The Story of Adam and Eve

I am not a student of the Bible but I don't see why that should stand in the way of me expressing my beliefs about its stories.

This is my understanding of the story as believed by many Christians: God forbad Adam and Eve to eat of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. But Satan, as the serpent, tricked them into eating. Thus, Adam and Eve gained the Knowledge of Good and Evil and their God, being angry that they disobeyed, evicted them from the Garden of Eden as punishment.

This is the Cosmic Grandpa interpretation of the story: As primitive man, we found ourselves in a world where no value judgements existed. We accepted our world as we found it. There was no concept of good and evil. Our intuitive nature connected us to the vast cosmos and we knew we were an eternal part of the infinite multi-dimensional universe.

Then over earth time, our intellects developed and became dominent and we separated from our intuitive understanding of our cosmic connection. Our intuitive nature withered. We intellectually began to assign values to various aspects of our world. To each other. To everything we encountered.

No diety forbad us to develop in this direction and no satan tempted us. It was a direction we decided to explore as a race.

But it is a direction that has separated us from the understanding of who we really are.

In the bible story, we were instructed not to go there. But we chose to go anyway. So now we find ourselves in a world where fear, anxiety, anger and revenge all invade our lives eventhough they are illusions. Our justice system that assigns blame and guilt is an illusion. Good and evil are illusions. We created them ourselves. Yet we see them as universal values.

We no longer live in the beautiful garden.

But all we have to do to return there is to realize that the Knowledge of Good and Evil was created by us. It will decay along with the rest of our physical world in time.

We are. We are who we are. We will be who we are forever. There is no good or evil. We have no value. We just are.

The understanding of this reality will return us to the garden.

Let us meet up there now.