A Story

Is the greatest truth about Adam and Eve and the fruit that it happened,

or that it happens?

This story, one of the first in the Bible, is true for us because it is our story.

We have all taken the fruit. We have all crossed boundaries.

We have all made decisions to do things our way

and then looked back and said to ourselves, What was I thinking?

The fruit looked so great to Adam and Eve for those brief moments,

but the consequences were with them for the rest of their lives.

Their story is our story.

We see ourselves in them.

The story is true for us because it happened and because it happens.

It is an accurate description of how life is.

Rob Bell