But how does this relate to religious belief, or how can the 2 co-exist comfortably
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But how does this relate to religious belief, or how can the 2 co-exist comfortably
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How does this relate to religious belief?
First you would have to disassociate yourself from religious belief, accept what you already know, that religions could be wrong. Religious beliefs, supernatural deities, could just be distorting the picture for you.
I have searched for decades for the original word of mouth story which would have influenced the Garden of Eden story. Unfortunately, it seems to have been lost in the hands of time, and all we are left with is the brief written versions. The original, word of mouth story, would have opened many doors of knowledge and understanding.
Every other ancient, base root cultures on Earth have spirits in their begining, The African Bushman, the Australian aboriginal just two examples. We have no knowledge of what God per se was, a spirit is just one possible answer of many.
Our first introduction with spirits comes with the serpent in the Garden of Eden. This aligns with other hunter and gatherer testimony.This extends right throughout the bible. The practice of exorcism, is based on spirits, Moses parting the waters is based on spirits (alchemy) as is his tapping a rock and getting water from it in the middle of a desert. The alledged story of Jesus. The end resultant of ascension for all who go to heaven, or the ones like me, destined to hell, are all based on spirits.
The relationship is there, it just isn't normally related to or associated to in this way by modern day religions. They have turned the serpent in the garden of eden into the devil as one example, Moses parting the waters into a miracle of supernatural proportions as another.