to, you know, supplant the man and to be like a man. And it's also rebuked to the man who in the

garden, his sin was to not be a guardian and a steward and to be lazy. So Adam was slothful

and let the serpent tempt and deceive Eve. But Adam has more responsibility because Adam

knowingly transgressed, whereas as Paul says, the woman was deceived.

So both parties in the fall share culpability, but the man is who lacks, didn't live up to his stewardship responsibilities.

And thus in the fall, God says to the woman, you will attempt to try to be the man.

And the man will try to be lazy and fall back.

So there's always this temptation since the fall.

But these Eastern religions don't believe that.

There is no fall.

They just look at the world as it is, which is fallen.

And then they deify the principles within the existing fallen world

as if that's only manifestation of Atman or Brahman or the deity.

So everything becomes relativized, right?

Because there's no good and evil because what you're calling evil

is also a manifestation of God in this world, because this world is God.

So all the manifestations of what happen are the many deities, which are also a manifestation of the one deity.

Yes.

So evil is just another side of what the overall God is doing.

Yes. And so Buddhism specifically, the world is evil, and creation is evil just like Gnosticism,

and the only way to escape this samsara or the cycle of the wheel of reincarnation and suffering is nirvana, which is

obliterating your self and becoming merged into some kind of blob of God, right, called

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