THE FALL OF MAN PART 1V
THE ACCOUNT OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL
I'm a fairly intellectual sort of cove,
more synapses than any other tree,
I'm strong in each branch of philosophy,
I was the smartest sapling in our grove.
So my opinion is worth listening to,
since I was there right at its genesis:
I watched them fall from their original bliss,
and I have analysed the whole to-do.
Now God is said to have omnipotence,
omniscience too, but no-one that I know
thinks he's infallible; he's too gung-ho,
and I have come to doubt his prescience.
I'd like to take you through a sylogism:
if Adam and his spouse were ignorant
and had no knowledge - just a dose of cant -
it follows that they lacked the scepticism
required to see through Satan's dark intent.
Anterior insight into good and evil
is vital in disputing with the devil -
it seems to me a trifle negligent.
God should have realised free will IS free:
if what he wanted was predestination,
he could have built that into his creation,
or - better still - have left it all to me.
