A deeper exploration of the garden

In the previous post, the grounds for this blog were laid out and the concept of utopia exemplified by the biblical Garden of Eden. As was previously explained, this place was very near to perfect with only one flaw in its setup; the garden had a tree the fruit of which the humans were forbiden to partake of. Seemingly, this was not a particularly difficult command to obey when the choice was to enjoy a lush, beautiful, land of plenty or to eat the fruit of one tree.

As is made apparent by their failure to obey, there was something more deeply wrong than the tree's existance. Even the serpent who tried to convince them to eat this one piece of fruit should have easily ignored as it appears obvious to us that it was trying to trick them. They did not ignore its trickery, and chose to eat the fruit. There are two explanations for this failure:

1.) One explanation is that of human nature. The humans were naturally curious about the fruit and are naturally imperfect, thus they ate the fruit out of the inept flaws in their character and to quell their curiosity. As the saying goes, "curiosity killed the cat," and here it got humans kicked out of paradise.

2.) A second explanation is found in and of the choice they made, and that they had the opportunity to choose. With the ability to choose comes the responsibility of choice, and the resulting opportunity to choose wrong. From the point of view of an onlooker, the humans chose wrong.

While the humans seem to have made a bad decision causing them to be thrown out of the utopia of the garden, was it really the wrong choice? Within the "perfect" community, they had their choices made for them, as it was chosen for them that they would not partake of the forbidden fruit. This lack of choice that made the utopia continue to exist can be seen to have been its downfall, and raises a question; do we want the stability of being in a community/society in which our choices are made for us in order to keep us from becoming unhappy, or do we want the ability to make our own choices and accept the responsibility and troubles that arise from them?