A Discourse on Adam and Eve

The story of Adam and Eve in the garden

I am at the present reading a very large book about Old Testament laws entitled Tools of Dominion. I believe this book has been previously mentioned. [link] When it was first assigned I took one look at those 1200 pages and passed rather harsh judgment upon it. It is actually quite good, and it makes perfect sense to me, which is certainly not normal. My sister has occasionally been subject to chapters of it, as I tend to comprehend a lot more when I read aloud. She says it doesn't make any sense at all. Anyway, all this is just a preface to say that today's passage was about Adam and Eve.

Several weeks ago my geometry teacher presented a devotional about Adam and Eve, in which he mentioned that some commentators think that Adam and Eve were perhaps created at the age of sixteen or seventeen.

Initially, that kind of freaked me out. Actually, I had never really though about how old they might possibly be. I guess in my mind they were always a nebulous youngish age, like 20-30.



Since then I have continued to ponder this. It makes sense that they should be around seventeen, I mean, wasn't that the age when people then got married? No, come again, there WERE no people then, but you know what I mean. It seems a little more understandable that they would've messed everything up and brought sin into the world.

I mean, what seventeen year old do YOU know that you would put in charge of the welfare of the earth? Come to think of it, there are all sorts of psychological and emotion reasons for a sixteen year old girl to be tricked into eating a fruit. Then Adam ate it, and God called on them to explain their actions. As my book puts it, they had to decide whether they were going to testify against God or Satan. So there you have two teenagers who are definitely in trouble, and they have to figure out how to get out of it.

I have a hard time imagining what it would be like to be a person created at the age of 17. You would have no memories, no past, no identity. Would you? I mean, what would it be like, the first day you were alive, to try and think about a nonexistent yesterday? Weird.

I guess Adam probably thought that Eve was pretty good looking, but that gets slightly messed with how we think of it. I'd better be careful with this, but there were no other girls to compare with. He'd have to think she was beautiful as you think a sunset or a canyon is beautiful, just appreciating it for what it is. Which actually sounds great, ideal, I mean, there wouldn't be anybody to be jealous about.

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I found these depictions on GodTube. This first one is really good. I think that the serpent being a woman is a good twist. (I'm deleting any comments about this sentence. You know what I mean) I was kind of surprised when Adam kissed Eve. Interestingly, he was very convinced that he shouldn't eat the fruit - very grounded. He sure fell easily. Now we're back to emotional seventeen year olds being the downfall of the world. One other part I though was cool was when the serpent turned away at 03:05 when directly challenged.



This second one I only put in because it's creative and kind of interesting. I really like the part with Jesus Christ, but two parts of it are quite peculiar. One is the lack of the serpent (or if there is one I totally missed it), and the second the ending - Adam is suddenly evil. Rather un-Biblical, though of course after eating the fruit Adam was evil. The first song is cool, though.




Further Reading
http://www.allaboutcreation.org/adam-and-eve.htm