There is a need to engage
with all religious texts and conceptualize ways to re-read them; doing so will
allow for parity across society.
The Book of Genesis and the Garden of Eden.
In the beginning, the
Spirit of God was hovering over the waters; and this Spirit is what created the
heavens and earth and everything around. We forget, when we read about God, that
this notion of the Divine is not tangible, but a spiritual Being. And we have
to keep in mind that this is the central point of the Bible; namely – that Adam
and Eve would have been aware of this spiritual Being called God; the fact that
they did not find the need to cover themselves: “Adam and his
wife were both naked, and they felt no shame” – implies that to them, the
tangible aspects of existence did not really matter. What did matter was that
they were aware of being connected to God and to each other spiritually. This awareness
of the Spirit of God – is what it means to be in the Garden of Eden. They were
aware that God moved Its Spirit to create the world.
A common refrain that is
evident in the first few passages of the Genesis is the following: “and God saw
that it was good.” We are introduced to a parameter of what comprises goodness;
what exactly does it mean to be good?
The question we need to
ask is this: how can a God that is good be misogynous? It does not make sense.
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