Eve And The Apple

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Eve and the Apple

No one completely understands the ways of God. Many of us can come up

with our own opinions, and justify his ways in our own minds, just as Milton did

in Paradise Lost. Just as Adam and Eve, we all are gifted with free will and

the responsibility of making important decisions and choices in our life, which

will determine our future. But we may well ask ourselves today, of what use

would this free will be to us if we did not know good from evil? When Eve ate

the apple in the Garden of Eden she had two different voices telling her what to

do. God had said that Adam and Eve may eat any fruit from any of the trees in

the Garden of Eden except for the tree that contains the knowledge of good and

evil. Satan (disguised as a serpent) told Eve that she would not die from

eating that fruit, that her eyes would be opened, knowing both good and evil.

But at the time Eve made her decision, she did not have the knowledge of good

and evil. Eve did not know the serpent could be Satan incarnate, nor did she

know that her desire to become a goddess would be a sin.

The main reason Eve eats the apple is because she wants to become a

Goddess. The serpent said that he was a beast and after eating the fruit from

the tree of knowledge of good and evil he became more human like. Eve was

enticed by the words of the serpent who said that "If the fruit makes a serpent

like a man, it should make men like gods." (Line 710: "That ye should be as

Gods, since I as man, Internal Man, is but proportion meet; I, of brute, human;

ye, of human, Gods.)

Other arguments that the serpent used to manipulate Eve included; 1,)

You shall not die, look at me, I have touched and tasted and I have not died.

2,) Should man not be allowed a fruit that a beast has? 3,) How can God's

tree give knowledge out against his will, if he already knows all?

Eve also states that by God forbidding the fruit he made it more

desirable. While contemplating whether or not to eat the fruit, Eve wonders,

why the beast did not die after eating the fruit? Why should such intellectual

food be reserved for beasts? But her main reason for eating their fruit is to

acquire greater power, to become a "goddess". She tells Adam that "it was a

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