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Two Very Different Views of and Responses to Good and Evil


In my earlier email “Good Parents or Warriors Fighting a Cosmic Battle?” I pointed out that my church had taught me this:

The story of The Garden of Eden
is about a cosmic battle between God and Satan.

The ancient Hebrew text teaches something very different:

The story about two people
who did what a talking snake told them instead of doing TOV!

The events in the Garden in Eden, when viewed in the context of the first two stories in Genesis, reveal the two extremes of human actions. Read the rest of the story at --
https://mailchi.mp/94e48a0a72f7/two-very-different-views-of-and-responses-to-good-and-evil

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