December 29th, 2006

 

For those who have read my blog from yesterday, you will find that I intend to start my little New Year's resolution a little early. 

 

I started reading the Bible.  The church that I go to does this "Through the Bible In a Year" program, but it has, in more recent years, wanted its followers to just go through one particular testament.  I intend to do both of them, and so I read Genesis 1 and 2, as well as the first chapter of Matthew. 

 

I always liked the creation account.  Considering that I've grown up on movies like Star Wars and others, I've always tended to imagine these sequences with as much special effects as possible.  Especially when films like Star Trek II and Titan A.E. have shown us man-made ways of making planets. 

 

Today, I found myself wishing that I were Adam.  This man had to have been the luckiest man in the universe.  He was put on the Earth, naked, and given a woman, who was also naked.  Apparently, there were no children born before the fall, but they were commanded to go forth, be fruitful and multiply.  So bascially, Adam was put forth on a paradise on Earth, and told to have sex. 

 

This is every man's dream.  If that were me, I would never give it up for a bite of a fruit.  What in the world made Adam think it was worth it?  Maybe he didn't want to have sex while God was watching.  Try not to think about this too much, but if Adam and Eve were both naked, and not ashamed, then did they have a sex-drive before the fall?  That kind of doesn't make any sense, if God commanded them to multiply.  Did God have to explain to them how to have sex?  Was He there for the "first time".  Well, honestly, God is omni-present, so He is there every time.  However, I'd have to admit, that would be awkward to have sex while someone else is in the room.  That's why they invented "Do Not Disturb" signs.

 

Unfortunately, Adam wasn't on a complete honeymoon.  He still had to work the garden, apparently.  I always wondered how much Adam was expected to do.  I mean, he and Eve were only two people.  Without a John Deere tractor, how much could they do?  It actually looked like rain came out of the ground like a mist, so that means no watering.  I'm also guessing that there were no thorns or weeds, and so that excludes a lot of work right there. 

 

I would literally give my soul for something like this.  So why did they chuck it all?  Curiosity.  Not only did it kill the cat, but it killed everyone else as well.  All they had to do was just not do something, but they just had to know. 

 

Such a powerful force is curiosity.  I have often been lost for hours contemplating the endless possibilities of the what if.  There are many choices that I could have made.  Some of them do not even occur to me until after the fact, and yet, I will always wonder what would have happened if I had done something different.  Still, I know some choices are just amoral, and I can't choose them despite my curiosity. 

 

Perhaps the difference between a good person and a bad person isn't the fact that each has evil thoughts.  The good person is the one who simply is willing to abandon their curiosity.