OF MUD CAKES AND RIBLETS
Warning: Nothing sacred, holy, absolute or dogmatic about the following; just the mental meanderings of a Possibilian
How Did God get to be God?
In the beginning, but there was no beginning—always was. always will be, just BEING, no limits in time, no limits in space.
Finite being, no matter how large it becomes, will always be a fraction of nonfinite being as long as the denominator is infinite. Finite mind cannot know the Infinite but can be influenced by it since Divine Mind is everywhere.
God is a word, a name for a being that cannot be named, a name made up by finite mind’s attempt to know Infinity.
In the story of Creation, which is the basis of the world’s great religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, God allows man the prerogative of naming, but who named God? Since the story is told in the third person, we assume it was the human narrator.
And why oh why did He tempt them with the forbidden fruit since He KNEW that they would eat it? And after they did., they hid and He couldn’t find them as if they (the three of them) were playing a game of hide and seek.
Adam came first, created from clay, a kind of mud cake, and after he had named all living creatures, he was put into a deep sleep by God, who then, almost as an afterthought, took from Adam a rib, which he made into a woman, a riblet, who was to be ruled over by her husband who called her Woman since “she was taken out of Man.”
It could have been the other way around: Eve, as Adam named her since she was the mother of all living, could have been first and Adam the riblet and her helpmate, or possibly the two of them created at the same time from the same clay.
And how different our world would be today if either of those scenarios had occurred. But the Holy Book had it otherwise.
January 29, 2013
