So I grew up in a very religiously open home but went to an extremely religiously strict school (run by the CRC church). As a result, religion has always been a little battle with myself, but I still love it so much. Ahah even though my opinions have become maybe even more open than the ones in my home and I doubt I'd be able to last a week at my old primary school without offending anyone :P ANYWAYS, over the years I've come up with many theories on different stories, a lot of them around parts of the Bible I don't particularly agree with. I have two about the Garden of Eden; this is one of them.
Every time I read it, I can't help but be grateful that Eve took the fruit. I know it's the 'original sin' and not supposed to be a good thing at all, but it's what makes us us. As humans, we are guided by our sense of right and wrong, good and bad. It's where our conscience comes from. The knowledge of good and evil is one of the greatest things people have. If Even hadn't eaten from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, we would all be like children forever. While it was a wonderful time as a child, I trully appreciate knowing right from wrong... it's where opinions come from and where would the world be without opinions? They are such wonderful things! And all of this is credited to Eve. So why is it considered a bad thing? Why was it so bad they got kicked out of the Garden? True, if she hadn't eaten the fruit, we wouldn't know good from evil and therefore wouldn't need it, but why wouldn't we still want it? That fruit gave us the best gift ever. I couldn't imagine life without it.
Anneke SS
