Satan: a Fall from Grace

The Rebel

Look at them,  Adam and Eve, they are so innocent, and simple.  They know nothing of the world but of what God tells them they should know.  I would say it was sad, but I assume ignorance is a form of bliss.  

At least for Adam it is.  Adam is perfectly happy.  He runs around all day and sleeps all night,  with not a care in the world to bother him.  Oh, but Eve, poor, poor Eve, she is not near as content.  She's a bit smarter than Adam, but Adam doesn't need to know that.  She wouldn't wanna be the next Lilith, eh?

The life Eve lives bothers her, but not in a way she can quite put her finger on.  Poor Girl, I will help her to find a way from this melancholy.

Here I go a creature made from fire, down from my home in the sky to help this creature of the dust.

 I don't want to scare her, though, so I'll appear to her in a form she will not recognize.  Something she won't recognize, but something that won't scare her either.  And so I invented the serpent.  I followed Eve a bit, all stealthy-like, whilst Adam was playing with the hounds.  Oh... look here... she's going somewhere knew to-day... but no, she wouldn't ever visit the tree.  But she has!  She's going where she mustn't, even though it's not really wrong, she could use a little convincing to do what she needs to.

"Ah-hem," I cleared my throat, trying not to startle the poor girl, "Eve? Eve what are you doing here?"

"Who is that? Adam?" She squelched, frightened she might be caught.

"No, this is not Adam. I am Sataniel, one of Gods messengers.  Eve, what are you doing near the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil?" 

"I came to look at the tree a little closer... is that bad?" She already sounded guilty.  She didn't even lie.

"Eve, you do know not to eat of that fruit, don't you?"

"Yes, I'm sor-"

"But, Eve, why can't you eat the fruit?  It may seem odd to ask, I know, but why can't you? I've actually been considering this myself.  It's supposed to give you knowledge, make you wise, right?  So why wouldn't God want you to eat it?  Those things are good, aren't they?"

"I don't know..." 

"I was thinking, Eve, hun, that maybe... maybe God's just a bit jealous of what you might become if you ate that fruit.  God knows... God knows, that when you eat that fruit, you'll be like him.  You'll be a God too.  Then you'll know what's been bothering you, dear, right?"

"I supp -... What kind of Messenger are you?  Are you telling me to disobey the Lord's only law? Anyway, God said if anyone ate the fruit, they would surely die."

"No, hun, just listen.  God knows that if you eat the fruit, you surely will not die but you'll start to live."

I've been crawling up the tree during this little conversation, and I've taken one of the fruit in my tail.

"Come on, hun, just take a bite.  You're just hungry, and its no good to be hungry.  Don't you want to live?"

"Yes... I do want to live."

She took the fruit gingerly, and after a long pause simple looking at it, she took a little bite.  The color drained from her face and from her eyes, but there was some thing new.  Something beautiful, behind her newfound embarassment at her nakedness, was growing.  She was becoming Rebellious.

And you know the rest.  We sorta teamed up and got Adam to take a bite.  It was a bit harder.  Then God came rumbling down, all by himself, no angels, no nothing.  Oh, and was he mad.  He punished the three of us,  Eve was to have pain in childbirth, Adam was to work in the fields for food, and they were both to leave the garden.  And me, well my great idea for the serpent was punished, God made more, but without legs.  They had to crawl on the ground forever.  And he made sure that Man and Woman would never listen to the serpent again.  He made them hate the serpent. 

God sent me into hiding, like a child into his corner.  Rebellion is dangerous kids.