*So – she is not the same as him – but comparable. 18 None of the animals fit the bill, so God had to step it up.
TADAM AND EVE FREE
Please feel free to read these verses yourself and add to the conversation in the comments below! These posts will be my first thoughts from the verses that tell the stories of these couples.
TADAM AND EVE PLUS
So far, I have found about 25 couples specifically mentioned, plus a couple ‘bigger picture’ marriage references that I want to think about. I wanted to read with the intent of learning about marriage and relationships from those in the scriptures who were married.
TADAM AND EVE SERIES
Remember when Prometheus is punished by Zeus for stealing fire and giving it to mortals? Eve is kind of a female Prometheus, eating the fruit and stealing knowledge for all mortals.I’m beginning a series here on Stupendous Marriage that looks at marriage/married couples in the Bible. The Israelites' God isn't the only god who fears human advancement. That's right-God wants to be sure he stays Top Dog. But why all the harsh punishments? Well, these two have become far too god-like (3:22) and the punishments are ways of keeping them in their place. The deity, of course, isn't psyched about humanity's sudden advance. invent!) rudimentary clothing (3:7).Īdam and Eve's actions can be read as the beginning of the advance of civilization, which continues throughout the opening chapters of Genesis: Cain will construct a city (4:17), Jabal will raise livestock (4:20), Jubal will invent music (4:21), Tubal-cain will make copper and iron tools (4:22), and Noah will be the first to cultivate grapes and invent wine (9:19-21). And they successfully complete the first of humanity's cultural achievements when they sew (i.e. They become more like gods, as both the serpent and the deity recognize (3:5, 22). Her act of reaching for the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (3:6-7) is archetypal not of humanity's failure, but of humanity's relentless striving for knowledge, morality, culture, and civilization.Īfter all, what happens after Adam and Eve eat the fruit? They gain knowledge of good and evil (3:5). Here, Eve is a hero who wins culture for humanity. After all, stalwarts like Paul, John Milton, and Martin Luther read the story this way and have kind of conditioned us to do the same.īut what if we change things up? Hear us out for reading #2. Reading the story of Adam and Eve as "The Fall" is probably the most familiar way for most of us. Just to underline the point, the name Adam is simply a transliteration of the Hebrew word meaning "man" ( 'adam). Don't even try to sneak in-fierce otherworldly warriors and a flaming, revolving sword stand guard (3:21-24). Because of Adam and Eve, all of humanity is forever banished from Eden and can't gain access to the tree of life. When we look at it this way, Adam and Eve are the archetypal human beings who are disobedient, sinful, and prone to suffering. Surprise, surprise.Īs a result of their eating, which might be understood as disobedience to God and hence the first sin, the two's idyllic existence is radically transformed into the kind of life that is more familiar to us mortals: death (3:19), endless labor (3:18-19), infertile soil (3:17-18), patriarchy (3:16), painful child-bearing (3:16), the threat of snake-bite (3:15), blame (3:12-13), shame (3:7, 10), awareness of nudity (3:7, 10), the need for clothing (3:7), and estrangement from the deity (3:8-9). The one thing that's off limits is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, whose fruit God forbids them to eat (2:16-17).
See, these two are leading a totally idyllic existence: in the buff with no shame (2:25) and in a garden, with fruit trees (2:9), cool breezes (3:8), rivers (2:10), and a deity who's known to visit them while strolling in the evening (3:8).
After all, their story is normally referred to as The Fall-that can't be good. Adam and Eve usually get a pretty bad rap.
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