“And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the
garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the
presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called
to the man and said to him, “Where are
you?” And he said, “I heard the sound
of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.”
He said, “Who told you that you were
naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” The
man said, “The woman whom you gave to be
with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” Then the Lord God said
to the woman, “What is this that you have
done?” The woman said, “The serpent
deceived me, and I ate.” Genesis 3:8-13
At the moment I am attending Liberty University, a Christian
college, and I’m working on my degree online. Very often our course work
requires us to incorporate scripture into our assignments as we work to integrate
faith and the world of psychology.
Last night I was working on an assignment and
I chose to use the above text depicting the Fall of Man in the garden. As I was
working on my assignment and looking closely at the text I found it interesting
that when Adam and Eve hid, they hid because of their nakedness, not because
they had broken a command. Adam said “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and
I was afraid, BECAUSE I WAS NAKED, and I hid myself". He did not even mention
eating the fruit. Now maybe it is implied that is why he hid, I don’t know. I
just found it interesting the reason Adam gave was that he hid because of his
nakedness.
I have my own ideas, I was wondering what some other
thinkers might think.
