Msgr Pope ping
Good article.
Man’s problem is sin. In sin, there is death.
Praise God for His love that brought us The Solution.
In Christ there is abundant life.
Nothing else is adequate.
I just attended a daylong retreat in which we covered this story to a great in-depth extent as it relates to Mary, The New Eve.
One of the points of the discussion that day was that God does not LIE. God said not to eat from the tree or you will die.
Satan LIED/Deceived and said they’d be like gods. At this point you see the actual “birth” of things like pride, lust, greed, and hoarding. And the misplacement of ‘trust’ or as I viewed it at the retreat, literally worship of a false god.
Now here is the ‘funny’ part from that day. The good Father used two props to represent the two trees in the Garden. The Tree of Life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The Tree of Life was represented as the American Flag and the tree of knowledge was an empty microphone stand.
It was an interesting discussion regarding the Father of Lies (Satan) and how he used lies to tempt us away from God and to hoard after material things of this world. And while our discussion was about Eve and Mary, I could not help but see the comparison laid upon our nation and the temptations the democrats put in front of us in the form of equality and fairness of material things.
We also covered how Adam was responsible for protecting Eve, which is what this post from Pope is trying to communicate. Where Adam failed in his duty, Joseph fulfilled with Mary by taking her as his wife. Compare the two stories and one will see the ‘undoing’ of this original sin through the salvation of Jesus Christ in the New Testament.
Like I said it was a daylong retreat and a single post can’t communicate fully the enlightened view of this.
Only have time to skim this article, but seems good. Thanks for posting.
Will be back later to read more closely.
Damn Eve. lol. Can you imagine how incredible our lives would be if she would have left that dang tree alone especially since they had tons of other fruit to eat. That once act changed everything forever.
Eve did more damage to the World than Hitler could ever dream of doing.
Ping!
They sure didn’t leave the Garden with Fig leaves over their mouths...
Excellent article! One of the best explanations of original sin that I have ever read/heard! Too often, Christians sound ridiculous when trying to explain sin’s origin in the garden. Most want to get past that, but a true understanding is required in order to see why we needed a redeemer!
Thanks for posting!
I thought it was the first time Adam disagreed with Eve. ;-)
Msgr. Pope does a terrific job...per usual.
Thanks for posting.
In the Garden of Eden,
As everyone knows,
Lives Adam and Eve,
Without any clothes.
In this garden,
Were two little leaves,
One covered Adam’s,
One covered Eve’s.
As the story goes on,
Never the less to say,
The wind came along,
And blew the leaves away.
At the sight,
Adam did stare,
There was Eve’s treasure,
All covered with hair.
And wonder came,
Under Eve’s eyes,
As Adam’s thing,
Started to rise.
They found a spot,
That suited them best,
A nice big tree,
Where they began to rest.
I only posted the clean part of the poem.....
“God,” said Adam, “Why did you make Eve so beautiful?”
“So you would love her.”
“But why did you make her so dumb?”
“So she would love you.”
A women’s lib speaker was addressing a large group and said, “Where would man be today if it were not for woman?”
She paused a moment and looked around the room. “I repeat, where would man be today if it were not for woman?”
From the back of the room came a voice, “He’d be in the Garden of Eden, eating strawberries.”
In the beginning, God created earth and rested.
Then God created man and rested.
Then God created woman.
Since then, neither God nor man has rested.
AMEN
But I do want to point out, that the methodology by which the serpent led Eve astray, in various forms, has been the prototype of the methods employed by Leftist demagogues, ever since, in leading the susceptible astray.
For a basic application of this interpretation of Leftist techniques: Variations On Demonic Theme.
I do not offer this to challenge in any way your erudite article; merely to suggest some of its contemporary applicability.
William Flax
An excellent article.