Why Eden Sank to Grief

Why Eden Sank to Grief
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The first sin is the most interpreted event in history. Why did they eat––and what should we learn? The wily serpent elicits from Eve the Lord’s injunction against eating from the tree of knowledge, and then:

The serpent said to the woman, “You will not die. For the Lord knows that the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, knowing good and evil.” And the woman saw that the tree was good for eating, and that it was desirable to the eyes, and delightful for wisdom, and she took from its fruit and ate, and gave also to her husband, and he ate.
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