In "The Creation of the World and Other Matters" by Arthur Miller, God and Lucifer have a conversation about the problem of Adam and Eve enjoying life and the garden, but not reproducing.
Lucifer suggests that the problem is that everything is equally good to Adam and Eve, and the only way to get them to reproduce is to make them understand sex as being BETTER. The only way to do this is to give them the forbidden fruit, which God patently refuses to do. Lucifer rationalizes that in commanding him not to do so, God is incorporating some kind of reverse psychology, and takes it upon himself to enact his remedy to the situation.
What I get is that God intends is the balance in relationships between humans, a balance between humans and the earth, and a trusting relationship with God.
So the issue here is not sex but rather, trusting God [The command is to increase in number and subdue the earth 1:28]
Lucifer suggests that the problem is that everything is equally good to Adam and Eve, and the only way to get them to reproduce is to make them understand sex as being BETTER. The only way to do this is to give them the forbidden fruit, which God patently refuses to do. Lucifer rationalizes that in commanding him not to do so, God is incorporating some kind of reverse psychology, and takes it upon himself to enact his remedy to the situation.
What I get is that God intends is the balance in relationships between humans, a balance between humans and the earth, and a trusting relationship with God.
So the issue here is not sex but rather, trusting God [The command is to increase in number and subdue the earth 1:28]
If we make the case that alienation began when they first had a desire to know what God knew; good and evil etc., then implied in this story is the idea that the man and woman felt some alienation before they ate of the fruit.
V 4"...or you shall die." We are spiritually dead, when we lack love and trust.
The Bhagvagita shares this with us:
"If one ponders on objects of the sense,
there springs attraction;
from attraction grows desire,
desire flames to fierce passion,
passion breeds recklessness;
then the memory--all betrayed-- lets noble purpose go,
and saps the mind, till purpose, mind, and man are all undone."
V 5 The serpent, is a creature which we recognize as both dangerous and cunning [to many of the OT prophets women were not that far behind in either category]. The "hook" in the sales pitch is "you shall be as gods" with the ability to distinguish between good and evil.
The serpent had no real power except to give a voice to their sense of inadequacy by saying, ‘you’re not enough the way you are, created in the ‘image and likeness’ of God – you’ve got to make something of yourselves’. The trade off for exploring is this: Give up your trust in God for greater knowledge, and you can be one of the deciders, the judge over good and evil!
Since the serpent already of knows about good and evil, is the serpent "like God?"
(NOTE : Everything up to this point God has called ‘good’; so where is the evil going to come from? )
Since the serpent already of knows about good and evil, is the serpent "like God?"
(NOTE : Everything up to this point God has called ‘good’; so where is the evil going to come from? )
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