Lord God planted a garden
eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had
formed." So it appears that man was not created in
Eden after all, but was taken to the Garden of YHWH's
indulgence.
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2:16-17: "And the Lord God commanded the man, saying,
Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
But of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, thou
shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest
thereof thou shalt surely die." As we know, man did
eat from that tree, and did not die "in the day".
Also, the Lord God proscribed from man that which God
had already prescribed. God said every tree. The
Lord God said, "Every tree but this one."
From here, of course, Eve was formed from Adam's rib.
These are the counterfeit humans of whom I speak: A
man and a woman, created not in the week of Creation,
but afterwards. Adam was created out of Eden, Eve
created in. This contradicts the claim that God
created man and woman in Their image on the sixth day
of creation, before the Garden was yet formed.
Genesis 3 says that the serpent was more subtil [sic]
than any beast of the field which the Lord God had
made. The obvious question is, where did the serpent
come from, if the Lord God didn't create it? Most
Christians believe that the serpent is Satan.
However, Satan is a deceiver. The serpent of Genesis
3 speaks the truth.
The serpent asks Eve if God has said that they cannot
eat from every tree of the garden. Here, the serpent
is giving Eve cause to think. The fact that we have
record of the Creation account from Genesis 1 suggests
that Eve knows that Elohim gave all the fruit of every
tree "as meat" for mankind. Yet here is YHWH, the
Lord God, saying that there is one tree from which man
shall not eat.
Eve answers that they may eat of every tree except the
tree in the midst of the Garden. Obviously, Adam and
Eve played the game of asking YHWH which tree it was
from which they could not eat. I imagine a couple of
small children, much like my son, asking, "Is it this
one? How about this one?" until finally it's
identified as the one smack dab in the middle of the
Garden.
The serpent answers, "Ye shall not surely die: For
God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then
your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods,
knowing good and evil." [3:4-5] What I hold, and
what most Christians reject, is that not one word of
this is false. Adam and Eve did not die. Their eyes
were opened. And, as we shall see, they were as gods.
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