Bible Study Adam and Eve

[Broncobilly1972]

I would like to start a discussion on things people "see" but don't read.

First off I want to say that I do believe Adam and Eve were created from the dust and in no way evolved, and we're literal physical beings. But the spiritual messages are so intricately woven in, that it only shows how perfect our God is.

I'm going to start in the garden after they ate the fruit. And realized they were naked. I see them realizing they were naked as them perceiving they had lost something. God Himself had clothed them before, He clothed them in Righteousness, salvation, strength, and honour (prov31:25)(Psa132:16)(Psa132:9)
They lost all of these through disobedience, and tried to cover themselves with fig leaves (Isa30:1)
I find it interesting also that they used fig leaves, as the fig trees represent the church, but being leaves pulled from the tree they were now dead leaves. They covered themselves with self-righteousness, through a dead fig leave.

When God came calling and found Adam, interestingly enough Adam says I knew I was naked and I hid from myself from you. Hadn't he just covered himself with an apron of fig leaves?

Just one of the things I find interesting, please share any thoughts of your own

 

[nmwings]

You make an interesting point about God clothing them in righteousness, salvation, strength and honor.... but the passages you use for your analagy....?... seem reaching to me. But it is interesting. BTW the fig tree has ALWAYS represented Israel.

Scripture teaches there will be a restoration of all things, and so I believe that we'll reside back in the Garden as at the beginning. Since we're told that we'll get immortal bodies, at this moment I can only conclude that even though Adam and Eve were flesh, they were somehow immortal as well. And when they sinned they lost their immortality.

There are MANY interesting things about the fall of man. For instance, 3:3. Where does Scripture say God told them not to touch the fruit? God said nothing about touching the fruit, only to not eat of it. My point? Eve had LIED and added that part! The serpent probably deceived her by grabbing her hand and then grabbing the fruit saying, "See! You won't die!" Eve had lied not only to the serpent but also to herself, which he then exploited and used against her.

There's a GREAT moral to the story here: What happens when you either deny, add to or take away from what the Lord says? You set yourself up for the enemy to come in and deceive you! God warned us about adding to or subtracting from His Law in Deut 4:2.

Speaking of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil..... in my study of the New Jerusalem in Rev and Ezek, I see the Tree of Life in both accounts, but where is the Tree of Knowledge? It is nowhere to be found! Since there will be a restoration of ALL things & it is clearly absent, I can only conclude that the Lord did NOT plant that tree!