Genesis 3:8-24
Trust wasn’t enough for the couple. But the Gardener will not give up on them. He won’t yield his creation to anyone or anything.
For their part, the focus of the couple has changed; it is not the Gardner. A tiny little pronoun takes over: “I” (verses 10-13). Along with it: fear, hiding, blame.
The sentence that God pronounces on them seems heavy, but we need to recall 2:17, where it was indicated that death would follow disobedience. So grace appears in the sentence given here. They have life, but it will be apart from the Garden, and it will be life that is lived hand in hand with death – but we will find God dealing with that too.
Prayer:
God, give me self-awareness without self-preoccupation. Let me see and acknowledge my own rebellion. You have inexhaustible patience with those who are honest about their sin. Hiding is doubly silly becomes I am completely transparent to you, and yet you smile on me when I admit to you what you know anyway! Apparently as well as being fully of grace, you have a sense of humour. Thanks, in your Son’s name. Amen.
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I hadn't realised all that. I hadn't heard the part where they were driven out so they would not eat of the tree of life. To be as "the gods" then is to know good and evil, and to be immortal.
The Bible must have been passed down as orally for eons, right? When was it written down to be preserved and reproduced? How would the story of Adam and Eve be passed on?
my senior paper in 4th year was about getting back to the garden, from a generally western p.o.v., but not specifically christian.
we are stardust
we are golden
and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden
i believe that even more strongly now than i did before. we no longer know how to feed ourselves nor care for eachother nor talk with god. without that, look at what we've accomplished!
don't you know
it seems to go
you don't know what you got
'til it's gone
they paved paradise
and put up a parking lot
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