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Subject Reading the Bible as Fables appropriate for children is a terrible injustice !
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Original Message The Basis foundation and purpose of religion, spirituality should be Coming closer to God, repentance or in Hebrew called teshuva (which literally means returning), but commonly today we find people think it revolves around encouraging one to become more and more religious. The problem is that the definition of religion being emphasized is one of ethnicity and culture and has little if anything to do with real spirituality and drawing close to Heaven.

The two Trees (and their ”fruits”) materialize as forms of information and knowledge (Dat) here on Earth.

Elohim (G-d) created the Heavens and the Earth. Elohi”m (God as found in the story of creation) in Hebrew is equal in numerical value to the Hebrew word for “nature” (HaTeva). G-d is found in what is natural and normal. We lost contact with this, became distracted and lost by our continual ”eating of the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, Good and Evil.”

It is said in the beginning, Eve and Adam ate of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. This story for millennium been viewed as being literal. Any such reading of Biblical stories is a terrible injustice. Fables and stories are appropriate for children and adults who never mature. Yet, for those who seek to discover truth and the reality, we have to ”peel away the surface layers” in order to get fruit.

The two ”Trees” in the Garden were not the kind of trees we know. The fruit of the trees was not an apple, fig, date or grape. Any reference to these by our Sages is purely metaphorical with the intent of teaching moral lessons, as did Aesop in ancient Greece. The Bible speaks with child-like simplicity. To those who have minds like children. Those who are more educated realize this and see through the fable-like language to the real essence of the story.

Its time to grow up

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