“The question began in 1995.”
As a sophomore in theological studies, I was haunted by a riddlethat had lingered since my childhood: “Why did Adam really eat the fruit?”
That question led me to dive deeply into the original texts. In my earliest encounters with Hebrew, the Greek Septuagint (LXX), and the Latin Vulgate, I began to notice subtle cracks in the traditional interpretations I had long taken for granted.
TThis exploration eventually became my graduation thesis, a small and unassuming work titled “A Systematic Theological Approach to Genesis 3:22.”
That thesis laid the foundation for much of my theological thinking. Over the next thirty years—through lectures, sermons, and years of ministry in the field—those early insights were refined, tested, and allowed to mature.
Now, that thirty-year journey is finally ready to be shared in my upcoming book. In this Book Preview, I will offer fragments of that long process—the wrestlings with ancient texts and the questions that kept me awake at night.