Adam & Eve

1. Adam & Eve The First Archetypal Fall

2. Description of the Garden of Eden: • Planted Eastward in Eden • Tree of Life (gives everlasting life) and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the middle of the garden • A river ran through the garden and parted into four different rivers once it left the garden: • -Pison • -Gihon (from Ethiopia) • -Hiddekel (ancient name of the Tigris) • -Euphrates • Man and Woman were placed in the garden to take care of it

3. The Gift of Choice: The First Command • There is only one thing in the garden that Adam and Eve cannot eat: The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil • The penalty for disobeying this command is death… “for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” • Adam is the only one who actually hears this command from God; it becomes his duty to tell Eve after she is created of the command of God.

4. The Creation of Woman, Adam’s Mate • Woman means “out of man” since she was created from Adam’s rib (from his side to show she was equal) • Adam names all the animals and then gets to name the new creation, and he chooses “Woman.” She doesn’t get another name until after the Fall. • Both Adam and Eve were naked and did not know it because they were completely innocent.

5. The Temptation and Fall of Man • The animals in the Garden of Eden must have been able to talk because Eve showed no surprise when the serpent began talking to her. • Eve may have been approached first because she did not directly receive the command from God and thus it may not have had as much of an impression with her. • Adam and Eve did not eat an apple, it was a fruit. Adam chose to eat the fruit; it was not forced on him.

6. The Curses • Adam and Eve both instinctively blamed someone else for their sin: Adam blamed God and Eve blamed the serpent. • Serpent’s Curse: • -to crawl on his belly and eat the dust of the ground • -Emnity (hatred) between woman and snakes • Woman’s Curse: • -pain in childbirth • -submissive to man • Man’s Curse: • -work the ground…weeds will now grow • -death

7. The Expulsion • God killed the first animals for their skin to provide clothes and food. • Adam renames Woman to Eve since he now knows she will be the mother of all living. • Man has to be kicked out of the garden because if he ate of the Tree of Life, he would gain eternal life again. • A Cherubim (warrior angel) guarded the gate of the Garden of Eden with a flaming sword.