Recently, the idea of The Garden of Eden keeps coming up in books, TV, and other places for me. I am really starting to believe that it is an allegory and not a real place. More importantly, I feel like there’s a deeper meaning that I have missed all these years. Life and death existed before Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit. There was pain and sorrow, too. Good and evil existed as well. They had to exist, otherwise there wouldn’t be an evil serpent to tempt Eve. When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, it didn’t change the world; it changed Adam and Eve. God exist in the same world as we do, but somehow, He sees, knows, and understands more than we do. He can understand a world like the Garden of Eden where all things exists in harmony even death, pain, and sorrow. Having knowledge doesn’t make us godlike, it only narrows our view. That’s why during our lifetime, we must learn to surrender to God as His children, become innocent once again, and follow Him and His plan for us even though we don’t know what the plan is. The fruit was our downfall, but faith can save us.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
