A Plate Of Arrogance With A Little Ignorance On The Side:
A Look Into Religion And Its Ability To Make You Live Forever
Human beings have been longing for an answer to immortality and have been trying
to answer why we are here since the beginning of our creation. Answers to these
questions seem to come in similar yet respectively different packets from culture
to culture.
The Jews and Christians believe that God created the heavens and the Earth
by use of His divine, begotten powers and in the process created Man in His
image whom He called Adam. This is what the Old Testament in Bible leads us
to believe or base faith in. From what we can tell, Man was granted everlasting
life and was given free reign over all God had created. He was given the power
to name the plants and animals as he saw fit and after doing so, Man became
lonely. He asked God to bring him a companion. God then put Adam into a deep
sleep, removed one of his ribs and created Woman. They lived together with all
the animals God had created and both Man and God were happy.
Woman, Eve as she had been named by Adam, was deceived by Evil into believing
that by eating a fruit, which God had forbid them from eating, she would gain
all the knowledge that God possessed. She gave some of the fruit to her husband
and told him what Evil had said to her. They ate the fruit together where they
then became aware of their nakedness and when God came looking for them they
hid because they were afraid to be seen now. God was upset with them and with
Evil for tricking them. God banished Evil and condemned Man to mortality. Or
so the Bible says. Many choose to believe that the Bible itself is nothing more
then just another attempt to reach ...