/lit/ - Literature

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Was he in the wrong?

The snake (perhaps Lucifer) told Adam and Eve the truth in the garden of Eden.
God forbade Adam and Eve to eat of the tree of knowledge and the tree of life because “ON THE DAY THAT YE EAT OF IT YE SHALL DIE”. The snake on the other hand said this isn’t true, that they will not in fact die and that God merely fears them becoming like him. What happened when they ate it? They didn’t die, and God lamented “now they have become like us!”, just as the snake said.
Juden and Christcucks cope with this by saying God was speaking metaphorically, that when he said “ye shall die” he meant either a spiritual death or that they will die sometime in the future.
It cannot be the latter, for God said “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever,” suggesting they were already going to die. And if it’s the former, God lied either way, for Adam had no way of knowing God was speaking metaphorically.
In conclusion, the snake told the truth and God lied. What does this mean for Judeo-Christian theology?

The most beautiful pieces of literature always engage in a sort of "emotional realism". They represent human passion, irrationality, courage, and perseverance as triumphing even over the fetters of reality. King Lear, for example, though he is old and weak by the end of the play, becomes reinvigorated with love for his daughter to the point of killing the two young soldiers who are sent to hang her. Here the corporeal elements of human existence, such as the decaying elderly body of Lear, which so restrict us and make life so dull, are overthrown by the emotional forces of passion, courage, and love.
Some more examples:
>In Ivanhoe the Knight Templar suddenly dies in a jousting tournament: "Unscathed by the lance of his enemy, he had died a victim to the violence of his own contending passions."
>In The Prisoner of Chillon by Lord Byron, the prisoner tears his metal chains apart in order to go to the body of his brother.
Ultimately, then, great art can be characterised as a subversion of reason, an attempt to represent the world in terms of passion, curiosity, wonder, and mystery, which is the way our unscientific primitive ancestors saw the world. This all makes for a sublimely emotional impact, and it is why Don Quixote begins as a great book and ends as a horrible one: Cervantes, by having Don Quixote realise he was "insane" and restoring him back to reality, commits treachery against art, for he sides with reason over passion.