Exiting Eden


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Perhaps the answer to the old question of why truly Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden is right in the verses of the Genesis book: 
"And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us,  to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore, the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden,  to till the ground from whence he was taken." (Genesis 3, 22-23)
God wanted to prevent his creations to become other gods. He obviously did not favor competition.
                                                                                                              

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cablepoderoso said…
mm well the bible is a book full of secrets. I refer that is a book that led people to kill or keep up his/her spirit only for their understanding or in what way people interpret it.This is religion, a delicate topic, what we can only do in my opinion is to supposed. And whats is writing there is interesting, it really make me think a lot. Mmmm why a GOD that is the everything is so cautious or fearful, maybe what you are saying is correct. I remember that the apple, that Adan and Eva eat, represents the fruit of wisdom and the angels and God have the fruit of the life. That is because at both started to feel shame, because that is the way the human being is, Unperfect,we feel fear about everything we don't know. Lets compare, when Adan is put in the paradise with all those animals which were unknown for Adan, he only started to putting them names. What could be the human reaction for that case?, well Im sure that one of us will be running for everything at the start. So maybe that's why God feel that way to "take care of us" because he is obtaining a repentance position about he/she did to us. Finally my thinking about God started to make me repentance for all what I already write :/.
August 2, 2012 at 11:32 PM
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