Read The Bible wrote:
>
> > Risto Karttunen said on May 12, 12:06 am:
> > [Re: Adam & Eve]
> > Sooner or later they were going to do what they
> > did. We humans are curious.
>
> It wasn't curiosity that did Eve in, but a subtle
> deception by the serpent (2 Corinthians 11:3).
>
I see the serpent as the embodiment of that curiosity (or
consciousness). But it is interesting in itself that there was a
serpent rather than a goat or a duck.
>
> Eve was snookered because she didn't know that even
> gods can die (Psalms 82:6-7).
>
Yes, that's how our consciousness deceives us. It does not want to
look at its own mortality.
>
> (...)
> > Risto said:
> > I understand that you like to preach. But it is a
> > matter of interpretation what the Bible is thought
> > to teach.
>
> Most of what the Bible teaches is quite plain, so
> that no interpretation is needed; and those teachings
> which are not so plain are usually made plain by
> comparing them with other, similar teachings in the
> Bible (Isaiah 28:10).
>
Some interpretation is always needed when reading texts which are
several thousand years old. The reader has her own background,
culture, language, knowledge about history etc.
--
risto
