Week 3 Reading Diary (Continued): Adam and Eve

The punishment of Adam and Eve after betraying God and eating the forbidden fruit sounds harsh to me, but after reading "If I had let My wrath fall heavily upon thee, I should have destroyed thee, and had I turned thee into darkness, it would have been as if I killed thee.", I guess it could have been a lot worse. Adam and Eve were given one rule to follow: do not eat the forbidden fruit. How hard could this have been? This story describes one of man's greatest downfalls, temptation. Temptations are placed all around us in this world, sometimes unknowingly, and man has been known to fall for these temptations whatever they may appear as. This "forbidden fruit" represents all of life's temptations. It sounds dumb that they could not follow this one and only rule they were given, but when you take a step back and think about the meaning, it describes man very accurately. We are imperfect creatures with many flaws; giving into these temptations can be considered just one of these flaws. God could not take control over Adam and Eve's actions because then there would be no free will and they would not be able to think for themselves. God gave them 12 hours of darkness as part of their punishment; does this mean he created the moon and physically sent our planet into orbit around our sun for this darkness to occur? When was the rest of the universe created? Were there other planets that creation form God happened on besides just Earth? What if there is an ocean of "Earths" out there that were all suddenly spoke into existence by God all at the same time, and God is watching for the final outcomes of each and every different one. I believe we will manage to kill ourselves off slowly but surely by scavenging all of this Earth's precious resources like hungry vouchers always craving to do more and push the limits further and further.

(Darkness engulfing the world for the first time. Source)

These thoughts were taken during the reading of Adam and Eve: The Darkness contained within The Forgotten Books of Eden, edited by Rutherford H. Platt, Jr.