We find that in life, there are fair warnings provided to each and every one of us. The choice that we have, therefore, is to listen and to be obedient to those warnings or to ignore them, often to our own peril, such as in overeating, under-exercising, not paying attention in school or to our parents, and so on. Indeed, what we become has a lot to do with whether we listen to that still small voice within. Those then who listen and are compliant to that voice are the very same who have life outcomes that are more beneficial than those who do not.
When we read Holy Scripture, we find at the very beginning that our Creator provided us with the stern warning that we were not to eat of that tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for the consequence for doing so would be death. The death that was generated from this ill-fated decision was that Adam and Eve, who previously were taking in the delights of this created world, and enjoying all the wonderful goodness of our Creator God, had thus fatally decided to leave that good garden, in which, there were no consequences to their thoughts and actions, and thus to “die” to that world, so as to be reborn into that world in which there were consequences for their thoughts and actions. This signified that before eating from that tree, there was no karma whatsoever, but after the eating, the “free ride” so provided to Adam and Eve was effectively ended, and now there would be a fair accounting of what they did or did not do, going forward, recorded onto the skeins of time. The upshot, therefore, was that each of us, as the offspring of Adam and Eve are now living in a world in which we are each fully responsible for the thoughts, actions, and consequences of what we think, do, and say.
So then, for all those that wonder why our Creator would permit all this hate, discrimination, violence, and other negative acts to occur in this world, have clearly failed to understand that the world that we live in and the rules that we play by, are the responsibility and thus the concern of all those that are here on this planet, and no other, because the eating from that tree, signified that we were now “free will” human beings, that subsequently had the conscious choice to uphold all the wonders and greatness of our Creator, or devolve into a bastardization of what we should and ought to be.
Each of us is at the same crossroads as to whether or not we prefer to be “hard-headed” and thus live within this same sort of construct, again and again and again or whether we will recognize that the only way out is the only way that we got in, which is to use our free will to uphold peace, justice, fairness, sacrifice and good which when accomplished will provide us with the key to regain our lost place in the eternal kingdom of our Immaculate Creator.