The Bible's Big Lie: God's Creation Was Not Originally "Very Good"

by Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer



The world-renowned Christian theologian, Reverend Matthew Fox, recently presented the following statement on his "Daily Meditations" Facebook site: “Even the story in Genesis begins not with the human but with light; and then all the other beings; and lastly humans. And it was called as a whole, ‘very good’.” In a comment of mine to this statement of Matthew's, I first responded with this countering statement: "The Bible also says: 'the earth is firmly fixed on foundations and shall never be moved.' The earth is actually moving very fast around the sun."

The Old Testament God's statement found in Genesis 1:31 that claims the creation, at the time of its completed origins, was "very good" is a lie. It is a worse lie than the Bible's lie that claims "the earth is firmly fixed on foundations and shall never be moved."

It is a worse lie because the central dogma of the Roman Catholic Church and an essential doctrine of all Christian churches depends on it being true for their authenticity. This is not the way it was with the scientific discovery of a moving earth. The scientific discovery of evolution and its long brutal history proves that it is a lie: that God's creation was originally "very good".

As an essential doctrine, the Christian churches believe and teach that there is (1.) a single God who is flawless, and that (2.) this one true God created the universe flawless... and that, therefore, (3.) God truthfully said in Genesis 1:31 that His creation was originally "very good."

The Christian's "Creator" Old Testament "God" is flawed, just as was the creation at the time of its origins. This is what the early century Gnostic "Christians" believed and it's also what the Eastern religions believe and teach: that the direct creator of the universe (the lesser of two creator Gods) is flawed, as is also the creation, and was so from its origins. Both Gnostics and Hindus believe that there is a flawless supreme God (for Gnostics, this is the New Testament God) who is the ultimate source of the creation and that there is, also, a direct creator of the universe (for Gnostics, this is the Old Testament God) who is flawed and should not be worshipped.

St. Symeon wrote: “Neither Eve nor Paradise were yet created, but the whole world had been brought into being by God as one thing, as a kind of paradise, at once incorruptible yet material and perceptible.”

St. John of Damascus wrote: “The creation of all things is due to God, but corruption came in afterwards due to our wickedness…For God did not make death, neither does He take delight in the destruction of living things” (Wisdom 1:13). But death [for animals and humans] is the work rather of man, that is, its origin is in Adam’s transgression.”

St. Ignatius Brianchaninov wrote: “Plants were not subjected either to decay or to diseases; both decay and diseases and the weeds themselves, appeared after the alteration of the earth following the fall of man.”

St. Basil the Great wrote: “…it is customary for vultures to feed on corpses, but since there were not yet [before Adam’s sin] corpses [animals were bodily immortal], nor yet their stench, so there was not yet such food for vultures. But all [animals] followed the diet of swans and all grazed the meadows…[none of] the beasts were carnivores…such was the first creation, and such will be the restoration after this.”

Genesis 1:30 reads: “…and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to everything that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food;” and it was so..." In the "first creation" all of the animals were vegetarian. Then, according to the Bible, the first human ("Adam") sinned causing the creation to fall into "the bondage of corruption," which caused many animals to become carnivorous. The Bible says this "bondage to corruption" negative situation will come to an end. Romans 8:21 says: “the creation itself,” will be “delivered from its bondage to corruption." Likewise, the Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church says: “Jesus came to restore creation to the purity of its origins” (CCC, n. 2336). Isaiah 65:25 says: The wolf and the lamb shall graze together; the lion shall eat straw like the ox,..." So, according to the Bible: when the "restoration" occurs all the animals will be vegetarian again.

U.S. Catholic Bishops wrote: “The whole Bible is spanned by the narrative of the first creation (Gn 1:3) [which was “very good,” because all of the animals were bodily immortal and vegetarian, until Adam sinned] and the vision of a restored creation at the end of history” (RV. 21:1-4) [When all of the animals will be bodily immortal and vegetarian again.]

Every human being on earth today is a Homo sapiens. We are Homo sapiens who originated in Africa around 300,000 years ago. If there had actually been a “Garden of Eden” where a single couple (“Adam and Eve”) lived, it would had to have been divinely created on earth HUNDREDS Of THOUSANDS of years ago in Africa, and HUNDREDS Of MILLIONS of years of animal evolution would have already taken place.

Those hundreds of millions of years of animal evolution that occurred before we Homo sapiens came into existence were very corrupt. They were corrupted by a lot of animal deaths (making available many corpses for “vultures” to eat), sickening deadly diseases and devastating natural catastrophes. There were several mass extinctions of animals. Many vicious carnivorous animals existed. Every animal eventually died, often in a violent and cruel way. It was a brutal “survival of the fits” world then, as it still is today.

The creation was never “good” or “very good,” as falsely claimed in Genesis by the Old Testament “God” Yahweh, and, consequently, neither was the creation ever “pure,” as falsely claimed by the Roman Catholic Church. The creation cannot be "restored to the purity of its origins" because it was not pure at the time of its origins, and therefore neither can, nor will, there be a "new earth" and "new heaven," nor will the "just" be resurrected and live forever, "world without end" on the falsely prophesied future "new earth."

Gnosticism And The Creation

Early century Gnostic "Christians" believed that the story of creation found in the Bible was a lie told by the Old Testament God and that the supreme God, the New Testament God, was not actually the one responsible for the creation of our world, at least not directly. The early century Gnostics and all Gnostics throughout the history of Gnosticism have claimed the evidence of this comes from the imperfection, tragedy, and evil in our world. A good God could never have created it.

Some ancient forms of Gnosticism concluded that for God to be truly good, He had to be pure Spirit and could not have created a material universe. Therefore, a lesser god, an emanation from the true God, must have created it. The God of the Old Testament (Yahweh) was that emanation and was called the demiurge, a lesser god than the ultimate God.

Stephen A. Hoeller, a modern-day Gnostic Bishop wrote:

"All religious traditions acknowledge that the world is imperfect. Where they differ is in the explanations which they offer to account for this imperfection and in what they suggest might be done about it. Gnostics have their own -- perhaps quite startling -- view of these matters: they hold that the world is flawed because it was created in a flawed manner."

"Like Buddhism, Gnosticism begins with the fundamental recognition that earthly life is filled with suffering. In order to nourish themselves, all forms of life consume each other, thereby visiting pain, fear, and death upon one another (even herbivorous animals live by destroying the life of plants). In addition, so-called natural catastrophes -- earthquakes, floods, fires, drought, volcanic eruptions -- bring further suffering and death in their wake."

"Many religions advocate that humans are to be blamed for the imperfections of the world. Supporting this view, they interpret the Genesis myth as declaring that transgressions committed by the first human pair brought about a “fall” of creation resulting in the present corrupt state of the world. Gnostics respond that this interpretation of the myth is false. The blame for the world’s failings lies not with humans, but with the creator. Since -- especially in the monotheistic religions -- the creator is God, this Gnostic position appears blasphemous, and is often viewed with dismay even by non-believers."

"Ways of evading the recognition of the flawed creation and its flawed creator have been devised over and over, but none of these arguments have impressed Gnostics."

All human souls were created by the eternal infinite Spirit before the world was created. At the time, our souls were together as One Divine, subordinate-to-Spirit, God. We as this God committed the real "original sin," which caused this corrupt-from-its-origins material universe that we are living in to come into existence.

Hinduism And The Creation

Paramahansa Yogananda, revered by many as the father of Yogi in the West, wrote: The word 'God' means the manifested, transcendental Being beyond creation, but existing in relation to creation. Spirit existed before God [Brahma]. God is the Creator of the universe, but Spirit is the Creator of God."

There are two stories associated with why Brahma, the direct creator of the material universe, is not worshiped by Hindus. The stories are called "the curse of Shiva" and "the curse of Saraswati."

One curse states that Shiva (Spirit) cursed Brahma (the created God) when he found him lying to prove his greatness. Lord Shiva became furious at this lie. He then cursed Brahma that "he would never be worshipped."

The other curse states that Brahma created a goddess, Saraswati – the goddess of knowledge. He then sinned by lusting after her. Saraswati then told Brahma: “You [the flawed creator] have filled the world [this corrupt world] with longing/lust that is the seed of unhappiness. You have fettered the soul in the flesh. You are not worthy of reverence [meaning, not worthy of worship]."

The New Age religion is a blend of the Hindu and Gnostic religions. "One of the founding figures of the modern New Age Movement, David Spangler, wrote: The world soul is usually conceived as a "formative force," an active, intelligent, purposeful spiritual presence at work in the material world to guide and guard the course of planetary evolution. It is generally not accorded the status of being the ultimate source, or Creator [the eternal infinite Spirit], but might be looked upon as a great angelic or archangelic being [or Brahma, who sinned and became less-than divine] presiding over the well being of the world, or as the gestalt, the wholeness of all the lives and patterns that manifest upon, and as, the earth." Brahma, the flawed creator, created the flawed material universe by becoming the earth and the entire cosmos.

Modern-day scientific discoveries confirm that the Hindus, Buddhists, Gnostics, Theosophists and New Agers got their theology right on the "originally corrupt" vs. "originally pure" creation topic. The Christian churches are, therefore, believing in the flawed, less-than-divine, creator's, Bible scripture lie (the lie that says the creation was originally "very good"). The Old Testament god is not worthy of worship and the Christians who worship him are committing idolatry.

Christians believe that they will eventually be living in an everlasting material world -- the "new earth" and "new heaven" -- and that they will have resurrected glorified, flesh and blood bodies. Roman Catholic and Orthodox believers, as well as some Protestants, believe the entire material universe that we are now living in will become the "new earth" and "new heaven" when the universe is "restored to the purity of their origins," or, when “the creation itself,” is “delivered from its bondage to corruption” (Romans 8:21).

Hindus, Gnostics, Buddhists, Theosophists and New Agers seek to spiritually transcend this material world so that when they physically die they will go to a heavenly place where they will never have to be reincarnated into this world again. They believe that when all humans become enlightened this corrupt material world that we are living in will come to an end.

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Ancient Hindu scriptures say the earth is round and moving. And they also say the sun is located at the center of the solar system.