Week 3 Story: Adam and Eve
Adam and Eve
This story follows Adam and Eve after they have been created. Adam was awoken by a women’s laughter he had never heard before. He shook his head to clear the cobwebs from his mind and decided that he must find whose beautiful laugh he had heard. As Adam was stumbling around trying to locate the voice, he had heard he came upon a stunning sight, a woman. He walked toward her and introduced himself as Adam and he learned that her name was Eve and she had just awakened and found herself in the garden. As they started to talk both felt an immediate attraction to one another. God watched on with happiness and when they decided they wanted to be together forever he came down to perform the first marriage in the world. After they had gotten married God gave them one rule to follow, do not eat from The Tree of Knowledge. For many years there was happiness and peace in the garden until one fateful day when Eve was walking by the tree. The day she was walking by a tree she heard a beautiful voice call out to her, “Eve, come have a juice apple!” At first, she could not figure out where the voice had come from but then saw the snake. As she started talking to the snake, she kept telling him that God had commanded they not eat from this tree. The snake kept giving reason after reason on why it was not bad idea to eat from the tree. After much pushing and convincing the snake finally got Eve to grab the apple and take a bite. After Eve had taken a bite she immediately rushed and had Adam take a bite.
Eating of the Apple
After eating the apple, it seemed like their minds had been opened because they both realized that they were naked and were ashamed. They both scrambled to find so leaf’s and twigs to construct clothing, while they were doing this God was above and sensed that something was amiss down in the Garden. Being the concerned father that he was, God decided to go down to the garden to see what was going on. When he could not locate his first two children he called out, “Adam, Eve, where are you two.” From behind a tree and bush he heard, “We are here father.” God decided to ask them why they were hiding, and they told him because they were ashamed at being naked and this shocked him. Instantly, God became aware that they had eaten from the one tree he had commanded them not to eat from. As he started asking questions about why they ate from the tree all he got was excuses. Adam kept on blaming Eve, stating he did not know the apple was from the forbidden tree and he was aware he had disobeyed God. Eve, on the other hand, blamed the charming snake and questioned why he would have a deceiving snake who would tempt them to eat from the tree. Now you see, God had decided that if they had just been honest with them then he would forgive their transgressions and wash off in the sea of tranquility. They instead continued to lie to him, and he felt that he had no other choice but to punish them.
The Aftermath
God decided that the only punishment that could fit the crime they had committed was to banish them from the garden, and he had to figure out where to put them. He knew that if he let them live south of the garden then they would be able to smell the scent of the fresh fruit and the beauty that they left. In his mind he felt that they would never come to grips with the heartache they had cause them so he realized he could not put them there, because they would never learn from their mistake. Instead he told them they could live west of the garden. There was nothing out there so they would have to forge for themselves and provide housing and food. God thought that this would make them come to understand that what they had done was completely wrong. As Adam and Eve moved to the west, they began to get angry because they thought that it was not their fault, they had disobeyed God, they had been tricked by the snake. They also thought it was odd that a lying, deceiving snake would be living in a garden of peace and tranquility. As they settled into their new abode, in a land far away from the paradise they were used to their minds began to open and develop thoughts of abandonment from their father. They both figured they would use this moment as a teaching lesson to be handed down for generations about why God’s rules should be followed.
Authors Note: I have always loved the story of Adam and Eve, but I have thought there was not much background into how God must have felt. For this story I added what I thought was going on in God’s mind and Adam and Eve’s when they were banished. Also, no one really ever talks about the aftermath of eating the apple from the forbidden tree. I thought I would give a more modern take on what I believed happen in the garden. It is also better to give God a more humane side than just thinking he was a jerk.
Bibliography:
Gibbs, Laura. Adam and Eve. The Creation
Gibbs, Laura. Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve the Fall
Hi Andrew! This perspective of the story of Adam and Eve is really interesting. I, personally, grew up listening to this story over and over again in church, so it was definitely familiar to me as I read it. I think your story is really well-written and creative! I've always thought it was really interesting that Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat apples from "The Tree of Knowledge". Ignorance was definitely bliss in this case, it seems. Great job overall!
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ReplyDeleteIt was interesting to read through your rendition of the Christian story of the Fall. I'll admit, I at first thought I was on the wrong post and was reading your reading notes for this story, because the first two sections are mostly just summary, but the third section was, of course, different from the original. I did like that you broke it into sections, though! Good luck with future stories!