Why What Was So Exceedingly Good Went So Terribly Wrong
In the authoritative and authentic record of Creation in Genesis, at the end of the second chapter, we learn and understand that what God had created and made was good and very good - exceedingly good.
Man is placed in a perfect environment. There is no sin - no disease - no death - no pain - no corruption - no pollution. There is no struggle for survival. The written text gives no hint or suggestion of that which is quite different from what is taught in the various theories of evolution.
A Drop Becoming The Ocean, And The Ocean Becoming A Drop
It is difficult to translate the Sanskrit word ajnana (ignorance) for a lack of its English equivalent, hence the ambivalence.To the Western way of thinking the word ‘ignorance’ conveys a state of stupor or a “blanking out of the mind”. But it is not so.
All knowledge is of the mind – accumulation of information stored as memory. We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge, just as we may read all the Bibles in the world, but that will not give us religion. Theoretical religion is easy enough to get, any one may get that. What we want is practical, experiential religion.