For some reason reading Genesis 2-3 this time felt like it was the first time i've read it. The story was alive in my mind and I was facinated by pieces of the story that i had never really thought about before. I ponder the question about how God said that if Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil they will surely die! Did God really intend, then, in creating Adam and Eve that they would live forever? Would there really have been no death for them had they never chosen to eat that fruit? And the serpent's curse was that he would grovel and crawl on his belly...is there a chance that the serpent wasn't a slithering animal before he convinced Adam and Eve to betray their trust in God? I wish i could have been there to see it all! What a world they existed in when they were first created!
And yet as i think about the Garden, I think about how peaceful and wonderful it must have been before "The Fall". Creation. The way God intended for creation to be. Is that what we are supposed to be pursuing in this life? Is it possible that all of the Bible's talk about "The Kingdom of God" is ultimately to help us get back to that wonderful world called "The Garden"? Maybe Jesus' stories about sacrifice and humility and love and putting others before yourself are all clues on how we could live more like God intended us to live in the first place. Maybe we're supposed to be getting more out of Christ's stories about the "Kingdom of Heaven" that pertains to the way we live our lives here and now, rather than seeing them as how life will be for "Christians" after death! Maybe our goal should be to get back to that incredibly alive, beautifully peaceful, good Garden. How do we get there? What is it that Jesus tells us about the Kingdom of Heaven? What needs to change in me if i am supposed to be growing toward that goal? What about you?
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What I love about the Creation account is just that... that this is the way God intended the world to be! We would keep eating from the tree of life, and have animals be tame, and have all our food available any time we need it... and be at peace, walking in the garden with God... not even weeds or bugs(?) well maybe there were bugs from the beginning, but I bet they didn't bite!!
But if we do believe in the future heaven on earth, we can believe that it will be this way again... Yea! Even if you dont' take the literal 7 day creation account, you can still allow yourself to believe that is what God wants for us... and that can be our hope!
Dee
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