Adam and the Cave

After the fall, when Adam had eaten the fruit that Eve had given him, and the knowledge between good and evil could be understood, Adam cursed God, “Heavenly Being, why did you create this rebellious spirit, this snake to tempt my love? And why did you give me such a being that I should love and obey and therefore sin against you? Would it not have been better when the world was being created and you saw what had happened that I had never been created?”
God spoke, “I value freedom. Do not ask me why, that is a mystery you must discover in relationship to me, but to even try to be in relationship with me you must understand that in order for me to love you, you must be capable of loving back, and for you to love Me, you must be free. Freedom and love are part of one being, just as you are body and soul. Because love is what I am, and freedom is necessary for love, then freedom is ultimately good.”
Adam cried, “But love is so painful and freedom so frightening, Father! Love asks so much. This rebellious spirit in within me, the snake that has crawled into my bosom, tells me that I should be afraid of love. I don’t know if I want this freedom.”
Adam took Eve by the hand and went away from the Garden, and outside the Garden they discovered a Cave. Adam said to Eve, “Let us stay here, away from the beautiful garden, the garden that always reminds us that we are not God. Here in the darkness of the cave we can live and multiply and eat whatever the rains wash into the cave and gobble up whatever animals seek shelter here. It will be difficult to find the food, and we will have to feel and scratch in the dirt, but hopefully our eyes will become accustomed to the darkness.”
“I don’t know if I want to become accustomed to the darkness. Can’t we just go back? You saw how God looked at us. He still loves us; it was clear to me by the way he spoke and moved towards us and looked at us. If we go back, he may forgive us. I am so sorry to listen to the snake.”
“You can go back if you like, but to accept his forgiveness is to accept another thing from Him!”
“But he is freedom! I would go but I am too afraid to leave you. I do not think I can go to him on my own. It makes little sense to be there without you.”
“Don’t pretend that you love me, after the way you lead me here, the way you tempted me!”
“ I do love you in some way. But at that moment, with the snake, I had forgotten who God was. I thought I wanted to be God, forgetting that I was already created in his image and likeness.”
“How so?"
" I think it is in our capacity to love. My heart feels like it grasp hold of all infinity. This heart is like God's heart, our love is like God's love."
" We will forget what the love of God was like. Our eyes are already growing used to the darkness.”
“ For now I still remember his Love, and I know he will come into this cave, and bring us back to the Garden. I shall be the first to see it.”
“ I am hungry, and cold and we must scratch and dig in the dirt to find something in the darkness of this cave.”