If there’s any story in the Bible that suffers from over-familiarity, Genesis 3 is a strong contender. It’s a deeply strange passage: a talking snake, a tree “of the knowledge of good and evil” (whatever that’s about), and a God who seems to get it wrong—after eating the fruit, the people don’t actually die. And yet, despite all this oddness, we rush to theologise the story. Righteousness. Disobedience. Sin entering the world. Exile from God’s presence. Concepts we often read into the text, rather than out of it. But what if there’s another lens—one that makes this passage make far more sense? Let’s find out.