Leave gardening

As Third Way went to press, yet more gloom was gathering around parliament as more MPs fell on swords held steady by the Daily Telegraph, and cabinet members set about plotting new post-Gordon futures. Meanwhile, the economic crisis barrelled on, with job losses reaching figures not seen since the 1980s.

So it seems like the perfect time to be talking about gardening.

This may not be quite the leap that it seems. Reports from the Chelsea Flower Show …

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Comments

Jim Antill

Obviously not to be taken too seriously. But gardening was clearly not Adam’s curse because he was a gardener before it. As I read it gardening was the activity intended for him. In fact part of his punishment was to be banished from that particular garden. Adam was still a gardener but the job description changed and it all became a lot harder. Even so he was still required to continue in that activity; he wasn’t supposed to just let it go. Similarly the comment on Cain’s offering appears be somewhat offbeam, and it seem to me that it was the manner of the offering rather than the offering itself that was at fault. I know the article was light hearted with a serious point to be made, but I would suggest it was lost was in danger of being lost by some rather sloppy biblical interpretation

Posted: 14 August 2009