We have not changed......
Today, I have a very different blog. I am going to talk a bit about my religion. But this post is not about religion. It is about humanity (人性). It is about why I am not surprised that it is not easy to change one's personality.....(please read the following patiently...)
Genesis Chapter 3 The Fall of Man
1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' "
4 "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. 5 "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD God called to the man, "Where are you?"
10 He answered, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid."
11 And he said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
12 The man said, "The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it."
The background of the story is simple. God created Adam and THEN Eve. Eve was 'cheated' by the serpent and ate the forbiden fruit. God was upset and punished both of them. The relationship between mankind and God was broken.....(something like that la ha...)
When I read this passage carefully, and paid attention to those lines which I bolded. I am very amazed that mankind have NEVER changed. We really have not! If you believe that Adam and Eve are our ancestors (wei, believing that is better than believing we were once MONKEY rite?), then this must have happened at least many many many many years ago. Even if you do not believe, but bible was written more than 2,000 years ago (this is old testament, so it should be much longer. but lets assume only 2000 years), and still WE HAVE NOT CHANGED.
Let me explain:-
- Verse 1 The serpent went to Eve but not Adam. not because she got boobs. It was because, God did not tell Eve directly. It was Adam responsibility to tell Eve. Serpent saw through that and took advantage of Eve's feeling (which could be a bit sore.) and asked her 'Did God really say'. Well, to Eve, she was NOT told directly....so if anything goes wrong, she could always claim...'well, you did not tell me DIRECTLY...' (don't you think that this situation happens around us all the time?)
- Verse 3 Eve then added 10% to what she heard from Adam (God did not say they should not touch the fruit. He simply said do not EAT) ....(dun you think this is how we start rumour?)
- Verse 4 The serpernt minus 50% of what God said. God told Adam, if you eat, you WILL surely die. But now the serpent is planting the doubt into Eve by telling her 'well, you MIGHT die. But not SURELY. ...(dun you think this is how we start rumour? we cast doubt into someone's belief. we plus and minus something into what we know?)
- Verse 5 This is about jeolousy (Eve wanting to be GOD).......we sore about somebody's success. We do not like to be UNDER somebody and we think we are AS GOOD AS THEM......
- Verse 6 When you read the passage, you might ask...where the hell was Adam? Well, the guy who heard directly from God and given the authoriy to take care of the earth then, was all these while NEXT to Eve. What did he do? NOTHING. Why? Well, I am not Adam. But i would speculate that he was most probably CUNNING. HE let Eve START the rebel....
- Verse 9&10 When God found out. He gave them a chance and asked 'Where are you?', God gave them the chance to COME FORWARD (remind me of my childhood leh). What did Adam and Eve do? They did not have the gut to come out. They played dumb.....
- Verse 11 and 12 THIS IS MY FAV verse. Now, God cannot tahan liao. God decided to confront them directly and went straight to the point. What did Adam and Eve do? ADAM POINTED FINGER AT EVE (Eve later pointed finger to the serpent). What did Adam say? He said "THE WOMAN YOU PUT HERE WITH ME...."....Whoa this guy got gut leh...he said. 'GOD, you put EVE with me first leh...then she told me to eat...ONLY then I ate'...
Whoa, I feel like a pastor now...ahem...kakakakakkakaka Anyway, I really like this passage. When I read it, I realised that WE HAVE NEVER CHANGED. WE MIGHT HAVE IMPROVED from KNOWLEDGE perspective. But INSIDE, we are as MUNDUR (ie. backward) as Adam and Eve....
Actually, up until now, I also dun know what my conclusion is...maybe I have not blogged for a long time and dun know how to blog liao...but never mind la....I managed to write so many words...
:D
Junior
posted by Junior @ 12:18 PM
10 Comments:
hohohohoho...btw do you know how to write 'beng' ah? I also dun know leh.....
wei, later can teach me how to do a few things like adding links, let people to book mark...etc etc ah? I want to change my blog leh...ON 25 May 2005 leh.....
wei, chinese blog leh? where? na li? na li?
Wa, siao Junior, you talk so many YehSo in your blog ka. starting with old testament, you wanto blog the whole bible out ka!?
i told you i 拜觀音 person, so much effort to finished your yehso. so next time i oso need to blog something long about AmiTouFatt lo :p
ROTFLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!
Just unbelievable!!!
Lib,
What's up dude?
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ROTFLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!
Just unbelievable!!!
Lib,
What's up dude?
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wah good to kong yehsu here
dont let me start otherwise i may pontificate,,,,....
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weiiiii lib, wei ah lia.... wassup?
y1
Liama,
You have not finished your business endeavour ah? sooooo long leh? I miss you leh...who is gonna return me my chastity?
Lockee, whoa, I am impressed with your knowledge in bible leh....like I said it is about mou yan seng...sorry, yan seng..not about religion leh
NM, you cannot believe I write serious stuff ah (besides porn ...) :D
LOL!!!
I thought something was wrong with my browser yesterday! :D
This morning I stumbled on this article on Star biz.
http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/5/18/business/10979713&sec=business
These buggers got great taste for name, rite?
Waiting for the day for this stock goes limit up or perhaps i should say limit down since this is ze trend.... and my kor-kor will surely say how cannnnnnnnnnnnn?
haiyaaaah.... ah kor.... dis one sure can one lo!
Die 4!
So sorry... i should have talked about balls first b4 talking finance!.... :D
So u putting bet on Arsenal issit?
pls?
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NM, I am writing on the Man U vs Arsenal match soon....stay tune...:D
weiii Ah Kor,
You cannot day day bluff me like this. Me click, click there, click y1's there, looking for ur bola tok on Arsenal/MU but instead u talk about G-Spot!
How cannnnnnnnnnnnn?
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