Sin and death

[Bucky Ball]

The great Doctor of the Church, Thomas Aquinas, said (I think it was the "Compendium, 
that the reason the tempter went to Eve first, was that "the light of reason shone less brightly" in her.

Eve: "Yahweh says this fruit is fatal within twenty-four hours of ingestion. Snake says it will not affect our longevity at all, but it will instantly confer an education in ethics. They can't both be correct, by the law of non-contradiction. I want to start human trials to find out who's lying, but the two of us, we're it right now as far as the human population goes."

Adam: "You eat it if you want to. I don't think we're supposed to eat it."

Eve: "I need you to eat it also to rule out any sex-based differences in the reaction.  Ideally I'd also have a control group and feed 'em dates or something but I have to go with what's available right now."

Adam: "Okay."

The gods say "they will attempt to become as one of us, knowing BOTH good AND evil". Eating and not eating. Not possible in the human condition. Chaos. Not order.
The chaos defeated in the Babylonian slaying of the Dragon of Chaos, ("Marduk Slays the Dragon od Chaos") is again readdressed.  
(ie return to no choice of ONE thing over another in this myth), is a return to chaos.