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What Will You Do With the Wound of Betrayal?
A Garden of Eden Lesson
Back in 2017, my father was in the ICU during the days leading up to his death. Seeing him under those circumstances was emotionally draining. There is something about sitting beside a hospital bed and watching someone you love struggle that changes the way you think.
During those visits, old stories and memories kept coming back.
One of the memories that came to mind was a conversation my father and I had about the Garden of Eden.
He pointed out something about the story that I had never considered quite the same way before.
The Fruit and the Choice
In Genesis, we’re told about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. My father pointed out that there was a single fruit involved, but that the knowledge associated with it could ultimately be used in different ways.
His point was similar to looking at two sides of a coin.
The same knowledge could become an instrument for good or evil depending upon what someone chose to do with it.
Adam and Eve made a choice, and that choice changed their world.
Whether you approach the Genesis account as theology, history, metaphor, or some combination of those things, there is an…
