This is my first ever repost. I’ve seen other blogs do it and today, well, it was time for one. This was originally posted last year. Part of why is that I’m just not in a funny mood right now. Not only am I bummed out by the news about Dustin Finney, but I just got off the phone with my parents, one of my cousins, Jimmy Niel, died in a car accident yesterday.
I’m not trying to bum all of you out, so let’s get on with the reposting of “Magical Fruit.”
The story in Genesis of the “Fall of Man” is a story of magical fruit. There is the fruit of the “Tree of Life” and the fruit of the “Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.” Both fruits together would make people like God by giving them both knowledge and life, as odd as this is, there is something more curious about this tale.
After Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of Knowledge, they were kicked out of Eden so they wouldn’t have access to the Tree of Life. Their death sentence for eating one magical fruit was carried out by being deprived of another magical fruit. According to this logic, if Adam and Eve had simply stopped eating the fruit from the Tree of Life then they would have still died, even if they had maintained their innocence.
If this story is true, then it is obvious that God knew that the intelligent beings he had created would have chosen knowledge over dogma (do not eat this fruit) so he built their mortality in to the system and allowed them temporary access to the medicine that would keep them from succumbing to their design as long as they blindly followed the dogma.
Talk about sick and twisted.