Why do men sin?
It’s an ancient and layered question. A question which women have probably asked since they were first blamed for bringing sin into the world. The Ancient Greeks blamed Pandora, Christianity and Islam blame Adam and Eve.
I think the answer depends upon the concept of sin: the first layer of the question. Collins dictionary uses a Christian definition: sin is a transgression of God’s will. A simple concept but the Bible seems contradictory because it says that Adam was without sin until he ate the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. He did this at the behest of Eve but he knew it would be a sin because God had forbidden him to eat it.
If he were without sin, he would not have eaten the fruit. He must have had, therefore, a more fundamental motive and it seems to me that the presence of naked totty, as Eve is always depicted, was sufficient provocation for him to transgress God’s will. Eve did not bring sin into the world on her own, which still begs the question of why men sin.
For me, perhaps in the same vein as Adam, the answer was that I could not resist temptation and avoid the trouble with girls. This poses the further, and second layer, question of why women offer temptation, why they want to make men sin. Is it to attract a mate, satisfy an ego, satiate libido or simply to have what they cannot have; be it one man or many?
And how do women offer men such temptation that they are so willing to sin; the third layer of the question? This brings us back to the forbidden fruit. The Bible does not mention apples. The book of Genesis only refers to the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge and an apple being the fruit of sin was the invention of Renaissance painters in Europe.
So, if not an apple, what is the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge? It seems to me that the forbidden fruit is warm and soft and comes in pairs. A woman grows with them and quickly learns of their power, soon realising that once a man has tasted such fruit, he’ll be forever a sinner.
This was certainly how I fell into temptation. I had been on patrol to al Qu’rna where the two great rivers of Mesopotamia, the Tigris and the Euphrates, meet in Southern Iraq. The Shia claim it is the Garden of Eden. When I got back to HQ in Basra there was a young female corporal on duty.
“You look a bit hot,” I said. It was a casual remark.
“Yes, sir. I’ve been to the gym,” she replied. Then she looked at me directly. “I forgot my underwear.” She gently shook her shoulders and I tried to resist temptation but like Adam, I transgressed; she had such lovely fruit.
I think the answer depends upon the concept of sin: the first layer of the question. Collins dictionary uses a Christian definition: sin is a transgression of God’s will. A simple concept but the Bible seems contradictory because it says that Adam was without sin until he ate the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. He did this at the behest of Eve but he knew it would be a sin because God had forbidden him to eat it.
If he were without sin, he would not have eaten the fruit. He must have had, therefore, a more fundamental motive and it seems to me that the presence of naked totty, as Eve is always depicted, was sufficient provocation for him to transgress God’s will. Eve did not bring sin into the world on her own, which still begs the question of why men sin.
For me, perhaps in the same vein as Adam, the answer was that I could not resist temptation and avoid the trouble with girls. This poses the further, and second layer, question of why women offer temptation, why they want to make men sin. Is it to attract a mate, satisfy an ego, satiate libido or simply to have what they cannot have; be it one man or many?
And how do women offer men such temptation that they are so willing to sin; the third layer of the question? This brings us back to the forbidden fruit. The Bible does not mention apples. The book of Genesis only refers to the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge and an apple being the fruit of sin was the invention of Renaissance painters in Europe.
So, if not an apple, what is the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge? It seems to me that the forbidden fruit is warm and soft and comes in pairs. A woman grows with them and quickly learns of their power, soon realising that once a man has tasted such fruit, he’ll be forever a sinner.
This was certainly how I fell into temptation. I had been on patrol to al Qu’rna where the two great rivers of Mesopotamia, the Tigris and the Euphrates, meet in Southern Iraq. The Shia claim it is the Garden of Eden. When I got back to HQ in Basra there was a young female corporal on duty.
“You look a bit hot,” I said. It was a casual remark.
“Yes, sir. I’ve been to the gym,” she replied. Then she looked at me directly. “I forgot my underwear.” She gently shook her shoulders and I tried to resist temptation but like Adam, I transgressed; she had such lovely fruit.
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