The Fall and the problem of evil

Saint and sinner alike, everybody seeks to be without guilt. Nobody wants to be accused, rightly or wrongly. There is a tendency we have to want to appear flawless in other people’s eyes. And it started, according to the book of Genesis, early in the history of humankind. We encounter an obscure, mythological past in Genesis, where the environment is very different from ours. The elements of nature were fundamentally the same, but it was a nature new and glittering and fresh, and Adam and Eve could not wait to explore it. Human beings are much the same today as they.