Sunday, February 3, 2019

Genesis 1:1

In the begining God created the heaven and the earth.. the most famous verse in the most published book on this planet. The first verse that I had read and the only one I remembered at all times. But the book that chronicles the creation of this planet throws up more questions that it answers. The most pressing of it, when God created male and female for all the other organisms that walked, crawled,  swam or flew why did He just create one man? Was His intention never to let man procreate? Did He want Himself to be enough for that human life? If so, what does man's want for a partner, which finally led God to create the woman, mean? The pang of loneliness that hit him when all the creatures were off minding their own lives? The need for a physical touch, the need to feel something real, the unspoken fact that God was never enough?
But did the creation of woman completely relieve his problems? Didn't it on the contrary open another totally unforeseen wormhole from which there was no return? So was God right to not initially give Man what he finally asked for? And was God right to give what was asked, knowing fully well what it would lead to? After all he is the all-knowing one. Or was it that knowing what the creation of a woman would lead to, he had avoided doing that on His own accord, knowing that Man would ultimately ask for it. Thus absolving Himself from any guilt of being the source of the creation of trouble.
So.. is anything we ask something we should not be asking since by getting it we might subject ourselves to worse pain. Since every good thing that should have happened was already in the process by God's plan? Is our every request a flutter of the butterfly's wings?