The author of Genesis offers an intriguing detail in the story of the fall of Adam and Eve.
One of the most powerful passages in St. Paul’s epistles is from the second chapter of the letter to the Philippians: “Have among yourselves the same attitude that is also yours in Christ Jesus. Who, though He was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather He emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross” (2:5-6).