Throughout the story in Genesis, human was created by God in his image and it was flawless at the beginning. Until Adam and Eve got tempted by serpent to eat forbidden fruit, then God punished them and kicked them out from the garden.
Ever since then, human race was considered sinning and carried this sin until now.
That's what the Christian theology interpreted the story at least, and fall of man is a strong belief throughout Jewish and Christian history. Even today.
Ever wonder there are more to this story? I did.
Since the first time i start reading bible, I became very interesting on what happened in Eden Garden and want to understand what "forbidden fruit" really means.
Genesis 2New International Version (NIV)15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
Bible had a description of that fruit, it is from "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil".
After that serpent said to Adam and Eve:
Genesis 3New International Version (NIV)4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God,knowing good and evil.”
I still remember my feeling when I read these verses first time.
I was thinking if the forbidden fruit is simply about knowledge of good and evil, then it doesn't sound so bad isn't it?
And what wrong with that to have the ability to pursue knowledge?
To be continued - A Controversial view on Genesis
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