I've been reading about Adam and Eve story for research on a novel I'm writing and found out some amazingly interesting things and people's opinions. The bible can be interpreted in so many ways and so many people don't bother having their own and instead stick to the one they have heard it is. I wonder how many people own a bible compared to how many people have actually read it. It just makes me think, hard.
For example:
The 'forbidden fruit' wasn't so much a real tree as a set of actions. MAKES SO MUCH MORE SENSE, RIGHT?
Also in the figurative sense-- it wasn't ever written as being an apple, but it is ALWAYS an apple.. because one guy decided to paint it as such, because he needed to paint something there.. and it probably wasn't a time when one could just make things up. So, we all have believed that there were apples on that tree, because this one guy decided to paint an apple when drawing the tree and the couple and so that's become the history, but he is the one that changed it, so who's to say what other parts were just interpreted into something to make explanation easier?
Also, Eve is portrayed as the 'bad guy' for lack of better words, but who is to say that Adam wasn't the one who should be blamed for being kicked out of paradise? [not to mention.. we wouldn't know we were in paradise if we were there, so people blame these two 'people' that may or may not have existed - I feel like I'm smiting God when I write about how he and these people may not exist - for us not having a great life, but we wouldn't know our lives were great if we were there anyway! so why not just be happy with what you have, you never know, maybe we were saved from something worse] I just thought to myself 'I wish I could write better so I could portray my ideas better,' but why do we live like that? Where we only think about what's wrong and not what's right. ANYWAY, I'm off topic. Maybe Adam was at fault for being kicked out, [or neither is Muslim culture, they are forgiven and sent to earth as representatives] Because Adam blames God for the situation. He says that the woman that GOD put there gave him the fruit, therefore it's both God and Eve's fault, whereas Eve just said that the serpent told her it was ok. Maybe it was Adam's lack of responsibility and not Eve's 'betrayal' that got them 'kicked out.' Other readings say it was Adam's fault, but why 'fault.' I like the representatives version the best. Why is life a punishment? It's a treat, a privilege, a miracle. I cannot comprehend how we are alive, let alone able to think and communicate and create. look at me right now. Writing my heart out for the rest of the world with internet.
I have to come to a close as I have plenty of other things to do tonight and also am suffering from food poisoning, which isn't relevant, but I would like to mention because why not share misery?
-- side note: I wonder how much less our pain would be if we didn't share it. I think it would be less and more. More because we wouldn't know that other people felt the same. Less because we would be thinking about it less. --
So, I'm out :)
Update: still working for government, clients scare me, going to school full-time and working full-time starting Sept 6. got accepted to go to Indonesia and Prince Edward Island for Canada World Youth, but had to deny them, been working on July NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month-- although it's in the states, so it's really 'International'), 1 year anniversary for CISV Seminar Camp on July 8th I believe,
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