Essay on Real Life Applications of Stories about The Forbidden Trees

If we really recognize that something is wrong, we will not do it" (Placher 101). In "The Confessions", Augustine tells a story about his life and the sin that he has committed. He begins the story of him stealing pears simply because he was able to; however, he chose to throw them away because he felt bad (Placher 101-102). Also, throughout his life he has committed adultery lusting over women, in the end with a mistress they both had a son (Placher 103-104). He was simply tempted and enjoyed the process of stealing, but was ashamed when he realized it was wrong to do so.

Things change when the serpent appeared to Eve and talked her into eating from the exact tree that God commanded them to eat from. Genesis 3:6 says, “So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate” (NIV). This is where the root of all human problems began. This is why all humans are born as sinners.

Expressing {A] solitary I would never have done it. Consequently, I additionally lived in it my relationship with the others with whom I did the deed } If it was not for him maintaining God's oath of being a Good minding companion and not being prideful or worried for just his own needs then he would not have stolen the pears. Augustine goes into extraordinary point of interest that looting the pears was better for him to do ethically than not make a feeling of group with his companions. As those jars see this is yet another reason from Augustine that places the fault on picking less malicious over selfishness as opposed to making the right decision in perfect law. I can contend this backings my keep going key point on why we intentionally do wrong and that is on account of we are affected by others to do off-base. This is an issue that influences everybody sooner or later. Our ethics are impacted by companions, relationship, legislative issues and so forth. We have a tendency to believe it's alright to sin or risk our ethics on the off chance that it implies you are doing a lesser malice for more note worthy’s benefit to help a companion

As I had entered into my boyhood around the age of five or six, I noticed that my selfish human condition had grown and manifested itself into a more complex process. That urge to attain power and authority over people and things had grown stronger and more sophisticated. The desire I once had to benefit myself by crying as an infant grew into a desire to benefit myself by cheating and stealing as a young boy. One of my earliest memories as a boy is stealing from my families close friends. The part that troubles me most is the fact that I was fully aware of the healthy relationship that existed between my family and the family I stole from. The bag of quarters I stole from them was not out of hatred or vengeance; I stole because the thought of doing something illegal while getting away with it was too enticing to resist. I saw the stealing of the money as an indication that I am a power seeking person. The fact that I would steal from friends to benefit myself proves that I have been deceiving and greedy in nature since my infancy. Although I do agree with Augustine when he introduces very

The book of Genesis records the creation of the world and everything in it, as well the early relationship between God and humanity. God creates man, Adam, “from the dust of the ground” (Genesis 2:7) and places him in a paradise on Earth called the garden of Eden, where he also places the tree of knowledge of good and evil. From the man, God creates a woman and tells them that they “may freely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil [they] shall not eat, for in the day that [they] eat of it [they] shall die (Genesis 2:16). Despite this warning, the woman, Eve, is eventually tempted to eat the fruit of the treat and convinces Adam to do the same, causing them to be cast out of the garden. Although Adam and Eve do have free will to do what they

The topic that I chose to do my writing analysis on is the pear tree incident which happened in Book II of Augustine’s Confessions. Augustine and a few of his friends go out at night and like normal teenage boys that are prone to getting into trouble. The friends that Augustine associates with influences Augustine to do immoral acts with them. Augustine felt that he needed to construct stories of the wrongful acts he has committed in his youth for the soul purpose to impress and be accepted by his friends. Augustine and his friends looking for something to get into find a pear tree close to his father’s vineyard. The pears on the tree were not even that appealing. They go into the yard and ended up stealing a large amount of the pears

accept his offering for it was all that he had and did not know how to

Throughout the Book of Genesis, the idea of knowledge emerges throughout punishment. This theme is most apparent when Adam and Eve deceive God by eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. When they do this, they are immediately given the ability to discern between right and wrong. The Bible states, "The woman saw that the tree was good for food, pleasing to the eyes, and desirable for gaining knowledge" (Genesis 3:6). Promptly Adam and Eve gain knowledge and realize their nakedness as deity punishment.

Eve was not told by God directly not to eat of the forbidden tree. Also, Eve

The gods soon became worried that Adam may become tired of finding the Tree of Life and instead settle for the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. This tree would not give Adam the knowledge

Augustine believes that when humans are in a group, the sense of pleasure in companionship over rides one’s rationality in their own pleasures. Augustine describes social pressures as through “the bond of human friendship is admirable, holding many souls as one. Yet in the enjoyment of all such things we commit sin if through immoderate inclination of them” (92). Augustine gives his personal experience in his confessions about the pear tree, and how him and his companions stole the pears and threw them to the pigs. Augustine believes humans would not act upon thievery or sin if not for friendship and companionship and the impression humans have on each other, like what modern day would call peer pressure; “O friendship […] a desire for another’s loss with no gain to oneself or vengeance to be satisfied! Someone cries, “Come on, let’s do it”- and we would be ashamed to be ashamed” (96). Augustine goes into detail about how he would not have gotten the same sense of pleasure if he were to steal the pears by himself, the pleasure came from the social group he was in and that they were sinning with him.

St. Augustine states that there was a pear tree near a vineyard, and that moment he and his group of friends shake the tree to acquire a lot of pears (29). Then they went to threw it to the pigs (29). Then here it gets really confusing when he states, “I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself” (29). So, what was the reason that he stole the pears? The reason was for evil itself! He confesses,

God told the two of them that they could eat from whichever tree they wanted, except for the Tree of Life. Out of hundreds of trees Adam and Eve could only not eat from one. That was an easy rule to obey. God was perfection and Adam and Eve obeyed him blindly. The two did not question why they could not eat from the tree.

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Furthermore, the tree of knowledge of good and evil makes reference to the decay of humanity, in the Book of Genesis, because of Adam and Eve. The fifth stanza makes clearly the link between “the fruit of Deceit” in the poem and the forbidden fruit eaten by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The first two lines of the paragraph contain a contradiction between terms which are commonly not compatible: “And it bears the fruit of Deceit / Ruddy and sweet to eat”. Indeed, “the fruit of Deceit” reveals the decadence of humanity, the sins of human beings and also the end of innocence. Besides, only because of his appellation, this fruit is supposed to be bad and bearer of misfortune. Nonetheless, “the fruit of Deceit” is described as “ruddy and sweet to eat” which gives the urge to eat it. Thus, despite the contradictions, men are corrupted by their selfish desires because “Of the Mystery over his head”. Moreover, the tree of knowledge gives birth to the nest of raven which symbolizes death: “And the raven his nest has made / In its thickest shade”. Effectively, the paradox is that the tree carries the fruit of Deceit and the nest of the raven which both signify mortality and darkness. However, near these two symbols of death stands a gorgeous and