I sure am writing a lot this morning.
Here we draw inspiration again from the Transformed Wife, Lori Alexander, who always has something interesting to talk about. Here, she talks about the former wife of Joshua Harris, the “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” guy. Shannon Harris talks about her experience in the Christian Church, the Adam and Eve story, and her interpretation of it.
First, let’s just take the Adam and Eve story as total fiction. But, even as fiction, it has certain themes and narratives.
Adam is in Eden and everything is fine. But, he is a little lonely.
Eve shows up. The story suggests that she is somewhat inferior to Adam, being created from his rib.
Eve is tempted and deceived by Satan.
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
This apple sounds a lot like … feminism!
“You shall be as gods” = “You can have it all!”
“the tree was good for food” = you can earn money at a career (????)
“pleasant to the eyes” = seems, on the surface, like a good idea.
“desired to make one wise” = appears the be wisdom.
Maybe, Eve has sex with Satan, and becomes pregnant with Cain (the first murderer).
All is not well in Eden.
Adam is not deceived by Satan, but he also agrees to eat the fruit,
Maybe he also adopts Feminist dogma to be agreeable with this wife?
In any case, Adam errs by following his wife’s leadership, even though he knows it is a bad idea.
You have to admit, there are a lot of interesting things in this story, even taken as a simple fairy tale.
Now, here is Shannon Harris:
My church and their brand of churches interpreted the creation story very literally. God created Adam, and then Eve. Women are second. God created Eve from Adam’s rib, so she’s not her own person. She’s been made from a piece of Adam. God gives Eve the job of Adam’s helper. She didn’t have her own purpose. And then, Eve is curious. She listens to the serpent and she trusts herself, and she becomes wise, and that’s seen as bad. She gets punished for her wisdom.
She becomes wise! She gets punished for her wisdom!
Ummm … maybe she was deceived by Satan? Isn’t that the story?
Is there any evidence of Eve showing any form of wisdom? There is not. Rather, Eve admits that the Serpent deceived her.
And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
There is a little hint at the end that, after a loooooong series of hardships, man will eventually come to know Good and Evil, and develop wisdom.
And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
And so we see that women can’t even make sense of a funny little fable like this, only a few hundred words long.
And in doing so, we can see that indeed women are easy to deceive, just like the story says. They just make up any sort of nonsense.
You go girl!
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