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The Allegorical Meaning of the Fruit of Wisdom in Genesis Concerning the Fundamental Nature of Humanity

Adam and Eve, because they secretly ate of the “fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,” had their eyes opened; they knew that they were naked, so they covered themselves with fig leaves. When God discovered that they had come to know shame, He knew that they had eaten the fruit of wisdom and discerned good and evil, and therefore punished them by casting them down into the mortal world to become human beings…… This is the Bible’s account of the origin of humanity. It is very uninteresting to talk about the conflict between the Bible and evolution; let us instead look at the profoundly thought-provoking…