The Original Mistake of Biblical Proportions Redux

The Original Sin is a Christian product of faith conceptualized thousands of years after the fact. It seems to be known to everybody and their brother regardless of their religion or beliefs. Though it is retroactive, it’s consideration as the first sin could be why it is such a familiar idea: Christian belief of being forgiven for the partaking of forbidden knowledge.

Big limit on that knowledge, though. Adam and Eve knew they were naked, but not much else. They went and hid in the bushes. That’s how they got caught. God saw they were embarrassed.

Maybe forbidden fruit doesn’t taste real good, but once they decided to go for it, they should have stuffed themselves. Then they probably would have known to act like they didn’t know that they were naked and be cool instead of running into the bushes. They got us kicked out and now we have to work for a living.

As pissed off as God was, He still knew that they were embarrassed. So before He sent them off down the road, God made them clothes! They must have been outfitted perfectly. Can you imagine wearing clothes made by God? How good could that look? Always in style! It seems almost worth it. Come to think of it, maybe they did gorge. Maybe they got caught on purpose, figuring it less likely they’d be sent out naked and more likely the other possibility of having the best set of threads that could ever be worn.

“Looking good! Who’s your tailor?”

But I digress.

It is interesting to consider what the first sin is literally. That is, what is it that was first described using the word “sin” in the bible? Whatever intelligence was behind the bible, whether it be aliens, or God, or some real smart people, wanted this one to be considered the original, more widely known, most important sin. It makes sense, when you learn what it is. I’m embarrassed that I never thought about the actual first sin, even though I had a hard time with the popular naked forgiveness one, which pales in comparison, followed by goose bumps and shivering.

The intended original sin is going to have to be early on in order to be first. So God doesn’t waste any time and makes Cain jealous of Abel, and then gives him a hard time for hating his brother. That’s the first sin, right there. Hatred. Boom. Fresh out of the garden.

God or his ghost writer knew that people would be taking over the world. We were going to have powerful technology that would be unhinged by the thoughtlessness of hatred. But that first sin didn’t go viral like the newer Original Sin. We’d have a different world.

But there’s a twist: The modern English bible has mistranslated what was the first sin of wroth or hatred for anger!

Since it’s arguably the most important point of the bible, the English bible is broken and needs to be fixed.

It could be intentional. The powers that be use hatred divisively to keep people from uniting and deposing them. Maybe they try to invalidate the anger of the people in order to protect themselves. There are plenty of legitimate things to be angry about, unlike hate. Anger is not hate. It has its reasons, unless it’s being an expression of hatred and thus a thoughtless damage. Straight, legitimate anger is more of a fix than a damage. It alone is not only not a sin, but can gain value when it can be validated. Hatred knows no value.

Hatred is an original sin, and a form of insanity.

It is not a part of anyone who has any humanity.

Thanks for reading.