Recently I have been doing a lot of thinking about Eden, and what exactly the repercussions of Eden have been on humans since that time. While I have come up with no answers, many questions have arisen. Ponder this...
If God is all knowing why did he have do ask “Where are you?” of Adam and Eve?
Was God just being polite? Did She ask this (Where are You?) because She knew what was coming?
Was God so angry after the Eden incident that it caused Him to become the vengeful God of the old Testament? And if this is true, why do we continue loving God?
What made Eden so special? What made it perfect? Was it the closeness to God or the pretty trees or something all together different?
Does all of our human knowledge of God come from the events of Eden?
After Eden, did God become so separate from us that finding Him again becomes difficult?
Would I have eaten the apple?
Did Eve’s biting the apple separate humanity from God so much that he is not all knowing of us?
Maybe it is the memory of Eden that has created a need for religion. Or maybe we just want to believe that there is something better if we were only better, and thus created the story of Eden.
The basis of all human kind in the Christian traditions said to be coming from what happened in Eden. And maybe this is why humans can never be perfect.
-Kathleen Kerr
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