How Sin Came to Earth

Many centuries ago, there were no idols of god. God appears as a bright light, and not seen with naked eyes. His shadow projects on the ground and seen. People could worship his shadow and ask him anything. He appears at morning of every day.

One day a woodcutter chops down a tree and sits down for a break. He wonders what to do with the tree. An idea strikes him. ‘God appears only at morning of everyday, if I carve his shadow off the tree trunk, we could worship him throughout the day’. He carves the shadow of god, and takes it to the village. The villagers start worshipping it.

As usual, the god appears in the morning and sees the villagers worshipping the shape of shadow made of tree trunk. He becomes angry and leaves, never to return. Years pass by.

One day, one villager wants to lend some money to another. He takes him to the place where the shadow is, and gives the money to another being the shadow as witness. Then they leave the place. On their way back, the lender thinks ‘before the god was everywhere so if I do anything wrong he would see me but now he is in one place, how could he see me if I do anything out of the place he is present’. Therefore, he beats up the borrower and takes the money. Lender rushes to the village and says to the villagers that the borrower betrayed him. Villagers believed the lender.

That is how people started doing sin. Believing that the god is in one place and not everywhere.