Six Sentence Story: Close

Adam’s first mistake was letting Eve wander off alone with that snake.

His second was listening to her.

Hey, Adam, you’ve gotta try this stuff! It’s off the chain.

His third was taking a bite.

And that’s how Adam closed the deal turning over dominion to the lords of the snake.

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Denise offers the prompt word “close” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Genesis 3:17 KJV – 17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

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Author: Frank Hubeny

I enjoy walking, poetry and short prose as well as taking pictures with my phone.

18 thoughts on “Six Sentence Story: Close”

    1. That’s how many interpret the story today. They look for some way to excuse the part Eve played, but all that excusing is the result of the specific curses that fell to Eve (Genesis 3:16). Before the fall, I see Adam and Eve as equal partners. He didn’t rule over her. The snake had to get both of them to take a bite. It went through Eve.

      About five or six years ago I viewed this story as mythological. After I realized that human history doesn’t go back more than 5300 years (and after other pieces of the puzzle began lining up), when I read Genesis today I recognize that I am reading history.

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      1. I am not a Christian. Although I have read way too much of the bible to signify its claim to authenticity authenticity. So mine was nearly a humorous antidote.
        But I defend your right to believe what ever rings true to you

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        1. I suspected that you were not a Christian. I am just bouncing off of your comments.

          There are three areas that have convinced me that Genesis is more than a collection of mythological tales: archaeology, astronomy and geology.

          If one uses the more ancient Byzantine biblical chronology, rather than the one assembled by Ussher, the 5300 years of written history aligns with the dating of the flood. That is the archaeological part.

          Relativity physics sets a limit on the two-way speed of light allowing a one way speed of light to Earth to be nearly instantaneous. That is the astronomical part. If we were still in Newtonian physics, these accounts in the Bible would be discredited.

          The measurements of rates of geological processes varies and so cannot be used as clocks. Although there are enough side effects of uranium decay in the Earth to justify billions of years of Earth history, other rates, such as the migration of helium isotopes out of zirconium crystals, puts the age at only thousands of years. That’s the geological part: current rates of geological processes do not imply they were constant in the past.

          Blessings to you, Violet! Thank you for commenting.

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    1. The snake was the worst. I don’t think either of them would have eaten that fruit without its deception. I suspect that is the reason why they did not die immediately on that day as the Lord predicted they would. Neither of them ate with full understanding of what they were doing.

      Nonetheless, they did eat.

      Blessings, Mimi!

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  7. stories are funny thing. surely it is easy to accept that they (in part or whole) are of the writer as much (if not more) of the Reader. the magic happens (imo) when the Reader can identify with parts (or the whole) of the story. That means, the author can be both independent and inextricably-linked with the Reader.

    ya know?

    thought provoking Six yo

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    1. Good points about the magic that happens when the Reader identifies with parts of a story and how the author is independent and yet linked to that Reader. Blessings, Clark, and that you for the insight.

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