Garden Sin of Origin (audio version)
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Before sin, Adam and Eve walked and talked with God, freely and openly—no boundaries. Suddenly God sets limits.
“Don’t eat of this tree.” “This tree is My space.”
Suddenly love defines differently. No longer you = me or me = you in womb-like comfort. Homey oneness get a push away to make room for ego-separateness, for self, for one’s transcendent mystery, for God’s transcendent mystery.
For Adam and Eve, womb-like intimacy gets a jolt and ego is born infantile.
“Poor me, God is not sharing everything with me. God must be holding something back so He can be over me. I am deprived. Let me eat of the tree and I shall be like God.”
Original Sin—Invading God’s Space…Violating Transcendence?
“Do not eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.” Was it a test? Or was God defining Divine space—the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Was this never meant to be our space?
Was eating of this tree an unintentional effort to cross boundaries with God…an unconscious effort to blot out the loneliness of self and vanquish it by invading the Other? If so, eating of this tree was denying God’s Otherness, an attempt to steal into the unique mystery of the other justified by the childish whim that love must have no boundaries. Love with boundaries was something Adam and Eve could not yet understand.
Ego boundaries were the one thing God couldn’t give Adam and Eve.
Ego must discover its own separateness and come to honor it.
Presumably, God could have forgiven Adam and Eve and allowed them to remain in the Garden, but how could Love do that? The Garden was no place for ego development anymore than the womb is place for such development.
Adam and Eve needed an environment where they could experience themselves as separate from God in order to learn a sense of unique and individual self.
Without knowing that, they could never understand how to relate with God as adults.
And certainly God had no mind to keep them ever-children.
O Happy Fault! Garden Sin of Origin, O HAPPY FAULT!
by Sister Lea
Rite Beyond Rome 
I do not see people as “sinners,” but rather they are learners, slowly learning. God does not dispense “mercy,” because God is not displeased with us.
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Trulee, thanks for your comment. Yes, we are all learners for life and God is not a dispenser!
I think you might enjoy the book RELIGION WITHOUT RELIGION by John D Caputo. 😊
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Adding the voice helps to create visual images just as they did in the original oral tradition. A lot is lost when we “read” the word of God. “Blessed are those who hear the word of God”, they shall grow up.
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Reblogged this on Who GOD is Not and commented:
Maybe God sees our Bible Story of Adam and Eve very differently than we think it to be…
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Love you
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