What is this? - A Joke or another Monologue - or most
likely both?
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:17:19 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What do we have in the Garden of Eden.A man and a woman created from the dust of the earth.They were created mortal beings and used (I assume) the Tree of Life to continue to live.They were not expelled from the Garden because of their sin - rather because they might [continue] to eat of the Tree of Life.There is no reason to assume that they were less selfish, conceited and so on that any of us. But according to OT thinking, these were not sin. Their story is the account of the first transgression of law.Perhaps, in their story we have the beginnings of a Divine Contrast between Law and Grace. A whole history of mankind under law contrasted with the history of Grace ------------- always realizing, of course, that the gracious God is seen everywhere in the OT writings.They were not the only ones created - just the first ones.....................the first of the Chosen People of God.Cain was afraid that he would be killed by others. What others? There were whole cities in the days of Adam, Cain and Seth.So we not only have the first of God's creation, we have the first of the Chosen People of God.JD
