What If Adam and Eve..

Work with me here.. because this is a big "what if"..

What if Adam and Eve were teenagers when they both engaged in "the original sin"? I'm no bible scholar, but I have read the Genesis story as many times as I am years old (that's at least 45), and it makes no mention of how old they were in Gregorian Calendar years when Eve ate the apple and Adam threw her under the bus that was a couple of thousand years still in the future.

Think about it on a practical level, and it could make some sense, and here's why: think about your teenage years! What were the biggest things we dealt with and teens still deal with right now? 1) Massive hormonal changes; and, 2) peer pressure. Now, let's go back to the Garden of Eden, where--and again, work with me here--we have a couple of pure minded teen-agers who are experiencing mega changes in their bodies, and since there were no other teens, we can--and work with me here again--accept as axiom that the creatures of the garden were "peers". And there you could have it: the serpent basically did what some teens do now to other teens: offered them a cigarette. Or a joint. Or a drink. Or a rumor that wasn't true and told them not to tell anybody, wink-wink. Well, Eve did eat the apple, and Adam ate as well, and now to dust we all shall return.

Is that notion really that far fetched? That the stages we all go through in life are just the normal development of the human being? That we start out selfish and needy as necessity and grow into something more altruistic and agape (the Greek word, not the English meaning your mouth is WIDE open)?

It could be. I'll consider it. And I think you should too. If anything, it'll expand your abstract thinking and might even test--and galvanize--your particular faith.

And, whether or not you agree, thank for for "working with me".