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Ah well...
I'm reading Donald Miller's book, Searching For God Knows What, which (unlike Blue Like Jazz) seems to progress from chapter to chapter, and one of the chapters I finished last night was all about nudity. He talked about what the Garden of Eden must've been like. I like the way he's thought through the Garden. I, too, thought of the place as a relatively small oasis in the middle of Turkey, Iraq, or someplace around there. He explained how one river flowed out of the Garden that fed four huge rivers; so the Garden must've been a huge place. He likens it to a continent. Wow.
I happen to be reading Genesis 3 for this devotional thing here, and it is right in the middle of all the nakedness of the Garden of Eden. This serpent thing tricks Eve into eating the fruit, who gets Adam to eat it, and then they all blame each other when God comes calling. It's funny to hear God asking rhetorical questions, like, "Where are you?" And as soon as Adam says, "I was naked," God asks, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree...?" He knew exactly why Adam would be saying such a statement.
The serpent, Eve, Adam, and the ground were all cursed as a result of this failure to obey. God is talking to someone else, referring to an nebulous "us" when He states: "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." So He banished Adam from the Garden. Man's relationship with God certainly took a turn for the worst.
Posted by Doug Van Pelt at August 30, 2006 01:31 PM