Episode 2: The Answer
(Episode 1 is here.)
When we left this true life adventure, I was minding my own business, sitting with my sister in a Bible study in church in Minnesota. I had just been asked this question: Why would God have put the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden?
I thought about passing this hot potato on like another student had already done. I knew that not everyone would agree with my answer. But I do think about these things. And I can’t resist a good discussion, so I replied.
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I don’t remember my exact words, but they were something like this. “I believe,” I said, “that God planned from the beginning for humankind to fall, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was put in place as one of the means of the fall.”
I think I heard a couple of gasps from the class. Then the teacher responded and that’s where things got twisted.
And I’ve never been one to waste a good cliffhanger.
Update: Story continues here.