Does this Make Sense to You?

[brewer]

The apple removed god's imposed neurochemical lobotomy. He got to see reality.

Source of the "an apple a day" saying.

[Rhondazvous]

I remember a priest tried to explain the allegory of this to me about 10 years ago...

He said it was indicative of "criticism" people levelled at the church for preventing access to knowledge and thus a metaphor for god being the 'keeper' of knowledge away from unenlightened man.

He said that he interpreted it a different way, and believed that god was protecting us from shame and guilt. That our 'nakedness' was our vulnerability as a people being manifest.

I actually thought that was a cracking explanation - but when you then have a church who have done nothing BUT ram shame and guilt down the throats of people for around 1500 years now. The church views humanity's nakedness as an excuse to pour scorn on people's vulnerabilities - when god was allegedly protecting us FROM those vulnerabilities.

Flawed logic, doesn't even begin to describe that.

You put priest in the same post with nakedness! Oh damn. Well, maybe Minimalist won't see this thread.

[Minimalist]

You have to remember some xtians think Adam and Eve is a parable to be interpreted ....

So its obvious, the bible is informing man to wear clothes when eating fruit as its embarrassing to get fruit juice on your bollocks .... case closed

You really have to be in a creative position to get fruit juice on your buttocks, and I think it takes two.

Don't knock it till you've tried it!

[Minimalist]

I remember a priest tried to explain the allegory of this to me about 10 years ago...

He said it was indicative of "criticism" people levelled at the church for preventing access to knowledge and thus a metaphor for god being the 'keeper' of knowledge away from unenlightened man.

He said that he interpreted it a different way, and believed that god was protecting us from shame and guilt. That our 'nakedness' was our vulnerability as a people being manifest.

I actually thought that was a cracking explanation - but when you then have a church who have done nothing BUT ram shame and guilt down the throats of people for around 1500 years now. The church views humanity's nakedness as an excuse to pour scorn on people's vulnerabilities - when god was allegedly protecting us FROM those vulnerabilities.

Flawed logic, doesn't even begin to describe that.

You put priest in the same post with nakedness! Oh damn. Well, maybe Minimalist won't see this thread.

Too late.

[The Grand Nudger]

Man wanders around blissfully naked, like a child.  Man goes into the bushes with a naked girl...gets a mouthful of something tasty, and emerges from the bush knowing something about himself and nakedness that he didn't know before.  In quicktime, god shows up to curse the man with a job and the woman with pregnancy.

So remember, kids, keep it in your pants. Once you know about it, you're accountable for it....and didn't I tell you not to do it?

[Drich]

This just occurred to me and it’s crazy when you think about it.

Adam has just eaten the forbidden fruit and he hides from god. But he doesn’t hide because he ate the fruit. He hides because he’s naked.  Now wait a minute. He didn’t become naked after he are the fruit. God created him that way. And god knew there was something shameful about being naked so he hid the fact so Adam would not realize the truth about himself until after he had eaten the fruit.

So here is Adam trying to hide his nakedness from the god who created him naked. Makes perfect sense, doesn’t it?

.... Your almost there.. Keep thinking...

So, if Adam were naked.. So was eve right?

So then what happens to young men when they see their first naked girl?



Maybe THAT is what Adam was trying to hide.

[madog]

This just occurred to me and it’s crazy when you think about it.

Adam has just eaten the forbidden fruit and he hides from god. But he doesn’t hide because he ate the fruit. He hides because he’s naked.  Now wait a minute. He didn’t become naked after he are the fruit. God created him that way. And god knew there was something shameful about being naked so he hid the fact so Adam would not realize the truth about himself until after he had eaten the fruit.

So here is Adam trying to hide his nakedness from the god who created him naked. Makes perfect sense, doesn’t it?

.... Your almost there.. Keep thinking...

So, if Adam were naked.. So was eve right?

So then what happens to young men when they see their first naked girl?



Maybe THAT is what Adam was trying to hide.

Procreate ... wasn't procreation a part of your fictional Gods original plan?

[Edwardo Piet]

Yeabut he's a prude that God cunt.

[Nihilist Virus]

This just occurred to me and it’s crazy when you think about it.

Adam has just eaten the forbidden fruit and he hides from god. But he doesn’t hide because he ate the fruit. He hides because he’s naked.  Now wait a minute. He didn’t become naked after he are the fruit. God created him that way. And god knew there was something shameful about being naked so he hid the fact so Adam would not realize the truth about himself until after he had eaten the fruit.

So here is Adam trying to hide his nakedness from the god who created him naked. Makes perfect sense, doesn’t it?

Don't forget that Adam and Eve were unaware of good and evil until eating the fruit, and then were punished for eating the fruit. But I like your take on it, I hadn't seen it that way.

[Rhondazvous]

.... Your almost there.. Keep thinking...

So, if Adam were naked.. So was eve right?

So then what happens to young men when they see their first naked girl?



Maybe THAT is what Adam was trying to hide.

Procreate ... wasn't procreation a part of your fictional Gods original plan?

Maybe procreation didn't involve fucking back then. Maybe they did it through osmosis or something.