As the book of creation presents and gleans establishment of perfection in all fronts of living, again, to my own deductions, Adam and Eve were representatives of the life Abram and Sarah's beginnings as a couple. The infancy of their relationship as a couple. Picturing Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, in almost all circumstances, if not always, any given couple of today, let alone by themselves, could practically be naked before each other. A reality which occurs in a life of any couple, which the Scriptures description of Adam and Eve. It is also too obvious to mention that it is how we all were when we came out from our mothers’ womb. An edifice of a true beginning at life with all its purity. This though, is just a tip of the iceberg. Here we would cover how "two people live in paradise." Astonishing facts derived from personal experience of Abraham with his wife-he translated as the accounts we know of as mystifying events. We may see description of life’s destiny in both the Old Testament and the New Testament as well as both in the Torah and Qur’an. It is what is termed paradise. In these books, paradise is also otherwise known as the Garden of Eden, Heaven or the New Heaven and the New Earth, a City of Kings and Priests, The New Jerusalem http://bible.cc/revelation/21-2.htm (Revelation 21:2) http://quran.com/22/56 (Kuran 22:56). Paradise, coming from a personal point of view, could therefore be likewise realized by every individual.
Abraham and Sarah as a couple, and any couple for that matter who would have or expect any company, would get dressed and cover up their nakedness. And in Adam and Eve’s case who were bound to multiply, Abraham used these level of parallelism of his own life. Hence, the "noticing of nakedness and sin." Not by the standards of being alone by themselves, but for considerations of how the norm of being proper among other people.
As truths of reality dictate, so as the story of daily struggle from childbearing, to sweat pouring from toiling, were present in the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Abraham orchestrated an ensemble of fine drama of reality, blending them within the sacred quest in the peripheral realm of divine intervention. A kind of a scenario that has the right combination to give distinction between right and wrong-repercussions and retribution, and of course, supremacy and authority. As soft as a cat’s fur is God’s grace and His will harder than flint, the first impression of His power, love, care-truly is a work of art displayed in the book of creation to have encouraged and imposed discipline in mind, heart and body.
Now, I would like to explain a little bit about a natural element the book of creation contains-the thunder. Thunder is always known to have its shocking qualities and aftermath, as it could really destroy or electrocute any living creature. Such characteristic was dovetailed with the “angry voice of God” to describe how thunders roared when God spoke about Adam and Eve’s disobedience. The sense of feel was involved in the pictured equation.
Feeling is also the subject matter and a major factor when we talk of stimulation to sexual inclination. Adam and Eve may have enjoyed the pleasures of being alone naked together, without any inhibition of things they can do together. And not to dismiss, in the lighter sense, for purposes of illustrating the sense of feel, the purity and innocence of children would also be appropriate to mention. The emphasis of the sense of feeling is enormous and great in the story. Especially with its pounding, and vibrating effects which definitely would startle anybody at a commanding level.
The display of God’s Supremacy and Might had to be illustrated, and had to start somewhere. And it really was started indeed, from grass-roots level, when the characters Adam and Eve were just themselves-like, times when we are without guard, in the truest sense of the word, like, in our “birthday clothes.”
Besides, you would see in the discussions ahead how major accounts in Holy Scriptures are fully given to life with a unique form of literature using natural elements as tools to qualify and attain utmost degree of expression and a certain casual form of understanding.
Fear-provoking accounts of in the Garden of Eden did men learn to consider greatest propensity towards obedience and respect to God. As an innate reaction to survival we learn from past mistakes. Our elders give Adam and Eve’s ordeals as an example, to illustrate the supreme sovereignty of God. We can see children's books as well as films emphasizing the book of creation. This shaped peoples’ lives in how we revere holiness and have lived a long way towards progress and harmony in society. A common knowledge since we were kids that, though, very trivial and casual, have formed part in the deep recesses of our personal lives.
In knowing good from evil we thrive at a dynamic pace to the next higher level of standards of living. Since the time of Adam and Eve until now, people have acknowledged it (knowledge of good and evil) like treasured jewels. Again, I say, the display of God’s Supremacy and might has to be illustrated, and had to start somewhere. And Genesis being the first book of the bible which means “beginning,” with the accounts of Adam and Eve were so graciously potent enough, to make men shun evil and learn from past mistakes.
Today, our awareness with our forefathers’ teachings from set laws in our respective lands, are outcome of those found in the Holy Scriptures (Books of Laws in the Bible/Torah)-an offshoot of goodness and justice. Thus, establishing peace among all the people, gleaning obedience to authority, and eliciting respect to and from men. Now, what about the serpent and Satan, where does it come in or go out, you might ask. We'd touch the subject in the chapters ahead.
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