The Bible's great partiality towards the "light" and its ensuing "blessing" of the "light" and corresponding "cursing" of the "darkness" is expressive of its originator's satiation to the point of nausea with the "tree of knowledge"
1177. But satisfying one's appetite to excess on a particular fruit or a particular food inevitably gives rise to a loathing towards this fruit or this article of food. And the "Bible's" account of this state shows us then also how excessively satiated one was with "eating of the forbidden fruit". And the "Bible", however, describes terrestrial mankind's appearance in not very elevated terms. The "serpent", the first revelation of the principle of world redemption, is called the "devil" in the "Bible" and is described as the Godhead's and the terrestrial human being's worst "enemy". And the way of living into which this revelation led the terrestrial human being is expressed as the "Fall", and those beings who appear to be in harmony with this "Fall" are expressed as "sinners". All existence, all "eating of the tree of knowledge" and the effects resulting from this are described as a "curse". We see thus that the "Bible" expresses a satiation to the point of nausea with "eating of the tree of knowledge". From its words and sentences only antipathy emanates; indeed, they downright "curse" "Adam" and "Eve's" first incipient attraction towards the "forbidden fruit" and all the unpleasant effects resulting from this. The Bible is, as mentioned in "Livets Bog", section 977, extraordinarily partial towards the existence in the light, the keeping of God's exhortation or commandment to "Adam" and "Eve", and blesses this form of existence to the same extent that it curses the "serpent's" seduction of "Eve".
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