Temptation In The Garden Of Eden by Aaron Pery

Chapter one
    God is absolutely good and
omnipotent.
    He created the entire universe--the
planets, the moons, the worlds, and even the black holes. Yet, He
did not interfere with their development or demise, letting each
expand or break and allow the evolution process or the lack of it
happen of its own volition.
    God was satisfied with His creation for
a very long time, until one day He sensed that He was leading an
utterly boring existence so He decided to spice up the world a
little by creating something new, unlike anything else in the
universe. It was to be a world constructed based on his experience
in His building the entire universe, lackadaisical though it had
been, populated with all manner of flora and fauna that were to his
liking, inhabited by people designed in his own image, who would
live on the new world He called Earth.
    The Holy Bible tells us that God's task
of building the Earth took six days to complete, which the devoutly
religious accept unquestionably while the scholars prefer to mean
an unspecified period of time for God to create his special new
world.
    By the time that God had accomplished
his great task, the Earth looked exactly as He had envisioned it to
be. Yet when He looked upon the race of man that He had created to
look like him, He was not fully satisfied since none were as good
or pure of spirit as He was. So, in order to improve on His new
creation, God added Adam to it and installed him in a paradisiacal
place that he called the Garden of Eden.
    To God's delight, Adam was very happy
with his accommodations at first. However, as he and all his
descendents proved to be in the ensuing millennias, Adam soon began
complaining about being all alone in the Garden of Eden and that he
needed to have a companion in order to be happy. Understanding
Adam's chagrin about being lonely, God created a woman for him by
using one of his ribs, then presented her as Eve to him. He did
warn both of them, though, to never behave in a sexually depraved
manner such as the people outside of Eden practiced, and that if
they did it despite His warning both would be kicked out of the
Garden as punishment and would have to live like all the others
do--toil hard for their food and shelter and live only a short
time. Adam and Eve enthusiastically agreed to live by God's
direction.
    And that's where all the trouble
began.
     

Chapter two
    In His wish to create as good a
universe as possible, God was assisted by a host of angels whose
duty it was to follow his instructions to the letter. This was
totally unpalatable to Satan, a shapeshifting serpent who refused
to comply with God's edict, and was then kicked out of heaven
together with a large coterie of like-thinking angels. Since they
had all been by God's side as he created the Earth and ensured that
it was to be his crown achievement, Satan and his group were so
enamored by it that they did not argue with God about being
banished there.
    There was one stipulation that God had
pronounced about their banishment--that the human domain was to
retain the surface of the Earth while Satan and his people were to
become the denizens of the night and forever dwell in the
underworld together with those humans who were condemned to hell,
to which Satan and his followers agreed wholeheartedly.
    To God's mind, this arrangement seemed
a good solution for the rebellious angels, now demons, and he put
the entire issue out of his mind while he was kept busy supplying
Adam with a wife and observing the two later as they seemed to
enjoy life in Eden without reservations. What He was not aware of
was the fact that by now his previous assistants had changed into
true demons who were busy looking to cause everyone, and therefore
Him, great mischief.
    It was quite a natural progression for
Satan and his demons to become thoroughly enamored with mankind's
sexual habits, particularly those that God and most people
considered to be deviant since they were not intended for
procreation but