Discovered on November 25, 2011
A Quora thread on Etz haDaat tov V’ra, the fall of man from Genesis the first book of the Jewish and Christian Bibles.
Some responses worth reading:
“The question exhibits three further imprecisions about the fruit of this tree.”
— A close look at the question at hand.
“Genesis is just one of many attempts on the part of early man’s collective unconscious to narrativise a growing awareness that our species.”
— English gentleman Stephen Fry’s response.
“God did not want us to live forever in fear and shame, He needed to heal the self-inflicted wounds from the knowledge of good and evil before eternal life would be a gift.”
— Brother Francis Thérèse of Salvador da Bahia Mission
Related: On the Marionette Theater. In search of grace in adulthood, the burden of self-aware.