This chapter provides further evidence for and deepens our understanding of the Creator’s design and purpose of life. According to Genesis 2: 16-17,
The LORD God gave man this order: “You are free to eat from any of the trees of the garden except the tree of knowledge of good and bad. From that tree you shall not eat; the moment you eat from it you are surely doomed to die.”
Adam must have attended to every word uttered by the Creator as it was a clear order with a clearly outlined consequence made by the Creator of everything who is capable of carrying out the consequence of disobedience very extremely. Adam explained and taught the deepest understanding of the Creator’s design the moment he met Eve; therefore, Adam very profoundly understood the seriousness of the Creator’s order not to eat from the tree of knowledge. Adam and Eve clearly experienced, witnessed and understood the Creator’s wisdom and power first hand, thus would take the Creator’s commandment with the utmost seriousness. In Genesis 3: 2-3 Eve answered the cunning and serious confrontation with the serpent,
The woman answered the serpent: “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; it is only about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden that God said, “You shall not eat it or even touch it, lest you die.”
It is clear that Eve also understood the Creator’s order. However, the cunning serpent appears to achieve the first part of his goal of intimidating and deceiving Eve into disobeying the Creator’s order. Eve on the other hand, is opposite of the serpent in that she is not cunning and not intimidating. Eve cannot trick Adam her husband, who is her organ donor, flesh, bone, one flesh. I noticed that Eve did not even say any words of manipulation to Adam. As stated in Genesis 3: 6, “So, she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.”
I noticed that Eve actually appeared to have resisted the serpent’s manipulation longer than Adam resisted Eve’s offer for him to eat the forbidden fruit. Therefore, Eve did not try to trick, deceive or manipulate Adam, rather offered him the fruit of the disobedience unmasked, seeking his help without tricking words or fantasies. Eve knows that she incurred the death consequence by her choice, something no spouse would want to drag his/ or her spouse into. By offering the forbidden fruits to Adam unmasked, she offered her changed situation of sorrow, pain, labor and death, which could permanently separate her from Adam depending on his next independent choice. By presenting the fruit to Adam, Eve was presenting her unquestionable choice that has lasting negative consequences resembling a farewell to all the abundance she enjoyed while living with the Creator; soon she would begin serving her forever punishment of labor and death. Labor and death do not coexist with the permanent life with the Creator; thus Eve knows she will separate from the Creator.
Recall that earlier in Genesis 2: 22-23, immediately upon seeing Eve, Adam uttered profound wisdom and that revealed depth of understanding and teaching of the Creator’s design. Likewise, in this tragic situation Adam knows that his choice is an educational choice that will communicate deep and profound understanding of the Creator’s design to all generations. In this situation, Adam is teaching us the most profound lesson, so please pay close attention. Genesis 3: 6 states, “….she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.”
Adam assuredly, quickly and confidently chose to disobey the Creator’s order and die. As the Creator clearly stated in Genesis 3: 17, “the moment you eat from it you are surely doomed to die.” Therefore, Adam understands that the consequence of his choice is death and the loss of all the happiness he experienced while living with the Creator.
Adam and Eve are teaching all generations that they chose to disobey the Creator’s command and lose the happy life they were enjoying with the Creator only and for no other reason than an exchange for their ultimate choice to abide perfectly and permanently by the Creator’s copyright design to remain one flesh, to remain permanent wife and husband together just as the Creator designed. Thus, their negative choice of disobedience actually attests to their submission in abiding by the Creator’s design even if it meant sacrificing themselves to the permanent punishment of labor and death. I find this point is often misunderstood, but it is so profound that it unlocks the Creator’s design and answers so many questions about the purpose of life.
Consider the other options that Adam could have chosen. Adam could have restated to Eve that although he loves her, he loves and obeys the Creator far more and cannot break the Creator’s order. Adam could have chosen not to eat the forbidden fruits. Adam was not manipulated by the serpent, but simply saw Eve carrying the forbidden fruits and he knew without even coming close that the fruit was forbidden. Adam could have assured Eve that although he is not eating the fruit, he would do his best to ask the Creator to forgive Eve since it is the first and the last wrong choice. If the Creator does not listen to Adam’s plea on behalf of Eve, one possible outcome would be that the Creator would kill Eve, and Adam would happily volunteer to undergo many more organ transplants and would request that the Creator design a new more suitable partner. Adam knows that the Creator is capable of creating other women (and in today’s culture that could be considered divorce for unresolved differences or a bad date and move to the next). However, such a decision neglects the Creator’s design for humans to live as permanent offspring or as spousal one flesh as explained by Adam, “This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh …… one flesh.”
The option to live as a single offspring is also implied because not every offspring may reach the age of marriage and both spouses may not die at the same moment. However, Adam was already married to Eve and if he chose not to accompany her in her death journey, the Creator would have to break the copyright design for human sexuality if the Creator desired to have human offspring. Now that death waits Eve, Adam understood clearly that without her he would not be able to go through another organ donation and create one flesh with a new woman. That choice is impossible under the same Creator’s design that Adam understood and explained clearly and unmistakably in Genesis 2: 24, “That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one flesh.”
Adam knows well that the Creator will obviously not break the Creator's design. If Adam did not choose to disobey the Creator’s command to avoid eating from the forbidden fruit, then the only possible options are for Adam to continue to live permanently with the Creator as a single man or for the Creator to create another man and a new permanent wife for the new man to fulfill the Creator’s design. Adam quickly and wisely chose to die rather than choosing to disrupt and disobey the Creator’s design.
Adam chose to lose the happy life with the Creator to live briefly on earth, to suffer, work for food, risk constant intimidation and cunning by the serpent and wild animals without the Creator’s protection or help, and then to die both spiritually and physically. His wise and profound choice testifies that the one flesh with the wife is so profound, so permanent and so unchangeable that it must be physical. The proof for the permanent alteration of a virgin Genetic segment of the spousal sexual flesh I discussed thus far is clearly cemented in the Bible and adds to what I discussed logically.
In other words, Adam has been anointed high priest and king by God and he must of necessity have a victim to sacrifice. Adam must offer a victim of no mean oblation, but one of immense and priceless value. Otherwise, it would not be worthy to be offered to the Creator. Thus Adam offers himself. Every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices to the Creator as St Paul stated in Hebrews 8:3. For the Creator demands the excellence of the gift that is offered.
The Creator did follow through as Adam and Eve undoubtedly expected and punished them severely by reducing them from the status of the best king and queen to the status of hard workers and laborers. Moreover, the Creator recognized Adam’s profound choice and teaching lesson of an absolute and ultimate choice of obedience to the Creator’s design. Adam and Eve understand that the Creator can only design timeless perfection that is so seriously deserving and worthy of sacrificing everything, and so worthy of suffering labor and death, which was foreign to them. Therefore, we read the compassionate and caring Creator made Adam and Eve their first leather garments and clothed them as stated in Genesis 3: 21, “For the man and his wife the LORD God made leather garments, with which he clothed them.”
Adam and Eve’s choices to abide by the Creator’s design sacrificed what they already had − life with the Creator − and gained what they did not have or want − labor and death. That is how serious Adam and Eve understood and practiced the Creator’s design. The Creator’s design is timeless, ethical, fair and just for Adam and Eve and everyone else past, present and future. Can you think of anyone past, present or future who can measure even a tiny percentage of all that Adam lost abiding by the Creator’s Sacred design? I cannot.