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Is there a moral to Adam+Eve?

In the book of Genesis there is the part where Adam & Eve live in the garden of Eden. All the food they need just grows on trees there and they don't need clothes. They eat the forbidden fruit and get banished.

There is plenty of ancient wisdom in the bible, but I don't remember what this part represents. I think it has something to do with resisting temptation.

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  • Pancho
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Yes, there is a moral but in our present corrupted age, no one understands it anymore. "Adam" & "Eve" refers to early homo sapiens. I'm so sorry to see that you take this story literally. Its largely symbolic. And there is no talking snake, either. That also is symbolic. And the lesson to be learned from it (for those who know how to read the story) has to do with learning to live in a state of spiritual bliss. The "forbidden fruit" refers to something rather metaphysical, which is why almost no one understand the story. The early peoples lived in a high state of spiritual bliss. The word "eden" means "delight." The reason modern corrupted people can't grasp the point of the story is that it says that they (the early peoples) lived in a spiritual bliss that was beyond the pleasure of sex. Today almost 100% of the population believes that sex is the highest pleasure and if you try to tell them that there's something better, they just laugh at you. "Eve" (representing emotions) gave into the physical temptation (the snake represents the "kundalini," the energy coiled up at the base of the spine) and so "Adam" (representing reason) rationalized it and little by little, the human race began to live at lower and lower levels, and today that's what we have -- people who believe that sex is the highest pleasure, having forgotten completely about "samadhi," spiritual bliss. Graham Hancock refers to us as "a species with amnesia," and he's absolutely right ...

  • 8 years ago

    You trust and obey God you will live forever ( in Heaven now, in the garden of Eden then). You don't you will die. Simple moral. Simple story.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Yeah. Don't write sh!tty fiction. It will come back to bite you in the $$ every time.

  • 8 years ago

    Women should never buy apple products

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Yes when writing a fairy tale at least make it good and readable.

    Source(s): Atheist and lovely to!
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