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Imagine
that right after briefing Adam about which fruit was allowed and which
forbidden, God had installed a closed-circuit television camera in the
garden of Eden, trained on the tree of knowledge. Think how this might
have changed things for the better. The serpent sidles up to Eve and
urges her to try the forbidden fruit. Eve reaches her hand out – in
paradise the fruit is always conveniently within reach – but at the
last second she notices the CCTV and thinks better of it. Result: no
sin, no Fall, no expulsion from paradise. We don’t have to toil among
thorns and thistles for the rest of our lives, earning our bread by the
sweat of our brows; childbirth is painless; and we feel no need to wear
clothes.
So why didn’t God do that and save everyone a lot of grief? True, surveillance technology was in its infancy back then, but ... [Emrys Westacott asks a probing question continued]
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"Hey! There's no camera -- it must be OK!"
ReplyDeletecorollary:
"Hey! There's no gubbmint safety warning! Hold my beer."
e~C
Trying to sort out whether you're the star student of the teacher?
ReplyDeleteGod don' need no stinkin' surveillance cameras.
ReplyDeleteHe's omniscient!
Of course, Eve would not have known this, since she hadn't eaten of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, yet. That means they, uh, didn't actually know that the fruit-eating thing was "wrong," yet; but I still get saddled with Original Sin.
It ain't fair, I say!
(with all due respect, of course — hey, you never know Who's listening, I mean lurking)
"Trying to sort out ..."
ReplyDeleteLet's find out! Here, hold my beer.
e~C