Class 4 Eve my Hero

After reading and re-reading Genesis 3, it has come to my attention that there have never been a title so inappropriate. Instead of the Fall why not the Rise, or The Beginning. Imagine what we'd all be like if we were still living in The Garden. naked, running all over breeding, and immortal? What kind of existence would this be? I think God would have been ultimately bored with us. And what would we be but uni-dimensional creatures, nothing more than an amoeba existing just to exist. No struggle no thought, no consciousness.

It is my opinion that Eve did us all a big favor. That girl is my hero. Yes, my hero.

And you know I have a suspicion that God figured this out as well. It was no mistake he left a big yummy fruit tree right smack in the middle of a Garden where Adam and Eve lived. It was no mistake that he told only Adam, yes only Adam that if he ate the fruit he would die.

The concept of death would have meant nothing to Adam at the time. The idea of Death was no big threat to Adam or Eve. Further, was Adam's job to tell Eve about God's command. She got the news over lunch. "Hey babe don't eat the fruit on that really yummy tree you'll die, now come over here and multiply".

Sin, as Mary Baker Eddy put it "has elements of self" destruction". There was no conscious idea of self destruction in the make- up of Adam and Eve as they existed in the Garden. So where's the sin here? If there is no sin in what Eve did by eating that yummy fruit, then the Christian idea of original sin (that we are predisposed due to our nature which God created makes us all sinners from the first cell division in the womb) makes little sense.

I am reminded of a quote from the psalm 17:20 " He brought me out into an open place. he rescued me because he delighted in me". The idea that God delights in me, in you, in us makes me feel like I am participating in a dance ,a journey with God, that somehow I am good enough to find favour in God's eyes has helped me to overcome the self-destructive elements in my own life. It has helped me overcome the hatred and disdain that my own family carries for me and if I can delight God then the opinion of others started to matter less and less. I came to the conclusion a while back that I wanted to continue to delight God so I took a look at the things in my life that were NOT delightful. I made a list and have managed over time to cross them out one after another.

I think Eve, in the end delighted God. She challenged him, pissed him off but caught his interest and curiously and wonder in his own creation. That's why God clothed both Adam and Eve with the compassion and love of a Father tending over his children, struggling with the fact that he may not be able to protected them from the outside world but vowing to love and to guide them forever.

Bravo Eve the mother of all!