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To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground b
by redblacktree 3y ago
To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” Genesis 3:17-3:19
I always took this to mean precisely what you said. "From the sweat of your brow," you eat because you chose to define for yourself "good and evil" with respect to nature's provisions.
- numtel 3y agoYes, Genesis is a great example of this. The Old Testament is a religious text embedded in an agricultural society and reflects the need to come to terms with that. I like to connect it with Douglas Adams' answer to the meaning of life from Hitchhiker's Guide: 42. The number itself is shaped like a human bent on their knees toiling in a field.
- mharig 3y agoWell, actually it was because the stupid Adam listened to his wife.