Vatican media publishes article dismissing the realities of original sin and the devil

It is not found in Genesis—at the root of a misunderstanding The serpent, the woman and the fruit. And Satan? When reading the opening pages of the Bible, a question inevitably arises: how does the Garden of Eden—where God placed the human being "to cultivate and care for it" (Genesis 2:15)—transform from a place of delight into an abyss of despair (Genesis 3:24)? Article by Marinella Perroni, a theologian The story’s protagonists are well known to all: a serpent—the animal desert nomads considered the most insidious; a woman—whom God created because it was not good for man to be alone; and a fruit—not an apple, but the fruit of a garden where every tree was "pleasing to the eye and good for food" (Genesis 2:9). The message is clear: treachery inhabits the garden of life just as much as wonder and abundance; for this very reason, Eden serves as a primal metaphor for life—for its beauty, yet also for its tragic contradictions. Thus, in just a few strokes, one of antiquity’s most poignant …