3/1/20: 1st Sunday of Lent: Adam and Eve and Right and Wrong

Today's First Reading brings us back to the beginning of creation to the story of the original blessing (God's generous creation of and providence over the man and woman) and the original sin. While it's easy to get caught up in the details of the story, the symbolism that's used makes it clear that the original sin is simply the man and woman's attempt to determine for themselves what is good and evil, right and wrong, and whenever humans do this in the Scriptures, disaster follows...