The Banishment: All Good Stories Have a Dramatic Ending

All good stories have a dramatic ending. The really great epics, though, are such that they are only a prequel to a sequel. There is always more coming.

Adam and Eve were no longer a good fit to the perfection and ease in the Garden of Eden. Their relationship with their Creator was altered. Although tritely worded and simplistically spoken on my part, it was God's game. God's rules. Break the rules, you are out of the game. Gotta move on. New game. New rules.

Thus, the banishment from Paradise. Never to return to that state of Original Innocence and Perfection. The Tree of Life, access to Eternal Life, was guarded by an angel with a sword.

This is what it feels like to be on the outside looking in.

Internet Fair Use - Gustave Dore's The Banishment