By Martin LeFevre (Scoop)
...“And the serpent said unto the woman, “Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”
Was the writer of Genesis, which contains passages of great spiritual power and poetry, telling a children's story? Or was his meaning subtler, “more subtle than any beast of the field that the Lord God had made?”
“The day thou eatest of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt surely die,” God said. Something died all right that allegorical day in Eden, but it was the bliss of ignorance in the animal state.
Disregarding the claptrap about the Bible being the literal “word of God,” what was the author of this narrative, entitled “Punishment for Disobedience” in the King James Version, attempting to convey to people?
Clearly, humans did not become human until we ate “of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.” Therefore, prohibition and punishment make no sense.
Nor does it make sense that humans became human by disobeying God's command that they not eat from that metaphorical tree. Why does the writer of Genesis have a serpent tempting humans to become human, thereby beginning the journey to “be as gods?”
God's alleged injunction was clearly meant as a warning: 'Begin down this path and you cannot turn back.'
Darkness has two aspects; but evil has only one. There is both an individual and collective content to darkness. The individual content is all the negative things we've inherited through our families, lineages, and cultures.
This is the accumulation of fear, hate, envy, violence, and prejudice that we've absorbed, both as 'original sin' from childhood conditioning, and from our own unaddressed negligence and wrongdoing.
Collective darkness, on the other hand, is the sum total of the harmful content within a people, and human consciousness. Evil is the intentional component of collective darkness. ...
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