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    In The Beginning: After Dinner Conversation, #50
    In The Beginning: After Dinner Conversation, #50
    In The Beginning: After Dinner Conversation, #50
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    In The Beginning: After Dinner Conversation, #50

    By Joe Vasicek

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    "'Knowledge of good and evil'...would you really want to know?"

     

    Synopsis: A retelling of Adam and Eve's fall from grace, with a cosmic twist.

    After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.

    Podcast discussion of this short story, and others, is available on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and Youtube.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAfter Dinner Conversation
    Release dateJun 2, 2020
    ISBN9781393811428
    In The Beginning: After Dinner Conversation, #50

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      In The Beginning - Joe Vasicek

      In The Beginning

      After Dinner Conversation Series

      THERE WAS A SNAKE IN the garden. Adam didn’t know how he knew it, but he did. Father? he called out cautiously. But Father did not answer him.

      The garden was a beautiful place, full of flowers, fruit trees, and animals of every kind. Nothing like a snake, though: these animals did not hurt each other, because the garden took care of them. All Adam had to do was ask for what he needed, and a new plant would grow spontaneously to provide it for him.

      The garden was everything that Adam had ever known. Father had put him there from the moment of his creation, when he’d breathed life into his body and turned him into a living soul. Adam couldn’t remember how long ago that was, but that was okay because time didn’t matter. Nothing ever changed in the garden.

      That isn’t true.

      He looked up, startled to see a man sitting on a nearby rock, wearing elegant robes. There was something familiar about him, though Adam couldn’t quite place it.

      What do you mean, it isn’t true?

      The garden. It doesn’t stay the same, and it isn’t the only place you’ve known. It’s an artificial world, patterned after the old one we both came from.

      Adam frowned. I don’t know anything about another world.

      That is because you have forgotten everything.

      The words of the stranger troubled him almost as much as his very existence. Adam wanted to say that he was wrong, but couldn’t.

      "You must

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