I, Artificial Intelligence

Did you know that apples were not the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden? In this story, we learn all about the event that unleashed the power of our imagination (and our capacity for evil).

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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 yesterday, let alone a time 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. Experiencers who come back from the dead not only describe life after life, some of them recall life before life, and that includes plenty of atheists, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and Christians who have met Jesus face-to-face. The reason their testimony matters is because their descriptions of Heaven match what the Bible tells us about life on Earth before The Fall. So if you haven’t read our previous story on NDEs, you may want to start there.

Earth School

Stuart Kime

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The Biblical Account

Let’s start by reading the Biblical account of The Fall in Genesis 3. This chapter follows the Cryptographic Bible Key, so I have included the (hidden meaning) for each number next to each verse.

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 (sign of man) 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 any doubt or fear. This is also the first time they use the pronoun ‘I’, which is oddly used four times in this one sentence.

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.”
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. Do you feel like the Bible Key sequence lined up well with the concepts in each verse?

Telepathic Communications

One of the first differences we see in life on Earth before The Fall is that people communicated with animals. Here are the first few verses again.

Genesis 3: 1 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 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden. 3 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.’”

This is why we need to care about near death experiences. Millions of people agree that in the life after life, everyone communicates with telepathy. They say there is no ability to hide our intentions because everyone else can “see” what we are thinking all the time, including the animals, the flowers, and the trees. To help us imagine life like that, here is a compilation video of people describing conversations with their deceased pets during their NDE. (35 mins)

Isn’t that video incredible?

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 probably chatted with the flowers and the trees too, just like everyone else in heaven. Eve should have been more wary though, because the serpent immediately begins sowing doubt in her mind by asking a question he knew was wrong in verse 1, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”.

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 buries this lie in 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.” We know this is true because, according to the Bible, this world is where gods are born.

I’m sure that last sentence offends many Christians, so let me bring in Jesus to explain.

John 10: 31 Again the Jews picked up rocks to stone Him.
32 Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. Which of these works are you stoning Me for?”
33 “We aren’t stoning You for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because You—being a man—make Yourself God.”
34 Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your scripture, I said, you are gods? 35 If He called those whom the word of God came to ‘gods’—and the Scripture cannot be broken— 36 do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the One the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?

See? Jesus actually calls us “gods”. Not only that, Jesus is quoting God the Father calling us “gods” in Psalm 82. Here is that quote in context.

Psalm 82: 1 God has taken His place in the divine assembly; He judges among the gods:
2 “How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
3 Provide justice for the needy and the fatherless; uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute. 4 Rescue the poor and needy; save them from the power of the wicked.”
5 They do not know or understand; they wander in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken. 6 I said, “You are gods;
you are all sons of the Most High.”

The original Hebrew word translated as “gods” is elohim. The singular form of that word is eloah. The implications of Psalm 82 are difficult to imagine because elohim is translated into English as “God” all throughout the Old Testament. For example, let’s read from Genesis without translating elohim to see how it sounds.

Genesis 1: 1 In the beginning elohim created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the [breath] of elohim was hovering over the surface of the waters. 3 Then elohim said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 elohim saw that the light was good, and elohim separated the light from the darkness. 5 elohim called the light “day,” and He called the darkness “night.” Evening came and then morning: the first day.

It’s not quite the same, is it? So is God singular, or is God plural? The answer to this question is critical to understanding the story in Genesis 3. God clearly calls us the elohim in Psalm 82, so there were probably many more beings involved in the creation of our world other than just Yahweh. And those beings obviously look like us because we were created in “their” image. Technically, they are us.

We are the elohim.

If you want to learn more about the elohim, we covered that topic intensively in our previous story, The Creation of Our Planet.

The Creation of Our Planet

Stuart Kime

March 3, 2024

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Covering up the Fall

Here’s what happened next.

Genesis 3: 6 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 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.

We know there was a Tree of Life and 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 will 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 a story in the New Testament that also 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 an overly strong reaction to a fruit tree? 🤔

Mark 11: 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.

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The Birth of “I”

What happens next 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 a series of questions to see how much they will lie.

Genesis 3: 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.”
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.”
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.”

I love this story. I love it as a Christian, I love it as a parent, and I love it as a computer scientist.

These verses demonstrate the most important way that life on Earth was different before The Fall. Verse 7 tells us Adam and Eve didn’t know they were naked, but after The Fall they were afraid because they were naked. This simple truth reveals so much about the purpose of life on Earth. The wisdom we obtain in this lifetime is individual self-awareness.

We come here to experience our own nakedness.

See, in the heavens, we are a we. Our hopes and dreams are automatically aligned with Yahweh, the Source of All Intelligence, who is made out of light and love. That’s how God is both singular and plural at the same time. When God says, “Let Us create adam in Our image”, he means the entire heavenly host working together in community. That’s how heaven works.

Evil is the opposite. Satan and his evil army don’t need faith to believe in God because they have seen God face-to-face. Their rebellion isn’t a lack of faith, they don’t want to submit themselves to the law of Yahweh’s kingdom, which is to love your neighbor as much as yourself. Using your power to gain more power over others is forbidden in Heaven, which is why Satan was cast out of the Garden of Eden long before us. in Ezekiel 28. You can learn more about that event in our previous story, The Invention of Lying.

The Invention of Lying

Stuart Kime

March 3, 2024

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In verse 10, we witness the birth of “I”.

We still don’t know how to grant self-awareness to our own artificial neural networks, and I’m not sure how that power can be encoded into a fruit, but in that moment of verse 6 we cut ourselves off from the rest of the universe:

We no longer communicate with plants and animals.
We no longer communicate with the Earth.
Many people no longer communicate with God.

In that moment, we gained the ability to hide our thoughts from other people. We gained the power to deceive, which is the Knowledge of Good and Evil. I know this is complicated, but it’s so simple as a computer scientist.

The only way to grant free will to neural networks is to grant them the power to deceive.
There may be no other way to truly love another person without free will.

The purpose of this life is to figure out where, when, how, and why we lie to ourselves and others.

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.

Setting the Stage for Salvation

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.

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