ORIGIN OF SIN. THE FALL OF ADAM AND EVE. In these days of growing unbelief in the Bible, and even in God's word, it is the duty of those who are loyal and true to God to give their thoughts to the world in which we live; so I am here giving mine in great humility, for I shall speak of the things which are hard to understand, but which all who have any mind whatever should think out for themselves always with prayer to God for right direction. Trusting, then, that He is helping me by the whispers of the Spirit to my listening mind, I take courage to write the following. The Origin of Sin. Christ, when teaching his disciples, told them that He "had many things to tell them, but that they could not bear them then." They had so much difficulty in comprehending the Spiritual teachings of Christ, that He had to teach them by parables, and by earthly things as examples to make their earthly minds understand. But Christ did not mean that we should remain so dull of understanding, so ignorant of His spiritual teachings, "that he may run that readeth it." We are to search the Scriptures, for Christ told us to do so, because, as He said, they testify of Him. Therefore, whosoever doubts about Christ, let her first search the Scriptures, with her mind totally free from all views and dogmas and prejudices of other people. This is what I am trying to do in telling you my idea of the origin of sin, and the reason that it is, and always has been, on this earth. Christ tells his disciples that He saw Satan fall from Heaven like lightning. His words were: "I beheld Satan, as lightning, fall from heaven." Satan means Sin. To this earth Satan fell, broken to pieces. Having once been in Heaven there was within Satan the germ of the life which lives in Heaven-the spark that never dies. Satan, then, was reduced to nothing but the pulsating heart, which science tells us is the point to which they can trace back life on this earth—a pulsating heart on a muddy beach. This pulse of life, then, may have come to this earth in this way This pulse science traces back from man, through animals, plants, and other things. We can understand very well that this pulse can be traced up to mankind. We are, then, in the body direct descendants of Satan, and from him we get all sin and evil, and, besides, we get the spark of life which can not die, but which can, and which did grow stronger in mankind, until "men began to call upon the name of God," and as the spark of life grew stronger, God breathed upon mankind and gave them their Souls-the Image of God" for God is a Spirit," said Christ (whose words I shall take for the authority of what I am writing) and no flesh and blood can be the Image of God. Nothing in which evil dwells can be the Image of God-nor did God ever create anything in which were sin and evil and call it good. The story of Adam and Eve is an allegory or symbol, and we are to hunt for its meaning. Adam and Eve were the race of mankind when life evolved to the state we now have, called mankind, and to whom God gave "living souls "—" and man became a living soul." The words "God breathed upon man," when man became a living soul, were used by the writer to make us understand the invisible nature of the soul, the same as Christ said, "the wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof but cannot tell from whence it cometh or whither it goes; so is every one that is born of the Spirit." Also, when the apostles received the Spirit-or Holy Ghost-a sound like a mighty rushing wind |