Working on a paper on Milton’s Paradise Lost— on the fall of Adam and Eve.

Trying to work through a problem that I came up w while reading the text: What must be the circumstances through which Adam and Eve could fall from paradise? What compelled them to eat that fruit?

WHAT HAPPENED: Our original sin was initiated by our eating the fruit. In that moment, we chose to disobey God. We did not act completely out of ignorance, or lust, or irrationality— although they might have played roles. We have the free will and reason to consider the things we do, to overcome our impulses. We should have the temperance to command our desires.

SO THEN WHY’D WE DO THAT?: Was our fall the fault of our own original flaw? No. Our fall was the result of it— original sin being our first transgression that caused the others. We CHOSE— God gave us free will, to stand on our own or to fall on our own— and we failed. Eve still ate the fruit, and Adam followed her.

SO LETS BLAME TEH WOMAN!!

I hate blame, especially once you’ve understood a person. You know the situation where you’re in a group of people and one person starts complaining about another person who’s not there, how horrible they are, how much they suck, and the person in the group who actually has a relationship with that human being sticks up for them?  They aren’t necessarily saying that the original person was wrong, but often that there is a lot more to the story to know before you pass judgement.

Adam would stick up for Eve. So would Milton, and so does JESUS.

I’m jus gonna post my paper up here in a little bit…