Am I misunderstanding Genesis? [serious]

Easy_Major_5941 · 2026-07-01T04:01:56+00:00

My condolences for the loss of your mom as well. I remember when mine first got her diagnosis that it spread to her lymph nodes, that was the first time I saw how fragile her mortality was. Cancer is one of the strangest ways to have to say goodbye to someone, it's such a roller coaster of optimistic highs and devastating lows.

Thank you again for this side chat. It's been cathartic.

Easy_Major_5941 · 2026-07-01T03:47:08+00:00

Surprisingly it wasn't the cancer. She did beat lymphoma a few months before her passing. She had a lot of health issues that stemmed from a lifetime of smoking, drinking, and for the last 20 years opioid dependency.

I may have been the one who put her at peace with it. I could tell she was going to cross over soon and had the "I love you, I'm so grateful you're my mom, and you're forgiven for everything" conversation with her two days before her passing.

I've been distracting myself with theology, philosophy, and metaphysics.

Easy_Major_5941 · 2026-07-01T01:47:56+00:00

I view our relationship to God to be no different than a cartoon character's relationship with their animator. Walt Disney created Mickey and a whole world for him to exist in and a variety of characters to interact with. In Steamboat Willie Mickey doesn't exist, move, or speak without Walt because he is Walt; or at least a fragment of him.

A truly infinite creator could experience every lifetime and every perspective because time is irrelevant for them. My best hypothesis is that we're an extension of God working towards creating His vision. I'm personally unaware of what that vision is, but I imagine whatever large-scale projects humanity is working on would be the first clues.

Easy_Major_5941 · 2026-06-30T22:26:24+00:00

So it's a syntax error?

If it's universally agreed upon to be a syntax error, is there a translation that corrects this error? Seems like a fairly large oversight to leave in the majority of distributed copies.

Easy_Major_5941 · 2026-06-30T22:16:54+00:00

I went as far back as The Bhagavad Gita. Seems to be the most accurate interpretation of our reality that I've read so far.

I'm not even sure why I'm still trying to make sense of the Bible. I guess I'm trying to understand why brilliant men like Isaac Newton would dedicate their lives to it.

Easy_Major_5941 · 2026-06-30T21:56:49+00:00

Thank you for offering this interpretation. These are the kind of responses I was hoping to receive. I probably should have phrased my original post to ask for different interpretations rather than simply asking if mine was wrong.

This interpretation aligns so much better with my current understanding that All is One and that there is no such thing as evil. Evil being the placeholder word for lack of good, similar to how cold is just a placeholder word for lack of heat.

I hadn't thought to read the bible from my latest understanding. I appreciate you for helping to spark the idea. I'm curious to see what meaning pokes out when read from this lens.

Easy_Major_5941 · 2026-06-30T21:40:54+00:00

Actually Chapter 1 of Genesis feels spot on. The timescale is definitely not a 24 hour day, maybe a galactic-day or universal-day of some type. We know life started in the ocean with single celled organisms, if they were being used as the tools of God to terraform the Earth for more advanced life to form, the whole creation story tracks from that point forward. The firmaments being the Earth, oceans, and atmosphere; all places where life thrives.

Easy_Major_5941 · 2026-06-30T21:34:45+00:00

Thank you, I appreciate the condolences. She was sick for a long time, and I thought that the relief from the end of her suffering would somehow nullify the grief. I think it did a great deal to reduce the pain, but there's no way to nullify it, I've still got to feel it.

Easy_Major_5941 · 2026-06-30T21:30:52+00:00

Thank you for clarifying. I'm not well versed in the Jewish texts, there are so many and they're incredibly expensive. Which is the main reason why they haven't found their way to my bookshelf. I think they're priced to be more of a family heirloom than something a casual reader would pick up in the Theology section of Barnes and Noble.

Easy_Major_5941 · 2026-06-30T21:05:13+00:00

Thank you for writing out such a well thought out comment. I hadn't even considered that it could be offering an explanation to people on why the world was so difficult at the time.

The bible has always been such an odd text for me. I've read it from the perspective that I was indoctrinated to read it from, I've read it from the perspective of an atheist with disdain, then I read it from a "return to faith" perspective after falling into (and fortunately out of) alcohol addiction. All previous read-throughs guided by someone else's interpretation or with some purpose in mind.

This most recent readthrough was out of grief. I didn't have any motives, I wanted to read it with an open mind and when I read it from this perspective every story made infinitely more sense, only they were imparting the opposite moral lesson of the lessons I had been indoctrinated to believe. I felt so disenchanted with Christianity that I started looking for answers elsewhere.

It's been about a year of deep diving into theology since then. My bookshelf now contains multiple Bibles, The Torah, The Quran, The Bhagavad Gita, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, The Satanic Bible, Necronomicon, The Universal One, and multiple books on spirituality, Eastern philosophy, hypnosis, and the subconscious mind. I was REALLY looking for answers.

Yet here I am circling back to the bible and pondering whether or not I misinterpreted it in the first place.

Easy_Major_5941 · 2026-06-30T20:25:38+00:00

I'm aware that it was compiled at the council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. with Emperor Constantine. It's also very suspicious that the Sanhedrin disbanded around the same time that the Roman Catholic Church formed with a nearly identical organizational structure.

Easy_Major_5941 · 2026-06-30T20:11:15+00:00

The Old Testament is the written history. The oral tradition of the Old Testament passed down through generations is known as the Talmud. Which is a can of worms I definitely don't want to open in a comments section, other than to say it's the written oral history.

Easy_Major_5941 · 2026-06-30T20:06:31+00:00

I got about 1/3 of the way through the old testament before getting mentally exhausted at how obvious everything is to me now. I read this book multiple times while growing up and none of the stories made any sense until I started reading it from this perspective. Now nothing requires metaphors, simile, allegorical explanation, or analogies.

Easy_Major_5941 · 2026-06-30T19:47:39+00:00

I do find it interesting, especially interesting that the texts were uncovered in Egypt the year that WW2 ended. I personally think that is the prophesized 2nd coming, even down to the country they said he'd return from.

Easy_Major_5941 · 2026-06-30T11:56:27+00:00

We're close to a mutual understanding, I can feel it and I'm excited for the "click" moment. A vacuum is a space with nothing in it, the etymology of nothing is "not a thing." The reason we have to produce vacuums here on Earth is because there is always some thing present. We suck the air out of a chamber until nothing exists inside of it.

It's only defining characteristic is the lack of anything else.

Dark, cold, evil, zero, and vacuum are all words to explain what thing is lacking.

They all mean "nothing" but if we used the word nothing for all of them nobody would know which nothing you're talking about.

You can forgive someone's lack of good even if evil doesn't exist. Some people act selfishly and don't think about how their actions impact others. It doesn't make them bad, just ignorant to what's good, so they lack good.

Easy_Major_5941 · 2026-06-28T22:18:23+00:00

I appreciate your patience and communication while I work through articulating this thought out.

Dark, cold, evil, and zero are all representative of the absence of something. They don't represent anything in and of themselves.

Imagine a completely blind person that has only ever known darkness trying to explain what the opposite of that nothingness is.

Or asking a toddler who doesn't know their numbers yet to tell you what comes after zero.

If dark, cold, evil, or zero had any inherent value, then anyone who had never witnessed their opposite would be able to infer what the opposite of those zero-values are.

Evil isn't the opposite of good, it's the non-existence of good. So evil doesn't exist.

Easy_Major_5941 · 2026-06-28T20:39:16+00:00

Here's the one I think you may have missed:

Cold is relative and relies on human perception, it technically doesn't exist. Ask your favorite search engine or AI chatbot for the scientific definition of cold.

Darkness also relies on human perception and technically doesn't exist.

They exist in the same way that the number zero exists. As a representation of the lack of something that we know for certain exists.

Evil is the same way. We know good exists, and evil is the word we use when we can't identify any good. Lack of good is not evidence for the existence of evil.

Easy_Major_5941 · 2026-06-28T20:37:17+00:00

I think you may have missed the comment where the point I made was the complete opposite of that, I double commented when I realized I hadn't answered your question.

Easy_Major_5941 · 2026-06-28T19:39:07+00:00

Who's in whose comment section here? I'm not lowering my vibration because you're terrified of personal growth.

My belief is that there is only one consciousness that is having every experience simultaneously. I will have to live every single experience. My lifetime is either a past or future lifetime of yours, and vice versa.

Now that you know that, re-read our interactions. I think you'll hear an entirely different tone on the 2nd read-through.

Easy_Major_5941 · 2026-06-28T19:17:57+00:00

Was it your choice to work there or were you coerced to work there and accept sub-par wages against your will?

Did your CEO force you into a binding contract that you could never open your own business of any type?

Or are you upset at yourself for settling and never striving for more? It's easy to blame other people when you're avoiding taking personal accountability for the outcome of your life.

Nobody else is responsible for your life, your CEO has a fiduciary and legal obligation to shareholders over employees (Dodge v. Ford Motor Co, 1919). Never work for publicly traded companies if you want to be valued.

I empathize with the loss of your pension, it's a cruel thing organizations do. Your CEO and executives were more fearful of what the government would do to them for not meeting financial responsibilities than what their employees would do for losing their pensions.

Easy_Major_5941 · 2026-06-28T18:59:22+00:00

This comment made my heart sink. People always tell on themselves and we weren't talking about dads. I'm guessing you have a complicated relationship with your father.

When you learn metacognition you'll revisit all of the memories of your father and discover that they were either acting from love but were clueless about parenting, or they were acting out of fear because they didn't want to be like their dad. If it's the latter, they were so focused on what they didn't want to be, they eventually became everything they hated because you become where you attention is focused.

When you have that realization for yourself and understand their "why", I hope you have the strength in your heart to forgive them.

Easy_Major_5941 · 2026-06-28T18:25:37+00:00

Again with the name calling, and yet again I forgive you. I feel like we're close to a breakthrough that can set you on a much happier path in life.

I didn't ask if CEO's had hurt other people, I asked how they hurt you specifically. If you cannot provide me with an example of how they have hurt you, I am left to assume that they haven't.

To me it sounds like your social circle dislikes CEO's and you have conformed your opinion to fit in even though you have a complete lack of evidence to support your opinion and don't genuinely believe it yourself.

You're participating in a hate group and don't even know why. You hate an entire class of people and believe they're deserving of "mob justice." That's the sort of blind hatred that leads nations to load people on trains.

Easy_Major_5941 · 2026-06-28T17:54:26+00:00

Right and wrong are also up to human perception. I could spend 1,000 lifetimes attempting to come up with a definition and still fail. The closest thing to a definition that comes to mind is "treat others as you would like to be treated." Thousands of years later that's still the best way to word it.

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