Kicked out for an apple?

March 9, 2014
Kicked out for an apple?
(Today's lesson from the Hebrew Scriptures: Genesis 2 & 3)

According to Gaspar Stephens, who went to divinity school before, as he said, he got religion, there are questions you can’t ask the Bible. Particularly, you can’t ask a Bible story about anything that’s not in the story. Example: You can’t ask what God was thinking, when in the hills above Zoar, Lot’s daughters got their father drunk − two nights in a row! − and . . . . You can’t ask what God was thinking, because God wasn’t there, in the story.

          That sure takes some interesting questions out of play, like “What was God thinking when Lot’s daughters . . . ?[1]

Or, what was God thinking when . . . ?

          After creating all the world and all that's in it, he put in a garden.  He hired a man to look after it.  He took a woman from the man and gave her to him. 

          And he gives the man and woman one rule: Thou shalt not eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which is in the middle of the garden.

          In their fall, we fell all.  Our first sin was we disobeyed a dietary law.  And for this . . . ?

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[1] But more about them, Missy (Miriam) and Rack (Rachel) another time.