Was It Suppose To Be Like This?

The bible, leaves a big space to interprate. As I said in prior blogs, the bible can either be seen in a literal way or as a metaphor. I try to see it metaphorically beause it's hard to believe what the literal cotext tries to say. The tree of the prohibited apple is used as a symbol for tempation. The things that tempt the most are those that we know we shouldn't do. Of course, the point of the whole story is for us to see that we are vunerable to temptation, we don't believe fire burns unless we touch it. Adam and his wife were warned by God and told that the tree was prohibited. Adam's wife was very easy to be convined; tempted. She didn't trust the God that made her and tried to be superior, tried to be a God. Instead of becoming one, she worked her way down. "For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return". At least before she ate the fruit of the prohibited apple, they had eternal life. This shows two things: humans are destined to be tempted, destined to touch fire even though they know it burns, and sometimes when you try to achieve some goal in a way you aren't suppose to, you end up worse than before.
We can also see how guilt plays an important part in our life. When god asked Adam if he had eaten the fruit of knowledge, he blamed his wife. When God asked Eve, she blamed the serpent. We never want to accept guilt beacuse it's a very heavy weight in opur concious. I interpretated this part of the bible as an explanation to why we feel guilt, why we follow temptation and why we have that urge to be superior. After all, the bible says that's how things were suppose to be.