“And the Lord God commanded the man, ‘You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you do you will surely die.'” ...

Why did Adam and Eve disobey God and eat from the tree of knowledge? Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch argues that Eden was a society based on the system of divinely rooted ethics. For this reason, God ...

The Expulsion of Adam and Eve, by Benjamin West. Source: Wikicommons/public domain. The Bible opens upon Adam and Eve, whom some believe to have been real people. Whether literal or allegorical, what ...

except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. From that tree you shall not eat; the moment you eat from it you are surely doomed to die.” Today’s first reading walks us through the precursor to the ...

Columnist Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson writes in her Walking Our Faith column that “We think it’s stupid that God punished his own creation for the harmless sin of eating a piece of fruit.” There is no ...

Anybody with a passing acquaintance with Christian or Jewish religious texts would know the story of Adam and Eve: how she ...

Adam and Eve were commanded not to eat of the tree of knowledge, lest “in the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.” [1] Adam and Eve did not die - not then, anyway. But now, with knowledge ...