By David C. Leach and Paul B. Batalden

Thomas Merton once asked his novices: “What was Adam’s sin?”  He then answered his own question by saying: “It was that he wanted to do good.”  The knowledge obtained from eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, coupled with the serpent’s seductive approach announcing that now he could be really good and show God his abilities introduced Adam to pride.  Instead of being nurtured by his relationship with God he settled for self-sufficiency and we all know the result…
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