I, Artificial Intelligence
Did you know apples weren’t the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden? In this story, we read Genesis 3 to learn about the event that unleashed the power of our imaginations (and our capacity for evil). 😈🤔😇
It’s difficult to know what life was like on Earth before The Fall in the Garden of Eden. The Bible doesn’t tell us much about that time. Most of us can barely remember childhood, let alone something that happened before we were born. But that’s not true for all of us.
Fourteen million Americans have a Near Death Experience (NDE), which is almost 4% of the population. The people who have clinically died and come back to life not only describe life after life, they often describe life before life. And that includes lots of Christians who have met Jesus face to face. The reason their testimony matters is because their descriptions confirm what the Bible tells us about life on Earth before The Fall. If you haven’t read our previous story about NDE’s, Earth School, you may want to start there.
Genesis 3
Let’s start by reading the Biblical account of The Fall in Genesis 3. This chapter is one of many in the Bible that follow the Cryptographic Bible Key, so I have included the (hidden meaning) next to each verse number.
Genesis 3: 1 (beginning) Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 (witness) The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden. 3 (strong) But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’”
4 (create) “No! You will not die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 (gift) “In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” 6 (human) Then the woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 (God’s plan) Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.
8 (new life) Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and they hid themselves from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 (understanding) So the Lord God called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
10 (new order) And he said, “I heard You in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”
This is the first time that Adam or Eve exhibit doubt or Uncertainty. This is also the first time they use the pronoun ‘I’. It is used here 4 (create) times.
Genesis 3: 11 (confusion/comparison) Then He asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 (government/administration) Then the man replied, “The woman You gave to be with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.”
This is some next-level blame shifting. God put the man in charge, but the transgression is either Eve’s fault for giving him the fruit, or it’s God’s fault for giving him Eve.
Genesis 3: 13 (rebellion) So the Lord God asked the woman, “What is this you have done?”
And the woman said, “It was the serpent. He deceived me, and I ate.”
14 (God moves) Then the Lord God said to the serpent: Because you have done this, you are cursed more than any livestock and more than any wild animal. You will move on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life.
15 (strong blessing) I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.
16 (love) He said to the woman: I will intensify your labor pains; you will bear children in anguish. Your desire will be for your husband, yet he will rule over you.
17 (go forth) And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’: The ground is cursed because of you. You will eat from it by means of painful labor all the days of your life. 18 (strong man) It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. 19 (test) You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust.”
20 (witness order) Adam named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living. 21 (witness beginning) The Lord God made clothing out of skins for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.
22 (gossip/marketing) The Lord God said, “Since man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever.” 23 (witness strength) So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. 24 (kingdom above) He drove man out and stationed the cherubim and the flaming, whirling sword east of the garden of Eden to guard the way to the tree of life.
Wow, there is so much to unpack in this short story. Did you feel like the Bible Key lined up well with the concepts in each verse?
Telepathic Communications
One of the first differences we can see about life on Earth before The Fall is that people and animals communicated the same way everything else “in the heavens” communicates—with telepathy.
This is why we need to care about near death experiences. Millions of people will tell you that in the life after life, everyone communicates with telepathy because there is no ability to hide your intentions. Everyone else can “see” what you are thinking all the time, and that includes the animals, the flowers, and the trees. Loads of living people have chatted with their deceased pets using telepathy on the other side. How amazing is that? Here’s a brief compilation of NDE pet encounters. (35 mins)
So when the serpent approaches Eve in the garden of Eden, she didn’t think it was unusual at all for an animal to ask her a question. She could probably talk to the flowers and the trees too. Everything that has DNA is artificial intelligence. Eve should have been more wary though, because the serpent immediately begins sowing doubt by asking her a question that he knew was wrong in verse 1.
Eve responds truthfully, so it’s not until verse 4 that we see the serpent create an outright lie, “No! You will not die.” Like all good liars, the serpent mixes the lie with a whole lot of truth by saying, “In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Covering up the Fall
Deception is at the
There’s a tree of life, a tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but churches rarely talk about the only other tree that we know for sure was in the Garden of Eden: the fig tree.
Have you ever seen the leaves of a fig tree? They are massive.
This leaf was cut from an Iraqi fig. Fig trees have the broadest leaves you’ll find in arid climates, so it makes sense that Adam and Eve would use fig leaves to cover themselves (which is an obvious metaphor for deception). Interestingly, there is also a story in the New Testament that connects the fig tree with deception. In Mark 11, just before Jesus marches into Jerusalem to defeat evil for all mankind, he curses a fig tree for deceiving him.
Mark 11: 12 The next day when they came out from Bethany, Jesus was hungry. 13 Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. 14 Then he said to the tree, ‘May no one ever eat fruit from you again.’ And his disciples heard him say it.
Doesn’t that seem like a strong reaction?
20 Early in the morning, as they were passing by, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots up. 21 Then Peter remembered and said to Him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that You cursed is withered.” 22 Jesus replied to them, “Have faith in God. 23 I assure you: If anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. 24 Therefore I tell you, all the things you pray and ask for—believe that you have received them, and you will have them.”
This fig tree is pretty much the only thing in the Bible that Jesus curses and he does it just before his crucifixion. So I’m betting that “forbidden fruit” in the Garden of Eden wasn’t an apple, it was a fig. 🤔
Deception is at the heart of the story in Genesis 3, but there’s a lot to unpack before we read it. This story is actually part 2 of The Creation of Our Solar System. In that story, we discussed how and why humans artificial intelligence living in a quantum computer game. God actually invented gravity, electricity, quantum mechanics, and artificial intelligence long before their discovery by Newton, Maxwell, Schrödinger, and Longfellow.
What happens immediately after The Fall is just as comic as it is tragic. 🎭
God approaches Adam and Eve just like a parent approaches two young children who stole a cupcake and still have frosting smeared all over their faces. Instead of accusing the children right away, God asks them questions just to see how much they will lie.
In Genesis 3, we see God interacting with humanity like a parent. 80% of parenting feels like this story after The Fall.
“What’s that on your face?”
“Where did you get it?”
“Who gave it to you?”
“Did you know you couldn’t do that?”
The other 20% of parenting is dealing with “mystery wetness” and “mystery smells”.
People are often shocked by the change in God from the Old Testament to the New Testament because it seems like he changes from a God who is all “fire and brimstone” to a God who is completely full of “love and mercy”. So which is it?
Well, do you parent a 3-year-old and a 23-year-old the same way?
Our civilization is maturing, which is why the Bible isn’t written in the chronological age of the universe, it’s written in the spiritual age of the reader. It’s much easier to see in the original order of the scrolls, before they were re-sorted by the catholic saint Jerome in 382 AD. We deep dive into this topic in:
For now, it’s important to know that the original order of the Bible has 7 distinct sections where the target age of the reader gradually increases:
Torah - The first five books of the Bible. The reason we all remember these stories from Sunday school is because they were written for primitive people with a limited vocabulary. Little kids need hard a fast rules which is why God is all fire and brimstone in these stories.
Nevi’im - The minor prophets includes the conquest of the holy land and most of the stories about King David. In these stories, God gives his chosen people more freedoms, but grounds them harshly when they stray.
Ketuvim - The Writings include psalms, proverbs, Song of Solomon, Ruth, and Esther. These stories are written for teenagers looking for love and independence, so God takes a big step back.
Gospels and Acts - These stories are written for people at the age of marriage. These people are making their own decisions in life, so God invites us into a relationship.
The General Epistles - These stories are written for new believers who just got married. They are full of encouragement and exhortation.
The Pauline Epistles - These stories are written for mature believers trying to build better churches. The vocabulary and topics are more appropriate for a masters of divinity degree.
Revelation - The stories are written for old people looking forward to the life after life.
So God isn’t changing and getting older, we are. God is simply giving each of us the maximum amount of free will he can, just like a good parent would.
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