One of the highest honors given to the human race was the freedom to choose: Adam and Eve could choose to serve and obey God and receive their happiness in return, or they could follow Lucifer’s lead, refusing humility before their Creator. The Devil, hoping for their fall, was not content to sit back and allow events to play out as they would. At the center of the Garden of Eden stood the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the fruit of which God had forbidden Adam and Eve to eat. This tree would become the stage for the Devil’s trap as he set out to convince Adam and Eve that they had been tricked, that eating of the tree would make them like God. The Serpent, the Father of Lies, had laid the first trap for humanity.

While the word "myth" has come to mean "untrue account," we mean something quite different. Throughout the long ages of human life and culture, myth has been a way of expressing deep truths. And so, here, "mythic narrative" means "meaningful account." Indeed, it is an account that might be entirely true... or mostly false... or somewhere in between. We know where we stand, but that's for each listener to discover.

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A text version of this project is under production by ActsXXIX. See www.primematters.com/text.