God as one creative power

This is where I disagree with you, because I believe the duality is two or more different forces.

The presence of Jesus supports my position, I do believe.

As well as the original sin, the fall of man.

We have a supernatural character, at least to us. He creates a perfection. 

It's human and inferior to think perfection is flawed. We think of perfection as flawed because we're human, and we're taught such. Shakespeare, Tolkien, just about all the most celebrated writers reveled in "fair is foul and foul is fair", just in different words.

I see the Bible as a puzzle, with Genesis One the key.

If the duality is one good God, he isn't "good". He's a tyrant, as many of the detractors claim. There may have been eight  righteous men in Sodom, but not ten, so those eight are burned with the unrighteous. The prophet who was tricked into eating by a liar was killed by a lion, but not the liar. There's no justice or fairness in that. I've heard the arguments from preachers to the contrary, but they fail miserably in their excuses.


However, if there are evil principalities, and I'm sure you believe in evil principalities, they were always out to blemish perfection, and to falsely accuse.

Hence, we have Genesis in the first chapter, detailing the good God giving the humans a perfect Eden.

So, the serpent, who may be Satan or just another evil principality, blemishes the perfection. It is stated that the fruit is of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If Adam and Eve did not know the difference, then they couldn't be at fault for their sin in partaking of the fruit, simply because some principality with more power, gifts, talents, abilities, authority, and resources tricked them. If you work for a person with more gifts, who makes you believe that pushing a button will open a door for starving people to get nutritious food, but in fact it sends a nuclear missile to kill a hundred thousand struggling, starving people, you cannot be held responsible for pushing the button. The principality is guilty, not you.

Yet three important things happen after Adam and Eve eat the fruit that causes their fall.

1. A character appears claiming to be God, yet not acting like the good God, because he blames them for what the serpent does. True, he punishes the serpent, also, which probably only means the serpent is a lesser demonic being. But that doesn't make it fair to blame the innocent for what the guilty trick them into doing. 

2. The character ejects Adam and Eve from the garden and issues curses, again not in conforming with the actions of a good God. 

3. Since then, even though humans have allegedly the knowledge of good and evil, History shows they are more confused than any animal on that very issue, which means the fruit caused confusion, not knowledge.



We then get a History of hateful leaders. Some steal from their own brothers. Some are willing to murder their own sons and daughters. Some arrogantly put themselves over their brothers. Some murder their own men to steal their wives. Speaking of which this very King David, the big hero of the Old Testament, God's anointed and favorite, is perhaps the only character in the Old Testament who goes to his deathbed with the unforgiving heart, as he issues the decree to make sure a subject is killed for throwing rocks at him long ago.


Then we get Jesus. Why is he here? If the playground of this "world" is from one creative creature called God, who is himself a duality, then the rules are made by him after the fall. This is not in adherence with any good God or any good Holy Ghost.

Instead, the rules are made by the evil principality or principalities. Satan or demons. Satan, in arrogance, rigs the rules to the extreme so he can't lose, which is why Jesus is sent. It is the way around Satan's "catch 22". But only the demonic being would make such a horrid "catch 22" to begin with.


We also have the Acts of the Apostles to illustrate the confusion. During the life of Jesus, he does only good. He heals, saves, brings back from the dead.

Yet almost the very first thing Peter does with his "gifts" is call upon a spirit to murder two people who don't give him everything they have. They tested his spirit, and they were proven correct, because the Holy Ghost of Jesus "saved" not "killed". Jesus never killed any Roman soldier, even those who whipped and crucified poor subjects. 

Thus, the spirit called upon by Peter could not have been the Holy Ghost, and Peter was the best of the lot, which meant that the enemy still managed to breed confusion in this world. Not the good God. The enemy.



Add to this that if this dualism of Agnosticism is correct, it would be thwarted through History by the evil powers. And indeed we see that. It is never organized to the extent that major religions are. If it was incorrect, Agnostic dualism would be the leading belief, and the supported one. But its very essence means that we always doubt what appears to be correct, so the Agnostic dualism believer would never partake of any persecution or witch hunts, because the Agnostic knows that the evil principalities always work to accuse the innocent. 


With all this in mind, to believe God is the one creative power with dualism in itself, would mean God's character would be more "Jethro Bodine" than "Jed Clampett". He'd be flailing in his own little world. This is possible, but it hardly resembles a worthy God.