The more you know, the more you realize how little you know

... or more likely, the more confused you will be...

My friend forwarded to me 10 Biblical facts that everyone gets wrong. In it, references were made to Top 10 Misconceptions about the bible http://listverse.com/2008/04/20/top-10-misconceptions-about-the-bible/ ; 15 Factlets most people get wrong http://listverse.com/2010/12/13/15-factlets-most-people-get-wrong/ ; and so on and so forth.

In other words, the information we get depends on the source, subject to corrections and interpretations by different people. Sigh.

Here is an example:

Contrary to popular belief, Adam and Eve were expelled from Eden not because they ate the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, but in order to prevent them from eating from the tree of life (both forbidden trees are in Genesis 2:9) which would have made them eternal. God doesn’t like competition! Here is the verse (Genesis 3:22-23): “And he said: Behold Adam is become as one of us, knowing good and evil: now, therefore, lest perhaps he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever. [23] And the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, to till the earth from which he was taken.”

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