I figured out the Garden of Eden the other day.


First. The story of the butterfly.

The butterfly sits in its cocoon, right?

The cocoon nourishes and protects the forming butterfly.

Then the butterfly busts loose. It flys away.

One day a scientist cut open the cocoon, and the butterfly escaped,
but it didn't fly away. It just fell and died.

Turns out, the actual act of busting loose from the cocoon strengthens
the butterfly's wings before entering the world to the point where it
may survive it.

Without exercising its wings upon entering the world, it fails in the world.



Ok. Now to the Garden of Eden.

Let's, for the sake of conversing, say that what the Bible says is true:

1. God created the heavens and the angels
2. God created earth
3. God created Adam and Eve with free will
4. And God placed them in the Garden of Eden
5. God told them not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge
6. The Devil told them it was OK
7. Once having eaten from the Tree of Knowledge, they are banished
from the garden and sent unto the whole of the Earth

A couple of things are amiss.

Supposedly:

1. God created the whole Earth

and

2. God created Adam and Eve with the capacity to survive adversity on
the whole Earth

however

3. He created them with minds, having the ability to make choices and
to understand

yet

4. He wanted them to abstain from the Tree of Knowledge?

and furthermore

5. Remain in the Garden of Eden which insures their nourishment and protection?


What gets even stranger is that if what the Bible says is true, then:

6. The Devil is just an angel, and has no free will

thus

7. Lucifer's actions are not of his own will, unlike Adam and Eve's,
but of God's will


The only reasonable conclusion is that God's original plan all along
was for man to roam the Earth in its entirety, and to possess the
fruits from the Tree of Knowledge;

But not until man exercised the ability to make choices, and to choose
on the side of desire and self-interest (qualities necessary for
surviving in the harsh reality of mother nature) and curiosity (a quality necessary for real knowledge).


Just as the butterfly must prove itself worthy of life as a butterfly,
so did man (through Eve, oddly enough).