At 02:56 AM 22/12/2005, Stan Zaske wrote:
God placed the "Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil" (apples you know) in the garden and then made sure that Adam and Eve knew about it. He knew that Satan would go to the garden and tempt Eve. He knew that Satan could charm the chrome off a steel bumper and that Eve would easily succumb. He knew that Eve could talk Adam into anything simply because the "little head" is more powerful than the "big head". Clear so far?
The Gnostics believed that the story is backward. The snake is God and "God" is Satan. Makes a hell of a lot more sense that way, but it does mean that the real god is weaker than Satan.
T
