Take Paradise; Put up a parking lot!

So Adam and Eve, we’re told, were in Paradise, the Garden of Eden. It was a wonderful place, an ideal place. They had everything they could’ve wanted.

But one day a snake sowed discontent into their minds, and they began to see negatives where there really were no negatives. God had only and always given them the best and done the very best for them. But they began to think He wasn’t that great after all. He was keeping things from them. He didn’t want them to eat from one particular tree, because that would make them gods, like Him. Continue reading “Take Paradise; Put up a parking lot!”