{"id":1106,"date":"2025-08-04T18:50:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2025-11-16T00:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T16:07:30","slug":"it-wasnt-an-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/?p=1106","title":{"rendered":"From birth to doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The serpent plants the first doubt: \u201cDid God say, \u2018You shall not eat from any tree in the garden\u2019?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had a moment of enlightenment when I realised that this wasn\u2019t just about disobedience. The story was really about suspicion and distrust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maybe God is holding out on me.<\/em>
Maybe He\u2019s not as good as He says.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

And this moment is all of us as we grow up out of childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We start off as babies trusting completely. We rely on caregivers for survival. But when we become 2 or 3, we begin to lie. Not because we\u2019re taught, but <\/em>we <\/em>discover it somehow..?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we grow up then, we begin to sense what we can or cannot do. We find out the boundaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will I be punished if I do this? Can I bend the rules and get away with it? If I tell the truth will I get hurt?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Eden moment of \u201cDid God say\u2026?\u201d becomes \u201cDo I really have to tell the truth?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We doubt God\u2019s word and promises. We crave autonomy and want to be<\/em> God.
And when we get caught, we shift blame like Adam:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It wasn\u2019t me. It was her. It was You. You gave her to me.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Unapologetic and protecting ourselves. We think it’s for survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When asked how Fulton Sheen knew people weren’t taking advantage of him, Sheen replied, “I can’t take the chance”<\/strong> that they might be in genuine need.

A few days ago my husband gave $10 in cash to someone who knocked on our door asking for money. Said it was for charity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was shook. You WHAT? How did you know it was legit? What website was it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would never have handed over that cash so easily. I just don’t trust people who ask for money. My default assumption is that people could be lying and shouldn’t be trusted.

That person in the street walking up to me is probably going to sell me something I don\u2019t need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What kind of person am I if I doubt everyone who asks for help?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So maybe that\u2019s what the Fall really was.

It’s not about eating the forbidden fruit. It’s the exact moment we stopped trusting? We stopped becoming innocent and naive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe the braver, riskier thing is just to believe, like what C did.
Like Fulton Sheen<\/a>, knowing\u00a0there\u2019s risk but choosing to hope anyway.
To give, and let God decide if the recipient did good with your gift<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if it occasionally funds someone\u2019s KPods addiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The serpent plants the first doubt: \u201cDid God say, \u2018You shall not eat from any tree in the garden\u2019?\u201d I had a moment of enlightenment when I realised that this wasn\u2019t just about disobedience. The story was really about suspicion and distrust. Maybe God is holding out on me.Maybe He\u2019s not as good as He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchmyfall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}