Otherwise known as the Big Whoops Chapter. This is the chapter where Adam and Eve choose to disobey God and eat from the tree of good and evil. I've read this chapter many times in parts and had this chapter preached at me as well. I have never seriously focused on what I was reading however. I didn't get until this time that there were TWO trees in the Garden of Eden. One was the tree they were not supposed to eat from. The Good and Evil tree. But God never told them not to eat from the Tree of Life, aka the Tree of Eternal Life/Immortality. After Adam and Eve were cast out, God put an angel with a flaming sword to guard this tree so that no one would ever find the tree of immortality. Which I concluded then was still on Earth somewhere, hidden from man's eyes. This must also be where humans have gotten the stories of the Fountain of Youth, and other eternal life stories...etc etc. I never thought about that before. God cast them out of the Garden so that they couldn't eat from the tree and live forever. So I wonder if being away from this tree is what caused Death to enter the world. Who knows...it's possible.
Also, this chapter kinda miffed me a bit. This is the chapter that misogynistic males try to use to insist that women are somehow the inferior sex. They blame the entrance of sin into the world on Eve, and thus on her female descendants. However, and I noted while reading that Adam was right stinking next to her as it happened. He did nothing. He didn't speak up or say that he thought it was a bad idea. Nope, he was worse than Eve. He was a sheep. Eve was deceived by the dude who invented lying, but Adam just went along with it. If anything, he was guiltier than Eve. They were both in the wrong to disobey God, but it really pisses me off when people try to lay the heavier blame on Eve. They were both equally guilty. It really doesn't matter who actually picked the fruit from the tree, they both ate it. Anyways, the woman got the worse deal afterwards. Increased pain in childbirth. Thanks....thanks a lot.
Conclusion: Adam and Eve shared equal responsibility in the introduction of Sin into the world. Also, there is a tree of immortality chilling somewhere in the Middle East....guarded by an angel with a fire sword.
Also, this chapter kinda miffed me a bit. This is the chapter that misogynistic males try to use to insist that women are somehow the inferior sex. They blame the entrance of sin into the world on Eve, and thus on her female descendants. However, and I noted while reading that Adam was right stinking next to her as it happened. He did nothing. He didn't speak up or say that he thought it was a bad idea. Nope, he was worse than Eve. He was a sheep. Eve was deceived by the dude who invented lying, but Adam just went along with it. If anything, he was guiltier than Eve. They were both in the wrong to disobey God, but it really pisses me off when people try to lay the heavier blame on Eve. They were both equally guilty. It really doesn't matter who actually picked the fruit from the tree, they both ate it. Anyways, the woman got the worse deal afterwards. Increased pain in childbirth. Thanks....thanks a lot.
Conclusion: Adam and Eve shared equal responsibility in the introduction of Sin into the world. Also, there is a tree of immortality chilling somewhere in the Middle East....guarded by an angel with a fire sword.
I never really thought about it like that. Well done!
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