Why were Adam and Eve evicted from Eden? Common theology holds that they surrendered the virtue upon partaking of the "fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." God could no longer tolerate their presence. In the mournful, "Adam? Where are you?" I hear not judgment, but parental heartbreak. An ill child … Continue reading Eviction
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In Revelation 5, as the angels mourn their isolation from Unconditional Love (which is the Most High), a scroll is revealed “with writing on both sides.” That detail may seem incidental, but remember what Adam is told in Eden: do not eat from the tree in the middle of the Garden, which is the Tree … Continue reading Breaking the Martyr’s Chains