Some housekeeping. Entries for this topic may be twice a week. I fear I may never get through the Bible if I don\u2019t. We will see how that goes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let\u2019s start with the Holy Day. \u201cAnd God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done (Genesis 2:3).\u201d So\u2026how did this day become Sunday? A day in which no one rests or\u2026.if you have children\u2026can\u2019t rest because of\u2026well kids. Then there is the fact that Sunday is known as the beginning of the week. This is where I feel like things start to get a little wonky on considering it truth. Every spiritual path or even culture has its own creation story (many of them similar to each other). Why is this the one that is said be the story, spiritually speaking. It is because it is more human like? Does it make more sense becuase it is closer to being human or mundane, having a time line, rest, and such? I<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd the Lord God commanded the man, \u2018You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die\u2019 (Genesis 2:16-17).\u201d People often talk of the dark night of the soul. This intense process of transformation. I feel like when God said that Adam would die, I don\u2019t think he meant literally. I think that his innocence and naivet\u00e9 would be gone. Adam would have the weight of full awareness and the guilt of \u201cwrong-doing\u201d on his shoulders. Without that knowledge, he could be free to just live blissfully unaware of pain and sadness. Whenever anything changes or is lost\u2026or even gained..there is a process of mourning. Things are not longer what they once were. Gaining this knowledge Adam has now lost and gained so many things and not all of them joyful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dThe man and his wife were both naked and they felt no shame (Genesis 2:26).\u201d Oh what bliss; to even feel clothed and no shame would be a big step for me. To feel no shame for being naked, now that just seems impossible. How amazing though. Here\u2019s a question\u2026.how did eating from the tree of knowledge make nakedness evil..or even just shameful. What is truly so wrong? What knowledge could have possibly been gained that nakedness was something bad? Why would God want us naked if he knew it was evil or something to feel guil over? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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