Volume One, Issue One
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In r first issue, we find it appropriate 2 discuss the first issue ever brought upon humanity...the cause of death of Adam and Eve. We r not concerned with the physical ailments leading 2 their demise, but with what brought death in2 their realm of xsistence, the literal Garden of Eden, in the first place...was it the fruit, or the words told 2 them about the fruit?

The story b gins in the Garden. Life is eternal bliss... man and woman r naked, happy, and free from shame and all negative thoughts. Beautiful trees provide them with an endless supply of food, and beautiful creatures provide companionship. Adam is even entrusted 2 name all his new friends.

Only one cre8ion in the garden was 2 b left alone - the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Yet Eve, after listening 2 the serpent's xplanation that knowledge of good and evil would not kill her but make her God-like, decides 2 eat the fruit and shares it with Adam. Soon, the couple xperiences shame. They hide their nakedness from each other and try 2 hide from God, but God finds them, hands down a death sentence and xpels them from the Garden.

If God had not told them about the tree, would they still have died if they ate of it? If the serpent hadn't told Eve it was OK 2 eat that fruit, would she have considered it? Which killed them, the fruit or belief in words?

Consider the story of a man with a terminal heart condition. Doctors and specialists agreed his days here were winding 2 a close. One day, after his checkup, the man overhears his doctor and nurse discussing another patient. "His ticker's in great shape. We can take him off the medication and cancel his visit with the specialist... he's fine."

The man mistakenly thinks they r discussing him, and soon his heart trouble disappears.

On the other side is a woman who has survived many ailments thru her years in a nursing home, always clinging 2 life. Yet when told she had cancer, she gave up her zest 4 life and stopped eating. She passed on within 2 weeks.

We've all read stories of people who were told they would never walk again, yet didn't believe it was true, and soon xperienced full recovery. Or of inner-city children who were told no one makes it out of the ghetto, yet chose instead 2 bring their own dreams in2 reality, moving on 2 cre8 all the success and happiness they imagined.

So which was the killer, the fruit or the words?