Why the concept of "no beginning" is so important?
Is there a "beginning" in the universe?
or, there is "no beginning" of the universe?
This is the most important point in all religions and all philosophies.
Because this question leads to hope.
If there is no hope for human beings, terrible things will happen.
If the end is a final destruction for all, then what is the point of living?
If there is no beginning of the universe, that means there is no ending of the universe.
If there's no ending, there will be no final destruction.
There will be hope in the future.
The Jewish idea about the end of the universe is pessimistic.
To write a story about beginning and ending is easy.
You need only to design a plot: in the very beginning, there were only one man and one woman, and they have no clothes, what happen next is simple imagination. the plot could go on easily.
But this story is a killer of "hope".
The story cannot kill the future of the universe, but the story can take away your hope.
That is the source of modern wars and unhappiness.
Philosophy is important.
Politics with the right philosophy can lead to success. But politics with wrong philosophy will lead to war and failure.
That is why the Genesis is leading a wrong way for all Western religions.
And that is strange why the follower of Jesus would put the Genesis into the Bible 300 years after the death of Jesus.
There was no "Bible" in the time of Jesus.
Those Bible editors were nails on the cross.
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