Yeah, I think the story of Adam and Eve have a lot of layers and can represent a lot of things but all in the same concept.
So, there are a lot of passages about false prophets all through the bible. They come with a message of deception.
And those with itching ears listen to them...
2Ti 4:3
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
Well God said don't eat because if you do you will die. Thats sound doctrine right there.
But who did they listen to? Is the snake a somebody or is it themselves?
The other assumption people make is that only Adam and Eve inhabited Eden. I believe the Bible is the ancestry or family tree of Israel.
The other nations seem somehow to get cut off and are only mentioned here and there, like Esau/Edom and Ishmael... these paths never go into details about their lives their history. So the bible is exclusive to Israel (flesh) until the NT (spirit) is knitted to it.
So let's say there are other nations not recorded in Eden, the closest neighbor is Egypt.
And we know Egypt was dabbling with a lot of pagantry. Idols, they had their own set of laws and rules and gods.
And then you go to the NT and Jesus is calling the Pharisees hypocrites, John is calling them vipers.
So who or what was in the garden with them?
Another thing I think about is the idol of the snake Moses made and put upon a pole. So when they got bit, if they looked to it it would save them.
And we know the meaning of Jesus on the cross.
But let's look backwards.
Why a snake on a pole, like a tree in the garden. Was it an idol they had made and went to for council?
2Ki 1:6
And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD,
Is it not because
there is not a God in Israel,
that thou sendest to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
Think about the commandments.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
We don't know the length of time from the 6th day sundown until the Lord returned to the garden.
It could of been a thousand years as a day. In that day, that they would eat, they would die.
So over a passage of time, not knowing where the goodman of the vineyard was... parables..
did they abuse their position, did they take other gods as Aaron had done with the golden calf?
There is a LOT going on in that first and second chapter of Genesis. I don't think we can even see the whole picture,
because there is a little here and a little there like pieces of a puzzle written through the entire bible.
And maybe that one story covers a whole lot of stories, because it is the foundation of man and his ways,
Unlike Christ is the foundation of God and his ways.
There two levels of understanding written in them pages. The carnal and the spiritual. And we are told to rightly divide them.
But we can't rightly divide anything without the Holy Spirit leading us.
And sometimes if he don't think your ready to know, he'll keep you digging until it is.
I'm still digging on a lot of things.
But it keeps me hungry for the word. It keeps me coming back for more.
If we knew everything, why would we need to ask, seek, and find?
It's the digging, thats the work that is a good work, when we take it to the Lord.
Think of when you have a new understanding or learn a new meaning as a sacrificial gift you give to God and say.
I found this! and you give it to him and he either accepts it or rejects it.
If it is rejected we shouldn't get angry like Cain did and slaughter someone else because what you found was vanity.
You keep digging until you find that pearl.
I don't even know if I touched on your question sorry..
I'm just rambling and I got these wings I'm checking out. I feel like I'm flying
I left my pick and shovel on the ground below me and my head is in the clouds!
LOL
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