That the very first sin described in the Bible was prompted by a childlike curiosity to "gain knowledge" should have been enough to prompt any half curious reader of the Bible to slam shut the book immediately.
But it never does.
And it never does, because the very same childlike curiosity that is infamous for having killed an inestimable number of cats in the world, not only lead Adam & Eve to loose their privileged access to Eden, but is what likewise drives the Christian ever on in an obsessive, and sometimes even fanatical, quest to find and to "know" their God.
The very same "sin" of childlike curiosity that lead the "original sinners" to lose heaven on earth, in other words, is precisely the same means, and according to the book of Matthew is indeed apparently the only means, by which the Christian can enter the kingdom of heaven.
For as it says in Matthew:
"Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."
And what is a child if not insanely curious about their world, and even their own father? And what's more, what child would not leap at the opportunity to become more like their papa?
But when Adam & Eve sought to do just this, and to become more "like God," they were punished for trying to do so agaisnt God's wishes. And they were punished so severely, in fact, that God not only cast them out of hearth and home with all the heartlessness of Ebeneezer Scrooge, but promised to hold a grudge agaisnt their offspring forever after.
Worse still, if the Bible is to be believed, the "final solution" God comes up with to fix this mess is not to simply "forgive" the children of those "original sinners," as he commands everyone else in the world to do, but to concoct a plan that would ultimately wind up getting his own son brutally tortured and gruesomely killed!
And all of this, so that the "son of God," which the Christian proudly presumes must have been Jesus, could deliver a message that, to enter the kingdom of heaven, we must be like Jesus (i.e. God).
Put simply, we are called to be like God, to overcome "original sin," which humanity inherited from Adam & Eve, when they tried to "be like God." And the plot thickens further when you consider that the same quest to "be like God" that caused Lucifer, "the most powerful and beautiful angel in heaven," to fall, is the very same quest that Jesus comes to earth to preach to his followers.
Hence, to read the bible is to "eat of the tree of knowledge," which is why the Church is such a serpent that it entices its followers to "eat flesh" and "drink blood," because at the end of the story, we discover that Jesus Christ is really Keyser Söze.
And all of us, are simply sheep being lead to slaughter.
Amen.
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