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The difficulty we have these days is coming to terms with which religion is the right one if in fact any of them are right at all. One only has to consider each of the major western religions to see the myriad divergences that have come to be with the passage of time. Christianity, Judaism and Islam are three principal religions that derive from a similar monotheistic base with Abraham at or near their root, yet how far apart can three religions be? Additionally each has their divisions within professing that their view is the right path to God. Within each branch of religion there are then countless variations preaching from the same premise.

The dilemma arises within the Bible itself as it has perpetuated the variations. If one is to consider the first book of the Bible the Book of Genesis, and if religious devotees were true in their beliefs, God in his infinite wisdom created the earth as it was in the Garden of Eden. It was not his first intention that the world should be as it existed outside the Garden. So what has gone wrong? Man erred of course in that Eve was first tempted to seek that which was the prerogative of God and led Adam to also eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge and aspire to be like God. Before that Man had neither shame nor guilt yet on gaining the knowledge of God they first decided that their nakedness was shameful. From that point on however as they were cast out of the Garden of Eden, the Bible has applied layer upon layer of amendments to the original concept of life on earth as God supposedly created it. God has reportedly had to intervene numerous times, even as the Christians would have us believe, that he sent his only son to die for our sins.

If those that espouse a religious point of view were true to their belief in God and all that he represents, then they would revere that single model of religion that He himself created, not the latter modified versions that have been added to and modified to contend with the constant folly of man.

Throughout the ages the contentions of the faithful has been that they have been approached by God to proclaim an amendment, The passage of Lot, Moses' journey to the mountain to receive the Ten Commandments, Jesus to die on the cross to atone for our sins, but none of that has more credibility than a belief that the first option is in fact that which we should aspire, to live our lives as God intended, at peace with nature in the Garden of Eden.

Religion is no longer the word of God. It has become the word of God that different men throughout time have selected passages to represent the true path not registering of course that what they preach has been modified to deal with their own faults. God gave us his perfect world as he designed it and it is on that contention that all religions that have evolved have lost their legitimacy immediately after Man departed from the Garden of Eden.

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