Comments on: Hand Puppet

By: Jeff S.

Jeff S. — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:21:01 +0000

“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” — Maxwell Scott, “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”

By: Mitch4

Mitch4 — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:53:57 +0000

Mother Goose is continuing with the Garden of Eden / Temptation theme. The 7/19 Sunday panel has the same oddly blonde Eve holding out a modern red apple to Adam while the serpent leers from the side tree (and not as a puppet this time). Adam: “Do you realize how Freudian all this is?”

By: Drdan

Drdan — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:29:13 +0000

buzz
I don’t doubt that adam were going to have sex eventually, just not at the proding of the serpent, But like all Bible stories, if Adam and Eve ignore the tree of the fruit of knowledge, the Book of Genesis wouldn’t be very interesting, and I suppose in theory the population of the earth would have waited, the first murder might not have happened, and we wouldn’t have rainbows

By: buzz

buzz — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:11:55 +0000

Drdan: God created Eve to be Adam’s mate and to bear children with him, so sex was the intention.

Usual John: There was nothing supernatural/magical/mystical in the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good & evil. They had been created by a loving God who gave them everything they needed and allowed them any action they desired. The only prohibition was eating of the fruit or a single specific tree. That Adam & Eve were incapable of following such a simple request was a lesson they needed to learn; they put their selves above God.

The self is the root of all evil. Once we master the self and lead genuinely selfless lives, we will once again be in tune with what God wants of us.

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:59:54 +0000

My view: Adam was tempted by Eve’s apples. They had sex. God found them, and, as has been happening ever since, Adam claimed that Eve tempted him deliberately, having been tempted by his snake. And it was Adam’s side that ended up in the Bible, slightly altered, to be presentable to children.

Mind, I’ve only read the King James version of this once, and never the NIV translation, so don’t know how my interpretation fits.

By: Drdan

Drdan — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:47:07 +0000

I always believed that the story didn’t intend to be an apple, eve ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge, and that knowledge was her own sexuality which she shared with adam, and they had sex. When God came upon them they covered their bodies. Then they were cast out had to get a job, had kids, etc…
I never understood the bit about the apple

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:36:51 +0000

It’s easy to read sex into the story of original sin, since there is Adam’s snake and Eve’s apples.

By: buzz

buzz — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:19:16 +0000

Wot Irene sed.

Also, they didn’t “learn” shame; they created the concept of shame for themselves.

By: PeterW

PeterW — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:30:10 +0000

Original Sin being sex is a fairly common misconception, though. I wanted to scream at the TV when I saw the theologian character testify as such in Inherit The Wind.

By: Irene

Irene — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:31:17 +0000

GP is right- original sin and sex areunrelated.
THE original sin was Adam and Eve deciding they knew better than God. There is right and wrone, which is different than good and evil.

Adam and Eve KNEW it was right to do as God said, they chose to disobey Him anyway. That was the original sin. We still bear the stain of original sin in that we have concupiscience- the tendency to sin- to choose what is wrong, even when we know it is wrong.

Having said that, I think the humor is that Adam is trying to frame Eve.