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Eve

Eve As I wondered through the garden I grew curious as I approached the tree in the middle of the garden. I knew that I was not supposed to partake of the fruit from this tree but I didn’t completely understand why. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil did not seem like such a bad tree. After all, didn’t God want us to be knowledgeable? As I was standing pondering on this question the serpent popped his head out of the tree. He said to me, “Did God say, ‘You shall not eat from any tree in the garden’?” I said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it, or you shall die.’” But the serpent said to me, “ You will not die; for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 3:1-5) I thought about this issue for a moment while I examined the fruit closely with my eyes being careful not to touch it. The fruit was beautiful so I picked a piece and ate. Adam came up and I gave him some of the fruit and he ate. Instantly we both realized that we were not clothed properly and we found leaves and sewed them together Later on that evening we heard God walking through the garden. We were both scared and we didn’t want him to see us naked so we hid behind the trees. God called out and asked us where we were. Adam answered him and told him that he hid because he was afraid because he was naked. God then asked Adam who told him he was naked and asked if he had eaten fruit off of the one forbidden tree. Adam quickly explained that he had done nothing wrong and I gave him fruit and he ate it. God then turned to me and said, “What is this that you have done?” (Genesis 3:13) I told him that the serpent tricked me and assured me that I was doing nothing wrong by partaking of the fruit from this forbidden tree. I also told him that I only wanted to do my best to please him and I thought maybe the purpose of my life was to be knowledgeable. I see now that this life is not what I desired and I was better before I was embarrassed or even knew what embarrassment was. Adam never helped me out one little bit and the only things he could mumble were about how I made him eat the fruit and how it was even God’s fault before it was his because God created me. I did not feel so terribly bad about eating the fruit. I knew that at least now I would know the difference between good and evil and try to stay away from that which was evil. In the beginning I was like a child; running around naked, naive, innocent, and carefree. True, the serpent did trick me by asking me questions I felt obligated to answer and he did make me doubt God’s words for a moment. I still couldn’t blame everything on the serpent as Adam was Eve’s reaction to the questions God asked her was consistent with what our answers would most likely be today. We would most likely have longer answers to such simple questions with more lies. Adam and Eve did the typical thing by blaming someone else for their mistakes but I don’t think anyone blames them for messing up. Even if they hadn’t eaten off of the tree there would have been some descendants down the line who Bibliography:

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