My trip to the dentist the other day got me thinking. . .
If Eve had never taken that first bite of that apple, would we still get cavities? Maybe - just maybe - the Garden of Eden wouldn't include dentists in their list of neighborhood residents.
But then I realized that if Eve didn't take that first bite, Adam probably would have come home early one night before Eve got home from work, all wondering-what-was-for-dinner-like. And he would have been like, Oh these shiny red things look good. . . wonder why Eve never serves them to me. . . probably holding back on me on purpose. . . she always does that. . . . and that big dummy would have forgotten all about God's warning and eaten the apple anyway.
And even - if by some stretch of the imagination - both Adam and Eve had refrained from eating those apples, they would have been doomed as soon as their daughter (Oh yes, they had a daughter. . .never heard of her? Well besides their sons Cain and Abel they had a daughter named Witchy. . . I swear!) hit puberty, cause if you tell a teenage girl not to do something, you are pretty-much guaranteed that she's gonna run right off and do it the minute she's out of your sight!
So I guess I need to come to terms with the fact that we were always destined to sit in a dentist chair with some guy with a big mask staring down at you while another assistant holds this big sucky thing in your mouth that every once in a while gets stuck on your tongue and makes this whoosh sound.
But then I got to wonderin' . . what if they had thrown either the daughter or the dentist (or both!) off the side of Noah's Ark? Now that, my friends, just might have done the trick!
If Eve had never taken that first bite of that apple, would we still get cavities? Maybe - just maybe - the Garden of Eden wouldn't include dentists in their list of neighborhood residents.
But then I realized that if Eve didn't take that first bite, Adam probably would have come home early one night before Eve got home from work, all wondering-what-was-for-dinner-like. And he would have been like, Oh these shiny red things look good. . . wonder why Eve never serves them to me. . . probably holding back on me on purpose. . . she always does that. . . . and that big dummy would have forgotten all about God's warning and eaten the apple anyway.
And even - if by some stretch of the imagination - both Adam and Eve had refrained from eating those apples, they would have been doomed as soon as their daughter (Oh yes, they had a daughter. . .never heard of her? Well besides their sons Cain and Abel they had a daughter named Witchy. . . I swear!) hit puberty, cause if you tell a teenage girl not to do something, you are pretty-much guaranteed that she's gonna run right off and do it the minute she's out of your sight!
So I guess I need to come to terms with the fact that we were always destined to sit in a dentist chair with some guy with a big mask staring down at you while another assistant holds this big sucky thing in your mouth that every once in a while gets stuck on your tongue and makes this whoosh sound.
But then I got to wonderin' . . what if they had thrown either the daughter or the dentist (or both!) off the side of Noah's Ark? Now that, my friends, just might have done the trick!
