Gen 2 and 3 Would you Adam and Eve it?

I recently listened to a brilliant version of the Adam and Eve story told in the style of Del Boy from Only Fools and Horses:



Adam and eve
had it made
lovely garden
nice bit of shade

didn't need nothing
no thees and those
it was cushty
so it goes

'cos they didn't Adam and Eve it
when God said
Oy apple leave it.

'Allo sweat heart
sunny day
Splendid ourchard
Ooo I say

scrummy apple
what a sight
Go on darling
have a bite

course they didn't Adam and Eve
when God said
"Oy, Apple leave it"



(see Keith Park's book Bible Stories in Cockney Rhyming Slang, Jessica Kingsley Publishers)

Good eh? This is where it all went wrong for us. We "had it made", yet we didn't trust in God's loving care of us. The lie of sin is that "it's worth it" but the truth is, it never is.

I love the introduction to the Clangers. The voice of creator Oliver Postgates introduces each episode with slow soothing speech:

"of all the planets in the solar system
of all the stars in the milky way
perhaps the most troublesome is this one.
This cloud covered planet called earth
our planet, the home of the human race"

He's right. It is troublesome. A lot of very troubling things go on on our planet. And this bit of the bible tells us something of why that is. Man didn't trust God and went his own way. Man was not the first to fall over course, Satan was. Our fall was though perhaps the most disastrous yet leading to something awesomely glorious.