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Essay / Paradise Lost Research Paper - 1064
Thanks to them, we can now understand a lot about the world and how it works, as well as the knowledge of good and evil. Before eating the apple, they had their peaceful paradise and saw everything as innocent things, not knowing that there was anything bad there. Many comparisons can be made to subject matter and knowledge over time. We are now subject to the cruel world and live in sin every day, but we still enjoy God's affection and forgiveness. The things we know and can understand today would not be possible if Adam and Eve had not eaten the apple. Thanks in part to them, we can sit in class and learn new things about the world, especially in science classes. But the one thing we probably wouldn't want out of all of this is death, that's one of the only sucky parts, well that and not having the chance to experience the paradise they lived in until at the end of our lives (if some are lucky enough). Who knows what life would be like if they had never committed original sin and caused the fall of man. Who can think that if they hadn't caused everything themselves, no one else would have been able to support them? The price of knowledge was high, but the main question is: was it all worth it? It depends on one's own point of view and