Eve, biblical heroine to be admired!
June 1st 2008 17:35
All is well in the Garden of Eden, or so it seems. The weather is always "72 and sunny," lions lie down with lambs, and life is one big frolic for Adam. He doesn't have to work much and he has universal health care. But alas, Adam is lonely. And he is wondering about the mysteries of his seemingly multi-use penis.
So God decides Adam needs a partner. He puts Adam to sleep and takes out a rib, and "bam!" Eve is born. Not as an equal to Adam, mind you, but as an afterthought of sorts. A last-minute solution to a problem. Something for Adam to busy himself with before NASCAR came along.
The website allaboutcreation.org explains to us that "The story of Adam and Eve is the ultimate reflection on humanity" and that it "explains that humanity was created in order to reflect God's glory, similar to a statue created to reflect the glory of an ancient king." How quaint! And as proof that the story is not a myth they offer this pearl of wisdom - "people can't be decedents from a myth."
And damn if that woman didn't screw it up. The very first woman creates the "fall from grace." She eats fruit from a tree right smack in the middle of the Garden of Eden, a fruit God had forbidden Adam and Eve to eat. Sounds like a setup. Eve eats, and gets Adam to take a bite or two also. God is mad as hell, and he's not going to take it. Adam and Eve are expelled from Eden and forced to scrap it out in the real world. God sentences all women to have pain in childbirth, men to have to work, and then they will die. Sounds a bit harsh, doesn't it? If the consequences be so dire, isn't like putting a gun in a kid's room and telling them not to touch it?
Christians the world over see the story as a metaphor for everything gone wrong. If not for Eve, everyone would be happy and running around naked in the Garden of Eden. I guess they don't realize that if Adam and Eve would have stayed there and not had to face death there probably wouldn't be a need for so many generations of humans to be born. Eve is the fallibility of women, their gullible nature, their tendency to get into trouble without a man around. Eve is the reason we are separated from the greatness of God, and why he had to send Jesus to save us all.
I submit that it was Eve who saved us all. Saved us from being statues decorating the Garden of Eden. Eve gave us a hunger for knowledge and the desire to struggle for explanations. If not for Eve, humanity would have been doomed to be forever infantile. Eve showed us we don't have to be sheep. She brought us into the real world, where lions eat sheep, they don't lie down with them. A world where we can strive to discover. Eve sowed the seeds for humanity to be able to one day live without God. That's what the myth of Adam and Eve is a metaphor to. Eve showed us our potential.
So the next time you hear someone talking about the "fall of man," remind them that it wasn't a fall at all, and Eve is to be admired.
The website allaboutcreation.org explains to us that "The story of Adam and Eve is the ultimate reflection on humanity" and that it "explains that humanity was created in order to reflect God's glory, similar to a statue created to reflect the glory of an ancient king." How quaint! And as proof that the story is not a myth they offer this pearl of wisdom - "people can't be decedents from a myth."
And damn if that woman didn't screw it up. The very first woman creates the "fall from grace." She eats fruit from a tree right smack in the middle of the Garden of Eden, a fruit God had forbidden Adam and Eve to eat. Sounds like a setup. Eve eats, and gets Adam to take a bite or two also. God is mad as hell, and he's not going to take it. Adam and Eve are expelled from Eden and forced to scrap it out in the real world. God sentences all women to have pain in childbirth, men to have to work, and then they will die. Sounds a bit harsh, doesn't it? If the consequences be so dire, isn't like putting a gun in a kid's room and telling them not to touch it?
Christians the world over see the story as a metaphor for everything gone wrong. If not for Eve, everyone would be happy and running around naked in the Garden of Eden. I guess they don't realize that if Adam and Eve would have stayed there and not had to face death there probably wouldn't be a need for so many generations of humans to be born. Eve is the fallibility of women, their gullible nature, their tendency to get into trouble without a man around. Eve is the reason we are separated from the greatness of God, and why he had to send Jesus to save us all.
I submit that it was Eve who saved us all. Saved us from being statues decorating the Garden of Eden. Eve gave us a hunger for knowledge and the desire to struggle for explanations. If not for Eve, humanity would have been doomed to be forever infantile. Eve showed us we don't have to be sheep. She brought us into the real world, where lions eat sheep, they don't lie down with them. A world where we can strive to discover. Eve sowed the seeds for humanity to be able to one day live without God. That's what the myth of Adam and Eve is a metaphor to. Eve showed us our potential.
So the next time you hear someone talking about the "fall of man," remind them that it wasn't a fall at all, and Eve is to be admired.
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Comment by RubySoho
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Oh man, if that isn't the most tortured logic I have ever heard. It's right up there with "if you can imagine God it means he exists because God is greater than your imagination".
Huh? Say what?
Yeah I've never understood why God, the perfect being that he is, would stick a bloody tree in the middle of Paradise that was liable to cause untold misery. And why leave the nasty little serpent alone with the impressionable humans?
And the Bible complains that Eve is to blame for our misery "because of her we all must die". Hello! In your own little fantasy world of creation, if not for her you would never have been born.
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