Saturday, July 6, 2013

The Forbidden Fruit and Adam's Response

“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.

1 comment:

  1. They were concerned with their INDIVIDUAL nakedness rather then EACH OTHERS nakedness.They became their own 'gods'. They were self engrossed. Selfish. Sinners. They loved themselves rather then God or each other.
    "Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves." (Gen 3:7)
    See that they made lioncloths for THEMSELVES and NOT each other.
    Here we see also self justification come into play. They didn't confess their sin, but rather hid from God and each other because of the consequence of their sin.
    Just like us. We love the sin, but hate the consequences and what it produces. Adam was fine with eating the fruit. It was being naked that bothered him. And there it is. Adam and Eve were sinners. There was no way back. They had become 'another creation'. They had officially become the walking dead.

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