Adam, wife, and that seducing thing
In the beginning of man being made in the image of God, we have been given an allegoric picture from Genesis about how man fell from his perfect union with the Father of creation. We can see that Adam walked with God, and their harmony was as if the two were connected as one. Adam and his wife had free reign over the world that was call ‘The Garden of Eden’, and he was to tend it, and that harmony enabled him to have dominion over all of God’s creation. There was but one rule: Do not pick or eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of ‘good and evil’’, for in the day that you do, you will surely die.
This tree was filled with the knowledge that man can behold, but should not, it would teach us ‘good’, therefore showing us evil in that same process. Jesus said; can a tree produce both good and evil fruit? Although the answer was not given by Him, it was also very obvious that the same tree couldn’t produce both good and corrupt fruit. And since there is none Good but our Father in Heaven, any knowledge that could be had from this forbidden tree had to be far from ‘good’; they, both fruit, were mingled into the same thing.
When the Eve of Adam, that is his soul, his wife, was seduced by the serpent of the tree of knowledge, she also gave to her husband, and he did also eat. They then realized they were naked, exposed at every level, and thus thought they were to hide from God; they now felt the first emotions of guilt and shame, and they were afraid. Through their now new knowledge, their first act was to be crafty and hid from God; that didn’t work. The shame of their disobedience drove them to cover their nakedness; that didn’t work. Now that their eyes were open, and the vastness of their new knowledge, they both began to see the darkness of their lost relationship; for both were driven from the Garden, thus left to their own skills; for their united relationship had been broken because of the hunger for knowledge, and believing the lie that the serpent had spoken. It was a trade-off. They traded their relationship with God, for the ‘supposing of knowledge’ that this world could offer. Man was now on his own, he now had to till the ground, make his own living the best he knew, by what this earth had to offer, and by the new found knowledge that he was seduced into by this cleaver so- called serpent.
Now we could dig deep into the truer meaning of the story and parable of Adam, his wife, and that seducing, crafty serpent, but what I wanted us to see is that Adam, (mankind), traded, thru his desire for independence, a relationship with the Father of creation where at all times he would walk with God; and even at the beginning he realized what his independence cost him. What a tremendous trade-off. For when Adam chose to eat of the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, he then chose his independence; his desire to make it on his own. And that is exactly what each of us does today, we either choose to walk within our own knowledge, and by the works of our hands, or, we can choose to walk in a complete relationship with the Father. His Love will never be taken from us, this we are assured, but to walk with Him, and depending on Him, is quite a different matter, for God is Spirit, and the carnal man must lay down his flesh before he can be reunited.
Many are called, but few are chosen. For God has called many into a relationship with Himself, and the Life that is available to all; but only a few are chosen to have their life from the beginning, laid out by God; and from their beginning, without their personal acceptance to be used by God for an ordained purpose. Such as John the Baptist, He didn’t choose the ‘way of his life’; it was chosen for him by God. Neither did Moses hear a call, his life was picked for him before birth, and the apostle Paul also, so was King David; but many, such as Peter heard the call from Christ, and followed Him. Yes we are a chosen generation, a peculiar people, and a royal priesthood, and some are chosen, but many are called into this wonderful and fulfilling relationship with the Father. So do we walk in the footsteps of our fathers, or come walking with Christ as the Spirit leads? Traditions are for the world, a beautiful thing, but Christ came to break those traditions of men; will we follow those same man-made regulations of an institutionalized structure that has brought but few to the Kingdom, or can we stand, not against, but for the unregulated outpouring of God’s Spirit?
So was Adam called or chosen? We know this; that Adam chose to walk in his own independence, when he already had an established relationship and walk with God. And the story of Adam, his wife, and the cunning serpent of the mind, was given to us ; not as a history lesson, but to show that each of us today are still making that choice. The Garden of Eden was most likely a real place in that special place of man, but this I’m assured; that same garden is alive and well inside of each and every person living today, and we also are given that choice of living independently with our self- taught skills and knowledge, or we can choose a life of dependency on the only God that truly knows what True Life is.
The first Adam tried to hide the shame of his nakedness because of their guilt by their cunning skills under the trees of the Garden, but the second Adam, which is Christ Jesus, exposed his nakedness on the cross to show that there is no guilt, nor is there shame for those who believe in what he was doing; exchanging His life for ours. For when man hung (so to speak) Jesus on the cross to shame Him, there was no shame in Him. The resurrection gave us the Life that the tree of knowledge, by the selfish act of our earth man, gave away; Jesus now holds the keys to the Kingdom of God, and since we’re joint heirs with Him, we also hold those same keys; it’s all in our heart.
The story of the first man, his wife, and the seducing spirit of knowledge, is far more in-depth than the few words that I have written, but we can see that many-a-volumes could be explained in our life today through this same story; it was written about us.