Biblically speaking, we are gods
"I have said: You are gods." (Ps 82:6)
Biologically speaking, human beings are apes (Hominidae).
Biblically speaking, human beings are gods.
Adam and Eve
According to the second biblical story of creation [Genesis 2:4b–3:2], Adam and Eve were expelled from paradise because they ate fruit from the tree to categorize good and evil.
The tree to categorize good and evil gave Adam and Eve the ability to categorize something as good or not good in itself.
- Before Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, they could categorize something as good or not good for something, but they could not categorize something as good or not good in itself.
- After Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, they could also categorize something as good or not good in itself.
With the ability to categorize something as good or not good in itself, Adam and Eve categorized nakedness as not good. Therefore, they sewed together fig-tree leaves.
When Adam and Eve categorized nakedness as not good, nakedness was not good. No matter what God might have said or done.
With the ability to categorize something as good or not good in itself, Adam and Eve had become "like god" (Gn 3:5).
Genesis 2:4b—3:24 is undoubtedly a myth, but Genesis 2:4b—3:24 is a myth with a message. The message is: Human beings are gods expelled from paradise.
The human race descends from Eve, and the human race inherits from Eve the ability to categorize something as good or not good in itself.
Apes do not have that same ability.
Apes can categorize something as good or not good for something, but apes cannot categorize something as good or not good in itself.
Human beings are gods. Apes are not gods.