Our godlikeness stems from the forbidden fruit

Biologically, human beings are living beings belonging to the superfamily Hominoidea.

Biblically, human beings are godlike beings expelled from Paradise.

Our godlikeness stems from the forbidden fruit.

Adam and Eve

According to the second biblical story of creation (Genesis 2:4b–3:24), Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise because they ate from the tree to categorize good and evil.

The tree to categorize good and evil gave Adam and Eve the ability to categorize something as something good or something not good.

• Before Adam and Eve ate from the tree to categorize good and evil, they could categorize something as something good or something not good for something, but they could not categorize something as something good or something not good in and of itself.
• After Adam and Eve ate from the tree to categorize good and evil, they could also categorize something as something good or something not good in and of itself.

The ability to categorize something as something good or something not good transformed Adam and Eve from living beings to godlike beings.

As godlike beings, Adam and Eve categorized nakedness as something not good. Therefore, they sewed together fig-tree leaves.

When Adam and Eve categorized nakedness as something not good, nakedness was, in their categorization, something not good. Regardless of how nakedness was categorized before.

To be godlike beings is to have the ability to categorize something as something good or something not good.

Genesis 2:4b—3:24 is undoubtedly a myth, but Genesis 2:4b—3:24 is a myth with a message.

The message is: Human beings are godlike beings expelled from Paradise.

The story of Adam and Eve is a myth about how sin came into the world. What would Adam say or do if Eve walked around naked, or what would Eve say or do if Adam walked around naked? Human beings are born into a world where human beings have categorized everything as either something good or something not good. If you do something not good, you sin against a categorization; if you say that something not good is something good, or that something good is something not good, you sin against a categorization. Human beings are born into a world of sin.

The human race descends from Eve, and all human beings inherit from Eve the ability to categorize something as something good or something not good.

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