Unraveling The Word

John 8:31-32 GNB So Jesus said to those who believed in him, "If you obey my teaching, you are really my disciples; 32 you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Adam's Sin Was God's Will.

This is an analysis of Genesis Chapters one, two, and, three on Adam and Eve, from what I could discern from my interlinear Bible project found at http://www.UnravelingTheWord.info (note that the English text is read as Hebrew: form right-to-left). First of all we must understand that at one time there was never such a thing as chapters and verse in the Bible. Each book consisted of a continuous scroll of un-pointed un-punctuated Hebrew text. This fact is helpful in understanding how the many stories in the Bible are written. Generally a story is first summarized, then the significant details are presented thereafter. So if we look a the creation account with these facts in mind we see that in Chapter two it starts out with God resting on the seventh day from all his work from the previous six days of creation and then it goes into detail about the sixth day when God created Adam and Eve. What we see, seems as if Adam is created before any plants or animals, as if no animals existed on the earth, and then God creates the animals and brings them to the man to name. It is likely, however, that God created Adam in a region on the earth which was desert like in nature and at first void of trees or animals in order to show Adam a distinction between what good God can give him and what bad there can be without God's guidance. Adam was simply in a place where no animals or plants yet lived, and the Garden was likely made this way too, in a place surrounded by desert. So the animals existed, just not where Adam happened to be. It also seems as if the Garden was planted after Adam was created but it was likely planted before he was made. It is therefore likely that Adam spent a sufficient amount of time outside the garden in order to know where he came from, before he was placed in the Garden where he would have food and shade. After his sin he was to till the ground he was originally made to till but rather than having to tend to the beautiful fruit trees as found in the garden, he is to tend with thorns and thistles working on his own power to get food to grow, then die in the place he was made. Thus a clear distinction between life and death, and good and bad. Adam finds out the meaning of the difference between the knowledge of good and evil. The knowledge of good is for Mankind to obey God and the knowledge of evil is for mankind to disobey God. That simple! We find that the garden was made in order to discipline Adam in this way, we also find that because Adam and Eve were without shame before they ate they at least came to know about sex after they ate and what sex was for, namely to make children. Because of these facts we are forced to conclude that Adam's sin occurred on the sixth day and not as most assume on the seventh. Notice that after Adam sins he gives his wife the name Eve which means life-giver, because she was to become the mother of everyone living. But notice also that after God created both the male and female humans in his image, as found in Genesis Chapter one, we see that they are commanded to fill the earth, the place Adam was taken, and to subdue it, then we see the sixth day end on a very good note. This all shows that they sinned on the sixth day, not the seventh, it shows that Adam was set up to fail in order to be disciplined, and it shows that it was all very good in the eyes of God. Another line of evidence pointing to God's will for Adam to sin, is that Adam's expulsion from the Garden is foreshadowed by God after Adam is given his wife found in Genesis 2:24, one way to translate it is that Adam would forsake his Heavenly Parents and become one with his wife, but this would extend to Adam's sons too. And we know that Adam and Eve must have both existed on the sixth day from Genesis 1:27. (more to come)

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