As I contend in my latest book release at Thistle/Flinch editions, the Biblical story of the Garden of Eden goes much deeper than the traditional children’s telling or, for that matter, the conventional interpretation that focuses on disobedience and a teaching imposed much later, the one known as Original Sin.
The surprisingly short Creation story – the second one in the Bible, actually – is one of those texts that just won’t let go of me, and the new layers of understanding just keep on surfacing.
The other morning I was struck by a consideration of what the Forbidden Fruit might be in our own time. Nowadays we could consider things like global warming (more accurately, climatic instability), overpopulation, or nuclear arms proliferation, just for starters – things caused by our own curiosity and consumption, one way or another. Each bears an ultimate warning, “and you are not to touch it, lest you die.” Each one is a negative consequence of advances that seemed good at the time they were introduced.
So here we are, in a situation very much like Adam and Eve in the aftermath, looking for direction and restored balance.
For my earlier musings on the original text, take a look at Eden Embraced. I’d say it really is all about the timeless human condition.
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This sounds wonderful. Thank you. I’m so glad you have a book! Is there a link to the publishing website?
A click on the Eden Embraced in the text will take you straight to the ebook. For the site itself, the Still More in the toolbar under Jnana’s Red Barn has a link to the Thistle/Flinch volumes. Thanks for asking.