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    Bible As It Should Be
    Bible As It Should Be
    Bible As It Should Be
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    Bible As It Should Be

    By Martin Esterhazi

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    How is it possible to ask explanations from God? How can anyone, ask the Creator "How did the forbidden fruit get in the Garden of Eden," without sounding blasphemous? Which out of the following two would be preferable? A God who designed on His own the conflict of good and evil, or another one, who, unfortunately for man, is not powerful enough to keep evil away from him?

    “The Bible as it should be” dares an approach of the human origin of God, the unwanted paradise and the untold 10 commandments. According to Martin Esterhazi, the purpose of his book is not to provoke, although he believes it will be misundestood by fundamentalists. It isn't to change anyone's way of thinking either, so, he uses to ask its readers to take the theories developed in its pages mostly as food for thought rather than as facts.

    This book is a personal attempt to identify the real esssence of the God from the writer's own perspective. Bust most of all, it is an honest effort to open a genuine dialogue between himself and God.

    You may like or hate this approach. You may agree or disagree with this way of thinking. In Esterhazi's point of view, that's not the point. You see, what matters is to think. This is what the purpose of this book is.

    So, think... Controvert... Believe.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMartin Esterhazi
    Release dateOct 2, 2015
    ISBN9781310595288
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      Bible As It Should Be - Martin Esterhazi

      BIBLE

      Copyright © 2015 Martin Esterhazi

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the publisher. Short extracts may be used for review purposes, with permission.

      BIBLE AS IT SHOULD BE

      By

      Martin Esterhazi

      At the source of my inspiration

      and creativity. Thank you Maria.

      Table of Contents

      The Question

      God

      Religion

      Faith

      Hell

      Death

      The 10 Commandments

      1. Enjoy

      2. Love

      3. Share

      4. Forgive

      5. Err

      6. Repent

      7. Thank

      8. Research

      9. Create

      10. Resume

      The Existence

      Epilogue

      The Question

      God. The supreme power. The true Light and Salvation. The Creator of everything, doubtless… Doubtless? That's what we were taught, at least... Thus they say. And if they say so, it must be true... Right? I wondered how my life would be today, if since I was a child I would not have believed in God, or if my grandmother would not have taken me with her to church on Sundays, and if I had challenged the famous story of the first humans, that I was taught in school.

      God created the world in seven days, He molded Adam and Eve, and left them to live free in a beautiful garden with all the goods, asking for one thing only: Not to taste the forbidden fruit. Of course, as we all know, they disobeyed, and were expelled from the Garden of Eden. The story took its own way and today, the world is rather different than what the Lord planed. As a child, I was unable to understand how humans can be conquered by so much greed, to not be content with everything the first humans had at their disposal, and to seek out sin as the only thing that they are not allowed to acquire.

      Later in life of course, I realized that nowadays there are people so greedy, which make the ancestral sin resemble a faux pas... Consequently, other, more difficult questions arose. Questions which for many years, I consciously avoided to ask myself… Questions that created guilt: How is it possible to ask explanations from God? How can anyone, ask the Creator How did the forbidden fruit get in the Garden of Eden, without sounding blasphemous? Did the Lord want to test the loyalty and dedication of the first humans, or simply was the creation of the world not as successful as we think? Did God place the temptation in front of Adam and Eve on purpose, or was it that He simply wasn't able to keep it away to protect them?

      Suddenly, I realized that I was not entirely sure about the answer I wanted to hear. If God set the forbidden fruit where it was available to them, does that mean that He Himself created evil? Since He created the creation, maybe temptation is also His own creation? And if this is not true, then, maybe the creation is not as impeccably made as we think? If God created the Garden of Eden for humans and the temptation slipped into it against His will, then the result of

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