Province of St. Albert the Great, USA

9 Jun • Choices can unite or divide

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In the Garden of Eden, Eve and Adam made a bad choice to break away from God because of pride. We all have free choice, and we should use our choices to enhance what unites us rather than furthering what divides us.

Based on Genesis 3:9–15:

After the man, Adam, had eaten of the tree, the Lord God called to him, and said to him, ‘Where are you?’ He said, ‘I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.’ He said, ‘Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?’ The man said, ‘The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.’ Then the Lord God said to the woman, ‘What is this that you have done?’ The woman said, ‘The serpent tricked me, and I ate.’ The Lord God said to the serpent,
‘Because you have done this,
  cursed are you among all animals
  and among all wild creatures;
upon your belly you shall go,
  and dust you shall eat
  all the days of your life.
I will put enmity between you and the woman,
  and between your offspring and hers;
he will strike your head,
  and you will strike his heel.’

(New Revised Standard Version Bible: Anglicized Edition, copyright © 1989, 1995 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. http://nrsvbibles.org)