Genesis 3-6/Mark 1:14-39 (Creation)
Growing up as a Buddhist I never really questioned how we were created- ever!
I learned how the world was created by watching this Indian show called the "Mahabaratha". It was a soap opera about the Hindu Gods, the battle between good and evil and how the world was created through the eyes of Hinduism. At that time, I feel like every Indian kid watched it on Sunday with their parents while drinking tea and eating roti.
When I got married and learned about Catholicism, the stories of Adam and Eve were like DC/Marvel stories- fiction, myths, tales. I just couldn't believe it.
So logically as I read Genesis 4:1-26 (too long to write out), I starting drawing a family tree of Adam and Eve.. Cain andAbel Seth and none of it made sense.
Then from 5:1-32 I didn't understand the math, how could Adam live up to 930 years? I spent 2 days researching and asking my husband about this before I could form some sort of thought process. My husband said don't take it as facts, back in the day 930 years could mean something else because they didn't know the cycle of the sun. 5:1:5 "Thus all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty days; and he died", could mean that the name Adam (first or last name) lived for that many years.
The Old Testament doesn't really do a good job of explaining the next steps of creation.. it just sounded like a lot of incest to me, other online blogs agreed to that as well. If God told you to procreate, logically, a man and female had to have sex and if you only had 2 sisters..well than you have no choice. 😒
I guess that's why Buddha didn't really have a creation story to tell. He didn't find value in knowing how the world was created, he was more interested in the life we are living now.
Though I have to admit I got chills when God said to Noah (6:1:13) "I have determined to make an end of all flesh; for the earth is filled with violence through them; behold, I will destroy them with the earth."
All that love I spoke about in my second post went down the drain. God was so happy with his creation and then man kind just ruined it all. Actually, Eve did by eating the forbidden fruit, not cool Eve, not cool.
But, when I read Mark 1:29:38 and Jesus said to Simon "Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also; for that is why I came out," I could instantly relate. Jesus doesn't want people making the same mistakes, which is why he was getting rid of sickness and evil.
We as parents do the same thing. We tell our children to behave good and take right actions so that our consequences do not affect us poorly. Now i'm not saying that we are Son of God or Buddha but it is a step in the right directions. Only we can teach our children between right and wrong, good vs evil and the impact of our actions. We definitely do not want God destroying mankind again, I wonder what the Dinosaurs did to him to get obliterated?
Fun fact: "knew" means having sex in the Bible.
I learned how the world was created by watching this Indian show called the "Mahabaratha". It was a soap opera about the Hindu Gods, the battle between good and evil and how the world was created through the eyes of Hinduism. At that time, I feel like every Indian kid watched it on Sunday with their parents while drinking tea and eating roti.
For the longest time I thought this was God and how the Universe was created
When I got married and learned about Catholicism, the stories of Adam and Eve were like DC/Marvel stories- fiction, myths, tales. I just couldn't believe it.
So logically as I read Genesis 4:1-26 (too long to write out), I starting drawing a family tree of Adam and Eve.. Cain and
Then from 5:1-32 I didn't understand the math, how could Adam live up to 930 years? I spent 2 days researching and asking my husband about this before I could form some sort of thought process. My husband said don't take it as facts, back in the day 930 years could mean something else because they didn't know the cycle of the sun. 5:1:5 "Thus all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty days; and he died", could mean that the name Adam (first or last name) lived for that many years.
The Old Testament doesn't really do a good job of explaining the next steps of creation.. it just sounded like a lot of incest to me, other online blogs agreed to that as well. If God told you to procreate, logically, a man and female had to have sex and if you only had 2 sisters..well than you have no choice. 😒
I guess that's why Buddha didn't really have a creation story to tell. He didn't find value in knowing how the world was created, he was more interested in the life we are living now.
Though I have to admit I got chills when God said to Noah (6:1:13) "I have determined to make an end of all flesh; for the earth is filled with violence through them; behold, I will destroy them with the earth."
All that love I spoke about in my second post went down the drain. God was so happy with his creation and then man kind just ruined it all. Actually, Eve did by eating the forbidden fruit, not cool Eve, not cool.
But, when I read Mark 1:29:38 and Jesus said to Simon "Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also; for that is why I came out," I could instantly relate. Jesus doesn't want people making the same mistakes, which is why he was getting rid of sickness and evil.
We as parents do the same thing. We tell our children to behave good and take right actions so that our consequences do not affect us poorly. Now i'm not saying that we are Son of God or Buddha but it is a step in the right directions. Only we can teach our children between right and wrong, good vs evil and the impact of our actions. We definitely do not want God destroying mankind again, I wonder what the Dinosaurs did to him to get obliterated?
Fun fact: "knew" means having sex in the Bible.
