Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Adam and Eve
lately ive been thinking a lot about adam and eve. i've heard the story so many times in my past but the last time i sat down to read it..countless questions entered my mind. i'm not going to even try to put these in order...im just going to fire away with questions. first of all i wonder what it was like for adam and eve, knowing they were the only human beings on earth....i wonder how big they thought the earth was... after the fall of man, did they ever get tired of eachother have only eachother to talk to? or i wonder how it was for adam, after eve was created, to actually have a human to talk to, someone to have a conversation with. i wonder how life was, without a care in the world. being able to lay down with the lions. did they fight a lot after the fall? did adam blame eve a lot for sinning first? i cant imagine the regret they lived with for the rest of their lives, knowing that life could be completely different, if only they didn't sin. what was their first phyiscal pain they experienced? how was it, knowing that they now had to stay away from lions, bears, tigers...etc, or else they would be eaten alive. after the fall, did the animals all of the sudden start eating eachother? were they aware of the change? can you imagine eve's pain when she saw her children grieve, get sick or hurt, knowing she could have spared them all the suffering if only she didn't eat the fruit? when cain killed abel, knowing her son would still be alive if only they didn't eat the fruit. what would have happened if only eve had sinned? what were eve's thoughts everytime she saw a snake? i wonder when they first felt anger, selfishness, greed, lust, envy...etc...was it very intense because they've never felt it before? i wonder how they handled it? did they have self-control? did cain and abel get bored having only eachother to play with? i wonder what adam and eve's thoughts were before they died and saw everything that produced from them, all their family, their home...etc. thinking way back when it was just them two in a garden. i cant imagine the joy that adam and eve had when they had their first baby...considering that they've never seen a baby before. or the horror that they went through during childbirth, adam seeing eve suffer in such pain. what kind of fruit did they eat? everyone assumes it's an apple. but the Bible doesn't specify. so many questions go through my head as i read the story of adam and eve, but these questions will have to wait to be asked until i meet them in person someday. until then, i continue to wonder in amazement....
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