The story of the fall of Adam and Eve disturbs a lot of people, raises many questions, and poses many problems. How can anyone who lives in this advanced society with our advanced technology and our unlimited horizons believe in talking serpents?

• Or with our advanced theology how are we to understand a God who hangs our fate in trees?

• Or when we have passed the finals and the orals and have gained all wisdom and all knowledge, how can anybody be this stupid?

• Or how could God be so harsh as to impose these stiff penalties and even sentence us to death for one naughty little no-no?

If you pull the cover back a little farther, the disturbance deepens. We discover that it isn’t a talking serpent that perplexes us, but what he says that gets to us. And suddenly it isn’t Adam and his part…