Birth of Adam’s Myth
Our fancy sometimes want to visualize our parentage in full line- back and back and back until the last possible which will be the first possible one too.That kind of study is called history . History must have a beginning before man could begin to write. We today can only addd a few lines or points to history. I live on the last page of history as far as I am concerned. To view the whole of history I have to view back and this view begins with me. I am the starting point in the rear viwe/review of history; the end point (i.e. the starting point, really) ought to be a point lime me – a man like me. This means that the search for the beginning of history of man must stop at a man, or, a man & a woman who are every bit like me and my woman and worthy to be our first parents. Now since those two are the very first and therefore there can be no one before them, they annot be born of a woman. The intellect takes the cue and resorts to the only posible logical solution: they were created ab nihilo – from nothing or , better still, from dust. And create is an act of pre existing intelligence. This intelligence is represented as GOD. The author of the first chapter of the Bible invented the names Adam and Eve, but we don’t know how. Nor do we know what he exactly meant by each of the two. And that is not significant as long as we understand that the words are names and are names of the first two humans
The author of the first chapter of the old testament was thus prompted by his perception of his counterpart possessing all the human frailties and imperfections and perversions as is not consistant with heavenly existence on earth.He had, therefore, invented a device by which he could explain why, when and how man began to experience , or inherit all the earthly woes -pain, hardships, disease and death. They had to deserve it all, but how? The solution was so brilliantly technical– man did something which displeased GOD( here God had a human nature), God decided to punish ( God had revenge worse than man’s) , so God cursed Adam and Eve (if man curses it is a sin), the result of God’s curse was all the evils as we see in the world even to this day. Now, what greater intelligence is there where science postulates that a particular amoeba was the precursor (grand parent) of all moving animals including man? True, we cannot now give up the idea of evolution and our study of history has to be in consonance with theory of evolution.. But then wnen are we going to discover “when intelligence evolved?”Or even “‘which came first? intellilgence or the neuron?”. Or at what stage of evolution of the neuron or brainmatter did the soul appear?Again can we rule out the possibility that one day our scientists may declare that each neuron of our nervous system is a soul?Thus rendering the most incomprehensible soul now really understandable.?
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