The Lord created the human couple and patiently taught them. He didn't want to put them to a great test, just like when you forbid your child to eat the chocolate cake before his/her birthday that was made for him/her. Of course, the child doesn't understand why he/she can't eat it right now and why he/she has been forbidden from it. Through such prohibitions he/she learns abstinence, he/she learns that his/her needs will not always and immediately be met, but that he/she must do something to fulfil them, that he/she must perform a kind of symbolic service. And later on, his/her joy will be all the greater if he/she will get what he/she wanted, so that he/she also gave something in return. 

The Lord was wondering what He should forbid them. He could have said the fruit of the mango tree, but it had just run out after ripening, it was the apple tree's turn. Then, He had to get his admonition to be taken seriously and truly considered a trial. The garden was full of delicious fruit, why would they want apples? "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, eat not thereof: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." (Genesis 2.17). 

The Lord knew well the nature of created beings. Desire always arises in connection with that is forbidden. The apple-tree was already littered with apples, and they did not go near it, nor they pay any attention to it. But if it is considered as the tree of knowledge of good and evil, it is much more exciting. On the other hand, what could He have threatened them with? Something of which they have no concept. Such is the Krampus in our parenting practice. The child doesn't know what a Krampus is, so he/she becomes afraid of it because it is unknown, because he/she hasn't experienced it yet. But in Paradise there was no Krampus, let there be death. Death equals Krampus. In fact, in Paradise there is no death, an unintelligible concept. Never in the Lord's wildest dreams did He imagine that this little game would, after thousands of years, as part of a belief system, be burned into the minds of mankind as an original sin, nor that it would inspire hundreds of artists and we can admire on paintings as naked Eve gives Adam an apple bitten in half with a virginal yet erotic gesture. 

Adam and Eve were sleeping under the apple tree, which they haven't noticed until now, but which became particularly precious to them. Eve was awakened by a cool breeze, looked up at the apple tree and gazed longingly at its fruit. At that moment, a worm emerged from one of the apples. Eve had never seen anything like it. She examined the wormy apple and realised that the worm was feeding on the apple. Eve was not familiar with the taxonomy of the animal kingdom, which places worms and snakes in two different taxonomic categories, so for her the only difference between the worm and the snake was size. She thought the worm was the small snake that hatches inside the apple and when it can no longer fit inside, it crawls out to grow outside. She quickly woke Adam to share her experience. 

- Adam, wake up! I saw a snake to crawl out of the apple...

- Oh, come on! Let me, you must have dreamed it… - and he turned to his other side.

- I wasn't dreaming, it was true. Look at the hole, it crawled out here.

- Okay, so what?

- Don't you understand? The little snake can eat the apple what we can't! - Adam didn't understand, but he wanted to take a nap.

- This means that the snake is loved by our Father more than us, because He allowed it to do what He forbade us! - Eve said with her mouth curled up to cry.

- There can be something in it...- Adam thought. - What shall we do now?

- Let's try it ourselves!

- But then we'll die...

- I don't know what means to die, but I've seen that snakes hatch inside apples and grow into giants on the outside, that is, they won't have any problems. What can happen? At most, we'll become giants too! Imagine, we don't have to pick the fruit from under the tree, because we can reach the highest branches. - Eva enthused.

- You try it first. - Adam was still hesitating, but Eve was eager to take a bite.

- Delicious. - Eve ascertained, and held out the apple to Adam. Adam tasted it too, while Eve watched him if she could see any changes.

- Oh my God! - Eve screamed. - A snake grew between your legs! - Eve had ignored Adam's genitals until now, but at the moment she thought that the snake, he had probably eaten with the apple, was trying to get out of his body.

- That has been there for me so far. - Adam reassured her.

- If that's true, why don't I have any? - asked Eve. 
 

The Lord heard them calling him by name and turned his attention to them. He immediately realized his mistake. In vain He tried to raise the couple on gender-neutral way, they realized their differences. Soon they want to try out what has been hidden between their legs. Then they will breed. Oh dear! Like when a parent notices the children reading porn sites, before they've had sex education, and gets angry. Too late, thought the Lord. There's only one solution, He sighed, I've got to get them out of here. I cannot stop them from breeding, but if they overbreed, they will destroy my garden. So, God banished the human couple to Earth. 

- You see, - Eve sobbed - I told you He prefers snakes... 

Till this day, people think that God doesn't love them or doesn't exist. As the exile hates the exile power, so they keep away from even the thought of God. And mankind has overpopulated the Earth without having understood the fable.

Margaret Rhasoda-Varga
UCCM head-master
(Without illusions, excerpt)