Now that is true wisdom slapping me in the face. I love it!  

Thanks for the encouragement, Sunmystic, and I can relate to those feelings too.  

Oh no! Now I am beating up young ladies ! This can not be so! Ah man!

You are loved Happyme!

sunmystic

Okay, I know the answer to this one!!

The Tree of Good and Evil is a Celtic/Pagan concept, of the woman (priestess possibly) in the sacred grove with the Apple. The snake is the symbol of the Goddess, so there is a load of Mother Goddess symbolism here. What happens is that the woman is actually the Mother Goddess, and she is giving the Apple of Immortality to Man. It is an ancient tale. Then the Christians come along to the Celts and realize that this is against everything they're talking about, WHAM! There's your tale of the tree of good and evil. They make the woman giving the apple to Adam evil, so she is punished (worse than Adam is in my opinion), the snake, always the symbol of wisdom and Goddess/Goddess Worship is turned into some devil, and Adam is the good guy being tricked into evil, instead of the great old story of the Goddess bestowing Immortality on the Good of the world.

This really is the old story, the one that was there before the christians twisted it. I do not have a grudge against the christians, but this is the real deal here, a lie created to convert the Celts and others by making their Goddes and their deities evil. There is one good thing that comes from this though, and that is that this story was forever preserved for future generations if they but realize the symbolism and what really happened to the story all that time ago.

The story of creation itself, is it true or symbolic? In Christianity it is also taught that when created, Adam's body was as large as the universe. The word Adam derived from Hebrew term Adam Kadmon, means human archetype. If connected to the Christian teaching & Qabalah Tree of Life, Adam Kadmon means the archetype/DNA of the universe. Havah(Eve) comes from the last three letters of The Tetragrammaton: YodHeVauHe(YHVH).
    Also, only 3 dimensional beings that can know good & evil, pain & pleasure, all dualities that in Qabalah said exist only in the realm of Malkuth.