Claim. The biblical detail that Adam and Eve covered their sexual parts after eating “the fruit” — not their mouths, hands, or eyes — is the diagnostic that exposes the Fall as a sexual rather than dietary event.
Elaboration. SMM uses the genitalia-covering detail as a textual proof: “In order to do so, she would have had to first see it with her eyes, then move her hands to pick it, and finally eat it with her mouth. In order to have taken and eaten, the eyes, hands and mouth must all have been involved… they actually covered their sexual parts. That is the problem” (4.1. Covering their sexual parts was an indication of sin, 54-62, 1972.3.11). The materialist alternative is rejected as incoherent: “If you say that a spiritual entity fell because a person ate something material, then how is it different from communist theory, which claims that spirit arises from matter? Did the human spirit fall because someone ate something material?” (ibid, 41-292, 1971.2.17). And the commandment is re-read as a maturity-restriction: “the commandment, ‘Do not eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,’ actually meant, ‘Wait until you become mature’” (ibid, 171-11, 1987.12.5). The body-part covered is the textual key.
See also. fall