About Peter
I grew up in a traditional Christian household: fear-based, full of guilt, and very negative. There wasn't love, just the ever-present fear of punishment.
These days I try to practice love., that's all. One doesn't need a religious upbringing or a set of beliefs. Love will suffice quite nicely, thank you.
Our collective great failure is to neglect our imagination. When you hear or read that we are, at heart, a very creative species, believe it. We are constantly affirming and confirming our belief system(s). It doesn't matter what we are believing, the Universe will confirm it soon enough.
And that is the crucial point of Genesis's "Fall of Man" metaphor: be careful what you believe in!
It's not whether Adam and Eve existed. It's what they believed: that they were not like God. They believed it, so they ate the fruit in order to be like God. Today, millions believe that they were "born in sin" and cannot do good apart from God. Why? Because this belief has been passed down for generations, taught to Seminarians who became high priests and pastors in order to perpetuate what essentially is the genesis of all lies.
If you believe this lie, you literally cannot do good simply because you believe so! Be careful what you believe in.
This is where your story and mine picks up from each day: what do you choose to believe today?
