The Shock of Sin

So there stood Adam and woman, realizing that they had done evil and that they were in opposition to God. In that realization came the understanding that they were naked and they were ashamed of being naked. So they made clothing out of their surroundings.

And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
As we just saw, they were standing there when they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden. How can you hear a voice walking? You and I have a voice, have you ever heard it walking? No. Our voices are a part of us. they are contained and produced by our body. This fact means that the voice of Lord God would be a part of the Lord God. Why then would it be treated in Scripture as a seperate entity than the Lord God? The fact that it was walking and could be heard walking means that this voice had a body. So I ask, who was the voice of the Lord God?

So this voice was walking in the garden and it was the cool of the evening and when they heard the sound of the voice walking, they hid themeselves. This means they were familiar enough with the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden that they knew the sound of his tread. Hearing this familiar step, they hid themselves. It is important to note that they hid themselves "from the presence of the Lord God." The voice here becomes the presence of the Lord God. I have a presence. My spouse has a presence. My friends have presences. Yet when we are together, our presences are not interchangeable. Therefore, only God has the presence of God. If the voice has the presence of God, that makes him God. Who then is the Voice of God?

They hid themselves from the presence of God among the trees. Our children, when they have done something they shouldn't have done and think they might get into trouble for it, will also hide though they realize that we shall find out.

And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? Well, the Lord God called out to Adam saying "Where are you, Adam?"

And he (Adam) said, I heard thy voice in the garden (again showing that Adam was familiar with the Voice of God enough to know the sound of Him walking in the garden), and I was afraid (Adam was scared because he knew he had been disobedient), because I was naked (herein was his shame: he was naked and because of his new-found understanding of good and evil, he knew it was wrong); and I hid myself (because of his shame at being disobedient and being naked).

And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
God goes right to the heart of the issue. In asking who it was that told Adam that he was naked, God directs Adam's understanding to the fact that no one could have told Adam that he was naked. This knowledge had to have come as a result of eating the fruit. Had the serpent, for example, simply told woman she was naked, Woman would have no understanding of the concept of nakedness. It had to come as a result of the understanding.

In asking if Adam had eaten of the tree that he was commanded not to eat, God allows man the opportunity to confess and be repentant. More to come next time.

Dear readers, I asked you who was the voice of the Lord God. We see from the text, that this voice was a part of God (voice of the Lord God), it had a body (heard the voice of the Lord God walking), it was a being (presence of the Lord God), and it was God (presence of the Lord God). Therefore, it could only be the second entity of the Godhead. We are told in John 1 verses 1-3, that "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. The Greek word used here is logos. It means "something said (including the thought); by implication a topic (subject of discourse). . ." So we gather that the Word (who was in the begining with God and was in fact God, is the same as the Voice of the Lord God. As we read further in John 1 specifically in verse 14, we see that the Word/Voice became flesh and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Christian

This Looks G-O-O-O-D!!!

Boy! That serpent sure is devious. He started out by asking woman to verify a lie, which drew her into conversation. Then he insinuated that God lied to her. ending by promising her the desire of her innocent heart to wit: being like God, the one she looked up to and wanted to be like. Lets continue.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Notice here that the woman looked at the tree. Was this the first time? Well we notice that she looked upon it in a unique way, realizing that it had fruit and fruit was food. She saw it was a pretty. And that it served the purpose of making the eater like God. Suddenly, to her lusting mind, the pros of the tree outweighed the one con - disobeying God. So she had to have one and indeed found it good enough that she passed it on to her husband to eat. It was her being a dutiful wife. He ate.

And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
After they ate, they understood that what they had done was evil. They understood that they were naked and that being naked was not a good thing anymore. The first thing they did upon realizing this sin, was to sew fig leaves together into aprons. The word for apron here literally means belt or girdle. It means that they covered the waist down. So the very first fashion design was a simple yet functional article that wrapped at the waist and extended the length of a fig leaf (roughly 5-10") downwards.

Well, the serpent sure played woman like a fiddle as the saying goes. He used her emotions to his advantage. Which just goes to show, that one should always watch the desires of one's heart.

Christian