The Garden of Eden

A while ago I read a book called 'Job: A Comedy of Justice', which takes on as a premise that God is real, but he is a bastard. Thinking back on the book recently I was grappling with its core issue, that of faith, and I had something that was to me a revelation. Maybe (and most probably) this revelation has been mentioned before, but I can't recall reading or hearing about it, so I'll pass it off as mine until proved otherwise.

In my revelation, I thought of the Garden of Eden, faith, free will and critical thinking. Now, according to some dictionary quotes, and the majority of people I encounter using the word, Faith is believe without proof. And for us to enter heaven, we are required to have faith in God (amongst a few other things).

In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were cast out for partaking of the forbidden fruit. Was this fruit free will and critical thinking? By utilising these skills that are either God given or evolved, I find it rather hard to have faith in God.

If God as written in the Bible does exist, then it is not a far jump to credit him with creation as well. He would also be responsible for Free will and Critical thinking. If we use these God given ability, we run a very good chance of been refused entry to heaven. So, to me, they are the forbidden fruit, if we just have faith (everything else in the garden) we will be allowed to return to Gods side. If we think about things, question, investigate, we will be punished.

Thats assuming God exists. And if he does, then he is either a bastard or needs to get himself a new P.R. department.

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