Adam My Hero

The Fruit which Adam ate

 Considering the  preciousness of what Adam gave up, immortality, it's not reasonable to consider that Adam ate an apple. No matter how tasty, the fruit he ate couldn't have been an apple. He must have eaten a fruit more precious than an apple. It must have been such a precious fruit that that it outweighed even the preciousness of immortality.

The only fruit that is more precious and more tasty than immortality is the fruit of the woman, namely her reproductive organs.

To die in the arms of a beautiful woman has been the wish of many a full blooded male. Sad to say some men have caused terrible pain to woman on whom they cruelly forced their ardor when the woman they loved didn't love them in return.

This was not the case with Adam and Eve. The Bible makes it clear that they loved each other dearly and that should be a comfort to us, the descendents of that marriage. We were born out of a relationship of love not one of violence and cruelty. This is why we should learn to live up to our loving ancestry and love one another.

Eve's temptation of Adam wasn't a bad thing. She didn't tempt him out of lust guided by the desire to achieve pure physical pleasure. She tempted Adam because they were alone and needed to stick together, to comfort each other.

Sure the snake represented evil; it's obvious that he did something bad to Eve. This is why she needed Adam to show her love, kindness and affection. Adam's love saved Eve from being forever in the arms of the evil snake.

Adam is the great hero of the world. He gives up immortality to save Eve. He does this by giving her love and shows her that there can be goodness in the mortal world.

Sure he sinned in the eyes of God and God punished him and Eve but he had saved Eve, the woman of his dreams, who he loved and who procreated the world together with him.

God's holy place

The Holy Place

 

The great question facing religion today as always is: "  Where is God's holy place?"

The question appears in the book of Psalms in a very clear way and virtually screams out of every word  of the Bible. I would go so far as to say that the purpose  of the Bible is to reveal the holy place of God.

A person who doesn't seek the answer to this question will be quite disappointed and will wonder why the Bible is such a popular book.

It's popular because there are obviously many people at all times in history, primitive times and modern, who want to know where is God's holy place.

Of course the Bible doesn't tarry with the answer and gives it straight away; God's holy place is the Garden of Eden.

There's no beating around the bush. Plane and simple, the holy place of God is The Garden of Eden and Man was in it and as long as he was perfectly good he was entitled to be there and like everything else over there he was immortal.

The Bible encourages man to search for immortality by searching for God's Holy Place.

I think that one can safely say that, in the physical world, the world of the 5 senses, man has resigned himself to the fact of death. Modern science may lengthen the span of life but I don't think any scientist thinks that immortality is attainable in the physical world.

All religions, however, promise immortality – of the soul. According to them man has a soul and if he is religious it is immortal. If he isn't religious – well, either he doesn't have a soul or, anyhow it doesn't  matter because a soul that isn't immortal isn't worth having.

This is the basis for the religious justification of the death penalty and in fact for all punishment. Because by committing a crime a person damages his soul and it needs to be repaired by punishment.

Having chosen to eat the fruit of Eve man is expelled from The Garden of Eden. In other words the eating of the fruit of Eve has made him imperfect and not entitled to be immortal.

Religion, however, comes to his rescue, to save his soul, as it were. It offers him an alternative holy place and a myriad of tools for repairing his damaged soul; sacrifices, ceremonies, prohibitions of certain types of behavior, foods, cloths etc.