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>I figured out the Garden of Eden the other day.
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>First. The story of the butterfly.
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>The butterfly sits in its cocoon, right?
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>The cocoon nourishes and protects the forming butterfly.
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>Then the butterfly busts loose. It flys away.
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>One day a scientist cut open the cocoon, and the butterfly escaped,
>but it didn't fly away. It just fell and died.
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>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.
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>Without exercising its wings upon entering the world, it fails in the world.
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>Ok. Now to the Garden of Eden.
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>Let's, for the sake of conversing, say that what the Bible says is true:
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>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
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>A couple of things are amiss.
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>Supposedly:
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>1. God created the whole Earth
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>and
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>2. God created Adam and Eve with the capacity to survive adversity on
>the whole Earth
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>however
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>3. He created them with minds, having the ability to make choices and
>to understand
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>yet
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>4. He wanted them to abstain from the Tree of Knowledge?
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>and furthermore
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>5. Remain in the Garden of Eden which insures their nourishment and protection?
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>What gets even stranger is that if what the Bible says is true, then:
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>6. The Devil is just an angel, and has no free will
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>thus
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>7. Lucifer's actions are not of his own will, unlike Adam and Eve's,
>but of God's will
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>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;
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>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).
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>Just as the butterfly must prove itself worthy of life as a butterfly,
>so did man (through Eve, oddly enough).