Wow, Buck, pretty good, but you left out the best part. Gen 3:15: " And
I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and
her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."
That established a foreshadowing of the release from the "curse of the
Fall" with Jesus, a "seed of the woman". I think maybe that's where "The
Passion" got the idea for the opening scene where the agonizing Jesus
stomps on the snake. (By the way, among Bible-based movies, the one most
faithful to the original text).
Also, Buck, it wasn't the "Tree of Knowledge". It was the "Tree of
Knowledge of Good and Evil". See, if they would've just obeyed and so
stayed ignorant of that knowledge, maybe we could still have been
running around bare-bottomed like they did. However, we did get a better
deal with Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday.
We are meant to have lots of knowledge. "My people suffer for a lack of
knowledge".
- Alan
"First, a question: What is God's purpose and
how does that relate to our lives?
An argument can be made that the familiar lines from Genesis 3:17-19
answer this.
'...cursed is the ground for thy sake
in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life
Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee
and thou shalt eat of the herb of the field
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread
til thou return unto the ground
for dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return.'
I apologise if my memory has failed me on the precise wording, but the
context is clear (humanity is cast out of the Garden to suffer for
eating of the Tree of Knowledge.)
--buck
