PARADISE LOST

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Christian East Asian Fiction

Who would know the origin of all knowledge if not the Written wo Why written word? This is the only basis that man can discern his own existence on Earth. They call the written word to be scriptures written by scribes. Before the written word man worship the physical world . Their gods are numerous. They build temples to venerate them in the form of deities. They ask favor from these individual deities. One deity whom they present their offerings in exchange of a favor they are asking such as conceiving a child or simple favor of healing of a specific illness. Those who consider Budha as their God which is found in temples that they inclusively worshipped in the past has changed when the world began to learn about Christianity. This happened in the middle ages when men worship gods which they call paganism because of venerating the physical gods like animals and the other beings like Budha. Christianity started when the scribes wrote the Bibles which first part is the Old Testament. One has to get hold of the book to understand the Written Word. The first book that was written is about God the only Creator of Earth. the Creator of all things including the whole universe. The first book of Moses which is Genesis when God created the world has to be read or it will not come to mind at all how the world came to be. It says the world was a vast empty space , On that day God created heaven and Earth. The Earth was without form. it is void. It is total darkness. The Spirit Of God declared that He will light up the darkness and it was split into day and night. So the Earth has light and darkness. On the Second Day God created heaven and under heaven is the Earth. On Earth it is a whole globe that He put dry land on one side and water on the other side,. When the dry land appeared He put grass on it and tress to yield fruit of their kind. On the next day Morning and Evening are seen when the heaven was divided into day and night. It is said lights come from heaven that lighted the Earth. It is said that there is a bigger light during the day and myriads of smaller lights at night. The next day He created the moving creatures on Earth including those that can fly in the open space above the Earth, These creatures roam on Earth and the big fishes swim in the big waters . So all the animals move around on Earth and the big fishes in the sea swim in the wide deep open seas. Then God wanted to create beings in His image and likeness. Here He took a piece of clay from the Earth and molded him into a Man. Then He blow air into his nostril and he became a living human being. In the next few days God noticed Adam the Human Being he created seem to be lonely. God thinks Adam may need a partner since Adam is a male. What God di is to take away a rib from Adam to create the other human being to live with Adam. When He put air into her nostrils she became a living female human being. Adam are the first human beings who lived on Earth. They do not have the same sex. One is male and the other is female. They are totally opposite in their looks and physique. While living in that location that God designated for them to live which God calls it Paradise is really beautiful. It is a paradise because the first man and woman live in abundance as God has given them to rule over the Earth and Heaven that God created. They can do anything they want to feed themselves . living in abundance with no effort but live leisurely. comfortably and in good and relaxing mode since everything is provided by God to them, the basic necessities food and shelter, God has set rules for them to follow to continue their life of luxury and abundance except eating the forbidden fruit. God strictly instructed them not to eat the fruit of the tree bearing fruit of good and evil or they will be cut off enjoying their life in Paradise He gave to them,

One day Eve accidentally meet a talking serpent that explained to her how delicious is the fruit to eat and Eve will learn many things about her surroundings as the fruit will enable her to know what is good and what is bad. Meanwhile Adam didn't know where Eve has wandered. He goes to the forest where the forbidden tree grows and there Adam found Eve to be hiding from him. "What happened?" Adam asked. Eve cannot face Adam. She gives him the part of the forbidden fruit she has eaten. Adam didn't swallow it and so it was stuck in his throat. Adam and Eve begin to argue. Adam blames Eve why she ate the Forbidden Fruit. Eve says the Serpent tempted her that she will become wiser and smarter. But Adam insists that she must have followed God's command. When God checks where Adam and Eve go. God couldn't find them, They feel shameful of what they did and they became shameful being naked. Then God is very angry and furious of what they did. At the height of His anger God said to Adam. "From this day on , you will labor in order to live that all your sweat will come out from your brow," Turning his head to Eve, he said. " From now on you will give birth with pain and suffering an? that humans will multiply and occupy the Earth. What happened in the land of Paradise? Can this be true so that all the sufferings originated by the first settlers on Earth. Is male and female really created by God? Why are they not born like the human beings of today? Is this one of the mystery of life? Did the land of Paradise really existed? Where is it found? Is it really lost or is it existing until these days? If it is not true why do women suffer pain when they give birth? Why do men nowadays keep working to provide food for his family Why is the third basic necessity of covering the female and male body came after the downfall of Adam and Eve in the land of Paradise? The New Testament is written by other groups called Apostles to write about the life of Jesus Christ as the Son of God to save God's created human beings to take away their wrongdoings and go back to God and follow His commandments. The Son of God coming to live on Earth to live the way God wants Him to live and yet He was killed by those He wanted to save to get back the life God created in the beginning. Paradise is lost forever.

April 27, 2024 21:32

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