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The story we find ourselves in
Crisis:
So what do Adam and Eve do? They say, 'We don't want to have to answer
to anybody. We want to be at the top. We want to be like gods ourselves.'
And they go beyond the limits that they know they should keep.
That's what taking the fruit is all about. It is about experiencing evil, tasting evil, which means disrupting the balance, going beyond the proper limits, as creatures, as part of creation. And as soon as they do, they lose trust in one another. They feel shame and fear because human trust is based on respect for limits, respect for differentness, respect for uniqueness.
We are still living in that same crisis. There used to be one world, one story. But now we've separated ourselves. We've moved out of that world and that story and struck off on our own.
We've broken the harmony of goodness, so men and women struggle in conflicted relationships, like Adam and Eve. Economies compete, often with lethal results, like Cain and Abel. Languages and cultures strive for dominance. We've mucked up the story. That's the crisis, the crisis we find ourselves in.
There are global and social dimensions to this crisis - humans destroying
the environment, causing extinctions, continuing our long legacy of oppression
and greed and ethnic hatred.
This is the story we find ourselves in.