Traditional Big Questions and Big Answers
While
our Earthfolk insights into the Abrahamic Big Story are expressed
in the
four themes, to more clearly and strongly establish the links between the three Stories, a grid of
questions and answers provides insight into each Story’s
unique Big Answers. These answers are traditional. They come
from taking the Abrahamic story on its
own terms.
Q: Where do humans come from?
A: Humans cannot know this answer through
human research, analysis or science. Humans can only know Big Answers
through the Abrahamic
tradition and its sacred and revealed scriptures.
God does not reveal truth to everyone, though everyone
can have access to
truth by joining
the Abrahamic tradition through confessing and professing
the faith statements of the Abrahamic Big Story. In a somewhat
circular fashion,
revelation is a special knowledge, understood
only by those who have faith. This faith is explained to
you by a special group
whose male
members have been selected and ordained by
God through their response to God’s calling.
Q: How did humans get here?
A: Humans were created in the Garden of Eden. Adam was created
first. Eve was created from Adam’s rib. God created everything “out
of nothing,” that is, “creatio ex nihilo. ” God
created humans from dirt, and He breathed a soul into them. God
gave Adam dominion over all the Earth and all creatures, including
Eve.
Q: Where are humans going?
A: Eve was tempted by a devilish serpent. He gave
her knowledge of Good and Evil. Eve then tempted Adam. Together, they disobeyed God
by seeking a knowledge that God had reserved to Himself.
This is symbolized by the “Tree of the Knowledge of Good and
Evil.” Together,
Adam and Eve committed an original sin,
and so were cast out, exiled from the Garden of Eden. Life
on Earth is cursed, and
it will expire
in an end-of-time apocalyptic event during which God and
His
Messiah will return. At the End, evildoers
will be slain, and true believers
will be saved. All faithful Abrahamics will live in eternity
with God. Heaven is like the Garden
of Eden.
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