What I don't understand?
Genesis 2:16-17 shares, “And the Lord God commanded the man, “'You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.'”
I am a modern man of 21st century. Once I thought to read Bible. I managed one from my nearest Church. There at the begining times how was everything was created when I read it I was like what I have studied science can't be imbued with the words of Bible. Day and night was created without sun and moon. What kind of day and night was that?.
Anyway, whatever another surprising fact that was the phrase mentioned above. The Command not to eat . This really was shocking. At that point, I was like , what the hell , I am modern man I know psychology. When I command someone not to do. Then I know in near future it will be done. Did this fact was not known to God?.
If he is God and knows everything then why he commanded not to eat. But it is clear that God wants Adam to eat the fruit. It was intention of God. But we are blaming to serpent who made Adam to eat. It wasn't the serpent who made the whole scene but it was God himself.
But your Church never blame God. As you know I am modern man, I compare things with modern time and I am free to blame God. But when I ended the story of Adam , Eve and serpent. I was amazed by the story. I closed the Bible with the end of story. I never went any further. Because now what was about the Bible was cleared. Till date I haven't turned any further.
Today I am gonna say, what I understand from that story:
Story/symbolized
- Garden : childhood
- Knowledge of fruit : adulthood
When we are born, we are in the garden of God, no misery , no worries like utopian world. But as we grow , then God made us to eat fruit that symbolize we start to know the world. We will gain knowledge about how is everything going on. This is the point that when we have knowledge we are thrown to the world of misery. Now box of Pandora opens . In life, we can only grab blissful moments for a glimpse of time. This is what we deserve because we have taken the fruit of knowledge.
Now, what we need. We need to earn in our adult time. We need to collect money. Do marriage in around 20-30 years. Have children and This and that..
This is what your Bible story symbolized in my perspective. And I find it incomplete. The story would had made some sense if at the end again Adam was back to garden.
If we study carefully our lives then at the age of 14-17 years we eat that fruit and after 70+ most in case our brain stops to function normally. That is most of oldy ones are found to be behaving as child. This is clear sign that symbolized that there is the way of Adam return.
But in my opinion, it was there at the original text but it is discarded with time. Because if there is return of Adam to garden then people won't see any reason to follow the words of God. There won't be any relevance of church around in periphery.
To be honest, I have never tried to turn pages of Bible again. Because I realized it that now what can be there more important than this story. This story is what all the religion talks about religious life. Either you worship God or not , do praying or not, go church, temples, gumba or not there is always a return. Whatever we do in this world have to be drop down in order to return.
If you can't drop it down then there is no return , this is what we call the never ending the cycle of life and death. Adam must return to the garden. This is what the message of every religion.
This is the message of every religion.

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Note: what I write is mine views and options. It has nothing to do with others. As you know I am a modern man with a joke.