Blaming a garden, an apple or a serpent is the easy way out. It's the comfort of someone who refuses to accept his own nature. We say "if life were easy, it wouldn't mean anything," but we say it with a cheap romanticism that ignores the neurobiological and existential reality.
Adam's mistake: comfort is a trap
Read Genesis not as a religious event but as a psychological metaphor, and Eden turns out to be the path of least resistance. The problem is that human beings are designed to solve problems. As Schopenhauer put it, we swing back and forth between pain and boredom.
The theology of friction
Even in biblical theology, the desert always comes before the promised land. It isn't an arbitrary test of faith. It's a refining process. The logic is simple: iron sharpens iron. No resistance, no growth.
Do you really want an easy life, or are you just afraid of finding out that without obstacles, you have nothing to offer the world?
The PRAXMA mindset
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