Examination of the Cause of an Event and the Repercussions of It essay
Due to the deprived nature of mankind we are apt to blame either different people or some compelling circumstances of the faults of our own. Some of us hum-and-haw about traffic jam when late at work, other s blame political order of their poverty, while still others justify their vices by heredity.
Of course we are not omnipotent so somehow or other we have to count on the phenomena which are more powerful than we are. This notwithstanding, any event of our life is predetermined by its cause and is always followed by its consequence(s).
Christianity offers hardly the most accessible explanation of that cause and effect relationship. Holy Writ suggests that any sin is caused by temptation and followed by divine retribution. A human trespasses after being tempted and seduced from the right way. Having committed a sin he/she is to be punished for his/her act or omission.
Bible begins with the story of the Fall of Man which describes explicitly our predisposition to such a cause and effect relation inherited from our First Parents. They both were tempted by serpent to trespass divine prohibition to eat the fruit from the tree of
knowledge of good and evil. Furthermore the Scripture makes it clear that neither Eve nor Adam were concussed into violating the Lord’s order. The Serpent easily seduced Eve and then had Adam seduced into disobeying divine order. He promised them that they would be equal to God and our forefathers agreed. This notwithstanding Adam and Eve failed to bear responsibility for their deeds and were punished. When summoned by God Adam bucked responsibility for violation the order of God upon his wife and furthermore he tried to buck that responsibility upon God himself. When asked by the Lord whether he had eaten the fruit he was forbidden to eat Adam replied “The woman whom thou gavest [to be] with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.” The Woman in her turn also bucked responsibility upon the Serpent. Coveting for divine greatness and power our First Parents failed however to retain their human dignity. None of them admitted either his/her guilt or the reasons why they perpetrated their crime. It is no wonder that they were punished by Lord by expulsion from Paradise to such an unfriendly environment as the Earth.
Furthermore it should be noted that according to Bible our Lord has not been indiscriminate in His wrath at the children of His. Seeing that the Man had proved that he is easy to be seduced into misdeed he ordered her to be ruled over by her husband and to give birth to children in sorrow and pain. Adam was ordered to eat his daily bread in sweat to be tired and preoccupied with his daily chores lest being able to challenge the Lord again. The Serpent as the most cunning and the cleverest instigator was punished in the cruelest way. The Lord “put enmity between” the Serpent “and the woman, and between [the Serpent’s] seed and her seed” lest he could inspire a man and a woman again.
