Two little sisters, after listening to the biblical story of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from paradise, said to their dad:
“Dad, if Lena and I were in heaven, we would never eat the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.” After all, God didn’t allow him to be touched, did he, dad?
“True,” the father smiled and put the children to bed.
In the morning, dad got up before everyone else, caught a sparrow in the yard and put it in an opaque saucepan. Waking up the girls, he showed them a saucepan, which he placed on the windowsill of an open window in the kitchen and said:
- Please do not remove the lid from this saucepan until I come home from work. When I return, I will show you the surprise that is there. If you're obedient, I'll buy you a new game.
Dad went with mom to work, and the kids were left at home alone. They tried with all their might to distract themselves from the saucepan standing in the kitchen. They had long played all the games they knew, but curiosity haunted them - they really wanted to look into the saucepan. In the end, the eldest Masha persuaded her sister Lena, who was still afraid that dad would swear, to look into the saucepan.
“We’ll just take one peek and close it,” she said. Dad won't even know.
But as soon as Helen lifted the lid, the sparrow flew out the window. Frightened, the girls slammed the already empty saucepan. In the evening dad returned and, seeing that the saucepan was empty, said:
“Well, little Evas,” they couldn’t stand it and released the bird. So Eve could not resist trying the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.
“Dad, what kind of tree was this, and why couldn’t you eat from it,” asked Masha.
“The tree was ordinary, and the fruits were edible, but, having violated God’s prohibition, the first people themselves seemed to choose evil instead of good, because all evil begins with disobedience, and all good begins with obedience, which God would have taught the first people if they had been obedient. This sparrow was a tree of good and evil for you today, and you also did not listen to me. The test of Adam and Eve was beyond your strength.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru