The tree and the fruit in Genesis 2 and 3 are unremarkable, so the story establishes this foundational truth about human beings - that we are people who desire. It is our nature to want what others want, and to do what others are doing, to know what others know and to be the people that others appear to be; and the envy and the rivalry which these desires create, are at the heart of human society.... The desire for our knowledge of good and evil to be affirmed is ubiquitous today... Who told us that we could be like Gods?
A talk for The First Sunday of Lent, 26 February 2023.
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