Do you believe in – or – can you distinguish between – right and wrong? Darkness and light? If you do, if you can – you are bestowed the knowledge of Good and Evil that was passed onto your species from the beginning. By – or through – the Creator of your species – and every other that inhabits this world or others. A species we are told, mirrors (in image) that of this same Creator. If we doubt the merit of creator, look around the vastness of design in all of nature, we ourselves or even universe beyond. And, look upon our own insatiable nature to build, write, make and construct things.
However, the knowledge granted, whether asked for or not, is there; and with it comes an unfortunate side effect – that is, the sins of Man. And if we doubt that, consider our bent (from childhood) to cheat, lie, steal, hurt, sometimes kill or maim. To speak ill of others, to obsess and possess all manner of things, simply to please ourselves, or gain the acknowledgement of others. (Luckily, these are not true of all; simply, most of us can relate). As children, it manifests in the ‘small’ ways we take for granted. ‘Kids being kids.’ As youths and adults, if not trained up with values, we succumb to the ways of the world – ‘the way it is.’ We play the game, because we’re programmed to. All the while, often not knowing the condition we’re truly in. That being, a creature with an inner, innate fuse to be sparked, and thereby come to know (and understand) the being that made us (specifically to interact with himself) as well with each other and the creatures around us.
Some of us may not – would not – care … for an opportunity to rectify these … ways (that come to us as a result of the ‘knowledge’) to this Creator (whom we call God) if he had an issue with these … sins. Some of us would. And an issue He does have with these ‘ways’ of ours. Although no means exists for we ourselves to rectify our wrongs to Him/ourselves (other than the futility of trying to make it up within our own power), He came up with one. And rightly so, since it was not we who asked to be between a rock and a hard place, right out of the gate, coming into our existence. He knew he didn’t have to, but He also knew that, individually, none of us asked for this (from the womb). So, to be fair and because He loved us, just as much; nay, even more than everything else in creation, he did what no One should have to do.
-by Alan
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