The account of the Fall in Genesis demonstrates that we inevitably cope with this anxiety by taking matters into our own hands. Just as Adam and Eve partook of the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil on the false promise that once they did they would “be as gods,” we grasp for a degree of control over our own fate that our creaturely limitations simply cannot sustain. Original sin describes the inevitability with which we seek to control what God alone can.
