The power of the forbidden fruits

A long time ago, we are in the church with my family, listening to the priest telling about the forbiden fruit that adam and eve ate, it says that it is a fruit of knowledge and sin.

I just remember my professor said that the fall of man is under the uncontrollable power he has the knowledge and uncontentment.

Then i remember the story told by the priest

From the book of Genesis of the Bible. Shortly after being made 'in the image of God' the first humans were tested. The account records an exchange with a 'serpent'. The serpent has always been universally understood to be Satan – an angelic adversary to God. Through the Bible, Satan usually confronts by speaking through another person. In this case he spoke through a serpent.

The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the LORD God had made. One day he asked the woman, "Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?"

"Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden," the woman replied. "It's only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, 'You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.'"

"You won't die!" the serpent replied to the woman. "God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil."

The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too. At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves This is from Genisis 3:1-6 from the bible.

The crux of their choice, and thus the temptation, was that they could 'be like God'. Up to this point they had implicitly trusted God for everything and taken Him at His word for everything. But now they had the choice to leave that behind, become 'like God', trusting themselves and taking their own word for things. They could become 'gods' themselves, captains of their own ship, masters of their destiny, being autonomous and answerable only to themselves.

In their Declaration of Independence something in our forebears changed. As the passage recounts, they felt shame and tried to cover up. In fact, just afterwards, when God confronts Adam about his breach of covenant, he blames Eve (and God who made her). She in turn blames the serpent. No one would accept responsibility.

Those are the story I love to hear before, it reminds me of something looks like the garden mentioned by the priest.

Sunday morning after we go to the church, I run to the waterfalls alone to look for the treasure chest we've found inside the tunnel under the waterfalls.

When I am near to the treasure chest, I saw a man standing in front of it and looked at me! I was shocked and scared and about to run but in a flash the man shines so bright and gone, then when I turn around I saw him, he is behind me, he push me away and he is strong coz my body is like a stone pushed and threw away, he spoke

" did you eat the fruits here?" hmmmm it seems no need to answer! You are not from here aren't you?"

I also ask him

"hey mister! Do own those fruits? We are not intend to steal it, we just discover it after we swims here in the river, we thought we can eat it coz we were hungry that time,"

I explain everything to him then he walk towards me and sit on the chest!

He said " I will tell you what is the fruit about! Then he begun to say a long story.