Bible took away the Garden of Eden, Teaching the snake

(Interesting perception about the black book,
Adam and Eve are nude in Garden of Eden, then the snake tells to eat the apple and “Gain knowledge of good and evil” (The key words being knowledge of, knowledge of something they likely did not give their attention to before hand). Then Eve eats the apple and clothes her self and it is assumed she feels guilty for being nude or that it was wrong or evil to do so.

I find this interesting when compared to the interpretations of the black book and teachings that promote wearing clothing and showing little skin and the missionaries bringing that book to indigenous peoples who were nearly nude and living in the forest and meows (aka the Garden of Eden) and telling them they had to alter their ways. In essence taking away the Eden of the indigenous folks and themselves, by reading past that specific section of the black book and trying to interpret a mish mosh of “memos” or writings of whomever.

By setting up the knowledge of good and evil, what the snake did was IMHO create something out of nothing. Primarly the affects of this Apple, created not good and evil, but the knowledge there of, leading to feelings like Guilt, Shame, Remorse, Inadequacy, Judgmentalism, and so on.

(Interesting perception about the black book,
Adam and Eve are nude in Garden of Eden, then the snake tells to eat the apple and “Gain knowledge of good and evil” (The key words being knowledge of, knowledge of something they likely did not give their attention to before hand). Then Eve eats the apple and clothes her self and it is assumed she feels guilty for being nude or that it was wrong or evil to do so.

I find this interesting when compared to the interpretations of the black book and teachings that promote wearing clothing and showing little skin and the missionaries bringing that book to indigenous peoples who were nearly nude and living in the forest and meows (aka the Garden of Eden) and telling them they had to alter their ways. In essence taking away the Eden of the indigenous folks and themselves, by reading past that specific section of the black book and trying to interpret a mish mosh of “memos” or writings of whomever.

By setting up the knowledge of good and evil, what the snake did was IMHO create something out of nothing. Primarly the affects of this Apple, created not good and evil, but the knowledge there of, leading to feelings like Guilt, Shame, Remorse, Inadequacy, Judgmentalism, and so on.



You bring up a really good point ocncerning the theology of the Garden of Eden. It seems that you think we should allow people to live in nakedness or near-nakedness because they are living in the way in which God originally intended man to live. However, I think you misunderstand what happened at the fall.

When man and woman ate of the fruit, they not only became knowledgeable of good and evil, but they became sinful because they had disboeyed God's commands. They had sought to become like God and therefore they were guilty of rebellion against the one true Lord.

So when they were ashamed of their nakedness, it wasn't because they had previously been sinning by being naked, but because they felt the shame and helplessness of being sinful and the reaction was to cover themselves. They realized that something was shameful about being exposed in this way.

Now it's wrong for us to run around naked because we are all full of sin and therefore our sin will be aroused by each other's nakedness. When missionaries go to other countries they should seek to enlighten them on this shame which will improve their lifestyle. The goal shouldn't be to give them shame without giving them an answer, however.

The Bible gives a real way to return to the garden of Eden. It's through the God of the Bible and through the sacrifice of his Son. Ever notice the imagery given in Revelation of the New Jerusalem? It has a tree in it - the tree of life - which was the same tree that was in the garden. God has brought history all the way around and redeemed his people out of their helplessness and brought them back to paradise. That's amazing to look forward to.

I hope this is all clear. If not, let me know. :)