Would you Adam and Eve it?

 

There they were, Adam and Eve going around happily in the Garden of Eden totally naked and not worrying about anything, except perhaps getting too close to the cactus, or standing near a hot radiator or oven.

They were enjoying their nakedness when one day they met a snake!

Now I don't know about you, but if I were naked and met a snake I'd quickly cover up my bits in case he took a bite.  

If the snake actually talked to me ... well ... I'd probably poop in my non-existing pants rather than engage in conversation with him.

Anyway ... what I don't understand is, after they ate the forbidden fruit, how did Adam and Eve know which are the naughty bits they should cover?

Why not cover their knees for instance? Or their elbows?

Can you imagine? If they'd covered their knees instead; today we'd all be going around naked wearing our underpants down on our knees!

As you know, they did not in fact eat from an apple tree. Nowhere in the story does it say what tree it was. It could have been a mango tree, or figs, or a variety of other fruit trees. All it says is that it was a fruit tree.

What if it was a broccoli? The whole course of human history would have been different because I doubt they'd been tempted.

Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden tree and committed their first sin.

Now a lot of us consider this to be the sin of disobedience; which in fact it was. But this is not the most serious sin which they committed.

Their major sin was that they wanted to be like God. That's what the snake (devil) had fooled them into believing. They will be like God. They will know good from bad.

To some extent that's what happened. They got to know good from bad, right from wrong, and suffered the consequences.

I suspect that these days there are many who do not really know right from wrong; or choose not to care.

That's how Adam and Eve's story affects us in our lives.

How often do we also try to act like gods? And want things our way?

If only I could get that job, or that promotion at work, or get so and so to love me, or ... 

We just tell God what we want and expect Him to obey us. 

It's amazing how many people serve God in an advisory capacity. 

We just tell Him, what we want Him to do for us. Rather than trust Him to know better.