It is impossible to taste the sweet without having first tasted the sour. This is one of the many lessons found within Genesis 2.0 and more specifically the story of Adam and Eve. It is also from this twisted tale of betrayal and deceit that we gain our knowledge of mankind's free will, and God's intentions regarding this human capacity. There is one school of thought which believes that life is mapped out with no regard for individual choice while contrary belief tells us that mankind is capable of free will and therefore has control over hisown life and the consequences of his actions. The story of Adam and Eve and the time they spent inparadise? again and again points to the latter as the truth. Confirming that God not only gave mankind the ability to think for himself but also the skills needed to take responsibility for those thoughts and the actions that they produced. .
Within the Garden of Eden God placed two exquisite trees. Each quite different in its purpose, however both proved to play an integral role in the tale of man's beginning. Perhaps the better known of the two, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, was the only one, which God imposed a contingency upon. You many freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of if you shall die.? Is this to imply that knowledge is perhaps more important and therefore more closely guarded than life? .
After just a first reading this may seem to be true, however upon further analysis it becomes apparent that God's intention was not to imply that knowledge was more significant than life, but instead that it cannot be appreciated without first possessing knowledge of both good and evil.
See the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever.
Will we ever know if Adam and Eve were set up or were they at risk of free will? ... We have a choice just as Adam and Eve did. ... How do we know that this isn't the first time Adam and Eve were sinning in the Garden of Eden? ... That puts me in a frame of mind; were Adam and Eve created to be childlike or were they fully mature? I believe that Adam and Eve were created as fully mature adults. ...
Similarly, Satan questions Adam and Eve's condition as superior creatures. ... God's authority forces Adam and Eve to repress all that is natural to them. ... In a sense, Satan believes that he is Adam and Eve's liberator from this ignorant faith and obedience. In reality, Adam and Eve were already destined to free themselves and gain knowledge of good and evil. Just as Satan was destined to fall from Heaven, so were Adam and Eve from Eden. ...
Hans Baldung's famous painting, Eve, the Serpent, and Death, takes the theme from Adam and Eve's eviction from the Garden of Eden, and paints it into a portrayal of curiosity, betrayal and death. ... Adam holds the fruit in the air, seemingly tempting Eve to join him and eat the forbidden pleasure. ... In the story of Adam and Eve, the couple betrays God by eating the fruit he distinctly tells them not to. This differs from the painting, as it shows Eve betraying Adam. ... Throughout the story however, Adam and Eve never intentionally turn on each other. ...
Knowing this bit of information makes the story of Adam and Eve have a bit of an psychoanalytic glow. In the beginning of Adam and Eve's account of their creation God created Adam using the lowest element of the Earth, the dust. ... As the story progresses, God sees that Adam is alone and takes one of Adam's ribs and forms Eve. ... And when Adam sees that Eve partakes of the fruit he feels compelled to do the same. ... As God was walking in the Garden of Eden he beckoned Adam and Eve to come forth but they did not. ...
Adam and Eve cared for the earth and guided its proper use. Adam and Eve were to replenish and multiply the Earth. ... Adam and Eve were made in God's image. ... The trust and love between Adam and Eve vanished. ... God made Adam and Eve's situation better. ...
If I had to narrow the choices down, I would go all the way back in time to Adam and Eve. ... If Adam and Eve had never sinned would the world still be what it is today? ... Before the fall of man, Adam and Eve had a personal, physical relationship with God. ... I would love to meet the first people to roam on this earth, Adam and Eve. ... Yet myself, a Christian, know the truth that God gave us life, which originated with Adam and Eve. ...
After God had noticed that Adam needed a companion, He created Eve out of Adam's body parts. ... Milton believed that Eve was the image of Adam rather than God. ... Milton frequently notes how Eve is inferior to Adam. ... After Eve separates from Adam for a moment, she proves herself to be independent and more than just half of Adam. ... Therefore, Adam should bear the same amount of guilt as Eve. ...
In his book The Diaries of Adam and Eve, Mark Twain takes spin on the story of Adam and Eve. ... Adam violates Grice's guidelines too, but not as frequently as Eve. ... Eve is made out to be more aesthetic and self-conscious than Adam. ... Again as we just read Adam is very obscure about Eve again, violating Grice's guideline. Eve adores Adam and remains unaffected by his discomfort. ...
Milton's Paradise successfully serves as a paradise for Adam and Eve because it induces unqualified happiness in its inhabitants by engendering a sense of self-worth in Adam and Eve. ... In order for Eden to serve as paradise for Adam and Eve, it must make them happy. ... Adam and Eve's mastery over Paradise represents the initial formation of their sense of self-worth. ... Not only do their labors link them to God, but they also provide Adam and Eve with dignity. ... Adam and Eve's sense of self-worth grows in their relationship with each other. ...
