Not another Bible-blog!

I often think of the Fall, if we could have progressed hadn't it happened? If it was really what God had in mind for mankind as I tend to believe?

Did it hit the woman right after she tasted the flesh of the fruit that there was one single rule God had given, and that she had just broken it and was bringing a curse to herself, her descendants and the Earth itself?

It is kind of sad that the Man cannot even keep one single commandment and not mess up his entire world.

I wonder what kind of knowledge the man and the woman suddenly had and also what life was like before the Fall.

I will always wonder why God put these forbidden trees in the garden in the first place! I mean, if you don't want people to use something you have, you are not going to bring it to their house, are you? So maybe, like some believe, God knew exactly what was going to happen, and it was necessary to make the humans fall and go through the school of life.

I think God wanted them to fall. Creation was perfect, and all the animals were blameless. So it must have been Satan who entered the serpent. And when God cast Satan away, he knew what he could end up doing. God could have destroyed Satan, but he did not. There was a role for Satan to play, and he's playing it. It all ultimately is for God's glory.

To me, the humans -souls held in a tabernacle- were like children who just could not remain in their innocent state: they had to grow up, they had to learn how to walk, and they had to fall to learn how to get back up and become grown-ups. This is my idea, but the text does not say anything about that...

The couple were still vegetarians, so when God gave them garments, was it the first violence on animals, skinned to give their fur?

I also invite people who wonder why God allows sufferings, sickness, and death, wars, famine and all sorts of evils to consider how it all began. The answers are in the text. Mankind brought a curse upon itself and the Earth, and our actions generate problems, and problems can turn into pain and disasters. Think about that next time you hear people say: "If there was a God, my grand-father would not have died", or "If there was a God there would not be children starving in Africa", or "Where was God when that tsunami or that earthquake hit?" If your father lovingly tells you not to do drugs, but you do drugs anyway, one cannot blame your father for your becoming an addict. The people affected, friends, family, or the people whose house you broke into to steal to get your dope, cannot possibly blame your father for the bad things happening to them. Besides, all that misery does not mean your father stopped existing...

Because many people reject the origin of your world and the reason for mankind to be, they lose sight of the divine spark in them, they become the beasts they believe they descend from. What's more, because they reject Genesis, they fail to understand why they are here for, and why the God they hear say is good and loving lets so much misery have its way.