Back To The Garden

"Back To The Garden" is a mini-story that is part of the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series.

The Story
One day Empath and Smurfette joined Tapper in an Imaginarium setting that he had chosen to visit. There the three of them saw the most beautiful garden that had ever existed.

"Great Ancestors," Empath exclaimed as he looked at the surroundings. "This smurf never thought to behold such wondrous beauty even in an Imaginarium setting."

"But what is this place that we are visiting, Tapper?" Smurfette asked.

"This is the garden of Eden, my fellow Smurfette, which the Almighty had created when He had smurfed the heavens and the earth during His six days of creation," Tapper said. "It is where He had smurfed the first man and the first woman to populate the earth."

"But Brainy says that the earth is millions of years old, Tapper," Empath said. "How does that connect with what your holy book seems to say about the age of the world?"

"I have to confess that I just simply don't know all the answers, my fellow Empath," Tapper said. "But that in itself doesn't make the words of the Almighty any less true. It all smurfs down to having faith in the One who does know everything and who has smurfed the end from the beginning."

"What is that tree in the middle of the garden that's so different from the others?" Smurfette asked, pointing to a specific tree.

"That is the Tree Of Life, my dear Smurfette," Tapper answered. "It is one of many trees that Adam and Eve, the first two humans, could smurf from, but that tree is very special in that it could smurf eternal life unto whoever smurfs from its fruit."

"This smurf remembers seeing that tree in this smurf's dreams, Tapper," Empath said. "Unfortunately, when this smurf tried to get near the tree, it was surrounded by a ring of tree that just sprang up from out of nowhere."

"That unfortunately is a message from the Almighty that no one but those who are redeemed in the blood of His only begotten Son can smurf from the tree, Empath," Tapper said. "He did say in the book of Revelation that those who are overcomers can smurf from the Tree Of Life, which is now in the paradise of God."

"Oooh, that tree smurfs even more beautiful than the Tree Of Life, and its fruit smurfs really delicious," Smurfette said, as her attention was drawn to another tree.

"That is the Tree Of The Knowledge Of Good And Evil, Smurfette," Tapper said. "That is the one tree the Almighty said that they could never smurf from, for on the day that they would eat of the tree, they would surely die."

"But they really didn't die on the day that they ate of its fruit, Tapper," Empath said. "How could you explain that?"

"Well, given that they were the first two humans that the Almighty had smurfed, I believe that it was simply His first act of grace and mercy that He had smurfed upon His creation, Empath," Tapper said. "Had neither of them smurfed from the tree in the first place, the punishment might surely smurf into effect for whoever else would have been smurfed from Adam and Eve, but that's something that we'll never know for sure."

"But what's wrong with what Adam and Eve have smurfed, Tapper?" Smurfette asked. "Wouldn't it be better for them to know what is good and evil?"

"What's wrong with what they smurfed is that they simply didn't trust in what the Almighty had smurfed them regarding the tree, but instead believed the lie of the serpent, who in Revelation is revealed to be Satan," Tapper said. "They were smurfed into believing that the Almighty was smurfing something good from them, but in reality what the Almighty was doing was trying to smurf something bad from them, something that in His infinite wisdom knew would corrupt all of His creation, including us."

To be expanded on.