The New Truth Seeker: Sexual Immorality

ROOT OF EVIL WAS AN IMMORAL SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP

There is ample evidence today that the root of evil, the Fall, was an immoral sexual relationship. God created the sexual act of love as the most precious, holy and exciting expression of love in our lives. Yet throughout history the act of love has often been regarded as lowly and made a joke of.

The Israelites practiced circumcision which represents a kind of payment or indemnity—a symbolic restitution for the original sin of Adam and Eve. And sexual crimes have caused the downfall of great men and nations. The rampant immorality in the Roman Empire was one of the reasons it lost its spirit and fell.

The Bible teaches us that although it is necessary for man to multiply, for those who can, it is best to be celibate. This was to be an indemnity payment for the Fall and implies that marriage has not had the complete sanction of God. The Bible emphasizes not getting married. In First Corinthians 7:38 we read, “So that he who marries his betrothed does well; but he who refrains from marriage will do better" Celibacy is encouraged because God‘s ideal was lost due to the misuse of love. Because the Fall was premarital sex, Satan glorifies this. Today‘s Hollywood stars routinely fornicate on and off the screen. One of the most famous Hollywood characters is James Bond who made premarital sex glamorous in many popular movies.

God created the universe. He is almighty. He created Lucifer, Adam and Eve. How could this tragedy have happened? God created a world of love, not regulations. God made the power of love the supreme force in the universe. Love, even non-principled love, is a powerful force. Adam, Eve and Lucifer fell because of unprincipled love. God said they would die if they fell. Only love can drive man to give his life. God had created the world so that love would be greater than laws or commandments. God created the desire in each of us to preserve our life. Suicide is anti-God. Yet the force of love is greater than the fear of death. We have all heard of men who jumped to their death on grenades to save their fellow soldiers, and we have heard of parents giving their lives in trying to save their children from a burning home. The only force that could induce Eve to do as she did was love. Her emotions and intellect were immature, and she failed to guide them properly.

The power of love is testified to throughout literature and seen in all of history. Shakespeare‘s Romeo and Juliet‘s love drove them to suicide. Hamlet‘s uncle killed his brother in order to marry his sister-in-law. And in modern history King Edward VIII of England abdicated the throne for the love of a woman. He told his nation he gave up his kingdom for “the woman I love.” Even Freud correctly saw that the sexual drive is strong enough to push people to disregard moral behavior and that the basic cause of all problems derives from unprincipled sex.

Until man reaches perfection, it is possible to misdirect his love. God gave the commandment as protection to Adam and Eve. It was special guidance until they matured and fulfilled the First Blessing of being fruitful—of reaching individual perfection.

Origin Of Evil - The Human Fall

Research Revealed Sexual Guilt
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Anthropologist Richard Heinberg in his book “Memories and Visions of Paradise” said people in every culture and age have insisted that evil had a specific cause – which the contradiction of our two minds began from a specific point. Human nature is not natural at all, because it has been distorted by some fundamental mistake or failure that has been perpetuated from generation to generation.

Heiberg studied the myths of Creation and Separation and Alienation. In every culture there is a mythical story about human origins that consistently involves humanity separated from its original purpose, falling short of what was expected, acting contradictory to a Divine command. This is a consistency image in all of the world culture.

Eating Banana cause Birth of Evil

One of the examples is a West African story. The Divine, the Creator gives a job to the sun, the moon and to man. The sun does his job and was rewarded with a place to rule the sky during the day. The moon does her job and is rewarded with a place to rule the sky at night. Man is to take a bunch of bananas, ripen them, and carry them to the top of the mountain and offer them to the Creator without eating one. But along the way, he gets hungry and he eats the banana and was casted into the pit.

Material Pleasures brought Evil

In Buddhist culture, a story of originally spiritual beings that became attracted and drawn to the physical and material sense oriental pleasures and they drag us down into this false reality.

Psychologist discovered Sexual Guilt

Carl Jung, a Swedish psychologist studied the myths and symbols expresses in our dreams and religious culture. Jung concluded that every culture has a myth of an original Fall or Alienation. This is in his famous work, Man And His Symbols. Further, he recognized that the symbols: snakes, trees, fruits and women being told not to do something until a certain time and struggles between man and woman. There are certain symbols are common to these myths, and they also recurred in dreams of human beings all over the face of the earth, what Jung called the ‘collective unconscious’. That we all have a level of consciousness that we share, even though we may not communicated, but deep inside us, we have the same original mind, sense and conscious. And Jung interestingly found in each of these stories, some sense of guilt about love, about sexuality on each level.

Evil Escaped from The Box

There’s the famous story of Pandora. Pandora was created by gods, then married to the son of god and was given a gift and told “Don’t open it, until after your wedding night.” This is hard to figure out. What was it that a woman was not to open until after her wedding night? Pandora can’t keep control of her curiosity, she opens the box prior to her wedding and evil enters to the world. These themes are common.

Eating the Forbidden Fruit

In the Bible, the Genesis story also has an interesting myth that is filled with symbolism: fruits, serpents, trees, maturing, don’t eat the fruit and you can’t eat – we’re not going into details. But simply, the simple fact before eating the fruit, they were naked and they were not ashamed. That was nothing shameful about their nose or their chin or belly button or knees. BUT after eating the fruit, they did become ashamed, but not of their mouths which has eaten, not of their hands which has stolen the fruit, but they covered their lower parts, their sexual organs, they felt shame about their sexuality. Adam and Eve’s sexual parts were the source of their shame because they were instruments of their sinful deed. In this story we see more than just the fall or separation of individuals; we see the breakdown of a family. The Genesis story represents history’s first dysfunctional family.

The Origin of Evil - Sexual Immorality

We can thus say that, the symbolical meaning of the banana, the box, the fruit is non-other than love. Love is the strongest force in the universe, but it can also be the most dangerous. The origin of fall that human caused, is because they misuse their love, they misused their sexual organ. Just like Carl Jung said in his book, because of this - a sexual guilt came about.

So what truths those these stories teach? What common lesson can we learn?

Human beings have freedom and choice. In each of these stories, the result is not predetermined by an Almighty God which is determining the play on the human stage. In each of these stories, human beings have a responsibility, a choice.

Freedom comes with responsibility. In each of these stories, we are told that human beings are just free, to live as we want on earth. But there are laws and principles, there is a divine order and we are accountable to a higher authority. Human beings are free, but with freedom comes responsibility and we are accountable to a higher authority which we can see express in the unchanging, eternal laws of the natural world.