It’s allegory and shouldn’t be taken literally. At all. One possible interpretation is that eating the apple symbolises the birth of empathy or understanding of other consciousness, thereby giving humans both the ability to be kind and to be cruel.
Adding on to this, god asking them not to eat it was the basic human understanding of god’s cosmic warning of the responsibility and consequences of doing so. The lesson is that we can’t trust humans to make the right choice with something so profound, hence now we have nukes. And monkeys on the firing buttons.
Yeah, all sects that believe in biblical literism need to be abandoned. If christianity were ever to be a useful religion it needs to leave room for intreptaion and creativity.
It’s allegory and shouldn’t be taken literally. At all. One possible interpretation is that eating the apple symbolises the birth of empathy or understanding of other consciousness, thereby giving humans both the ability to be kind and to be cruel.
Adding on to this, god asking them not to eat it was the basic human understanding of god’s cosmic warning of the responsibility and consequences of doing so. The lesson is that we can’t trust humans to make the right choice with something so profound, hence now we have nukes. And monkeys on the firing buttons.
Yeah, all sects that believe in biblical literism need to be abandoned. If christianity were ever to be a useful religion it needs to leave room for intreptaion and creativity.
It is extremely useful. Just not for anyone outside the inner party.
For anyone else, it’s not only useless, it’s a threat.