Wow, you guys are
good! I love
Genesis, and I have to
strongly recommend reading it in or
translating it from the
Greek if you can. It's
purty.
What kills me, really, is that
God was very obvious about why he didn't want his
two naked monkees eating of that Tree. The
snake brings it up too. Because
Adam and
Eve were made in
God's image (well, actually, Adam and Lilith were made in God's image, and Eve was made in Adam's, but we won't go there for now), if they had the
Knowledge of Good and Evil, they would be like God (except for being
mortals). And if you remember, there was another
tree, the one that God threw them out of the Garden to get them away from it--the
Tree of Life Everlasting is what my
Torah calls it. Anyway, so God knew that if we ate the
first apple we would be only
one apple away from godhood. Obviously he didn't want that, because he
got pissed and
tossed us out of the garden when we ate the first apple.
Um...then,
thousands of years later, he sends his
only son, bearing the
same name as the serpent no less, and what does the Son want to do? Give us all
Eternal Life.
But if the
whole purpose of
human life is to
actually attain the
same state as god, why the fuck did
Lucifer get made such a
horrible example for trying that very same thing???
You know, sometimes I think I would
give my life for an actually
accurate, un-fucked-with, not-mistranslated version of the
fucking bible.