@HexHammer,
HexHammer;142464 wrote:Uhmmm ..it was because of the serpent that lured the naive Even to tempt Adam with the apple, that we now are intelligent, wise and knowledgeable! People just think Adam and the serpent was evil, because they'r not very bright, naive and stupid ..filled with group think!
Wasn't much of a group at that moment; it was either Adam and Eve or Sepent and Eve. The choices are equal if the deciding criteria is how many persons are involved.
Besides, thinking is not an end in itself. Even the mission of Bacon's Great Instauration was to return to Eden. We are thinking our way back to Eden but perhaps at a higher level if we ever get there...aye there's the rub.
These things said, I often side with gnostic readings of the story. Still, maybe it's just not that simple - not so simple as the stupid vs. the knowledgable. It was only the knowledge of good and evil that they gained at the price of innocence. They had knowledge of other things already, perhaps they knew everything except that one thing: the difference between good and evil. What did we really gain by eating the forbidden fruit?
It's a great old myth and it will be pondered over for ages to come.