Genesis 3: 10 explains how Adam and Eve experienced the immediate impact of labor and death. “He answered, “I heard you in the garden; but I was afraid, because I was naked, so I hid myself.” Genesis 3: 21 shows the love and care of the Creator for his children; He even made Adam and Eve their first garments. “For the man and his wife the LORD God made leather garments, with which he clothed them.”
That is truly incredible. Adam and Eve are husband and wife living without any other humans in a situation that would be similar to a married couple living alone on their private island today. Today, garments would be hardly needed in such a situation. It is amazing that the Creator Father cared to dress them properly to cover their nakedness even when they were the only human beings alive.
Adam and Eve were courageously abiding by the Creator’s design and were forced to choose to disobey the commandment of the Creator; immediately they saw their nakedness, felt shame and hid themselves. Therefore, because they disobeyed the Creator’s commandment they inherited labor and death and immediately they experienced its new effect − they realized their nakedness for the first time. Shortly, they experienced labor, pain and Father’s alienation, which they never experienced before. Ultimately, they experienced death and that was also not part of their original design. Thus, Adam and Eve unmistakably experienced the impact of disobeying the Creator’s Commandment immediately and over the long-term.
Unfortunately, lack of proper understanding triggers many people to rationalize that if one disobeys the Creator’s commandments or design, one would not experience an immediate distinguishable consequence; otherwise, most people would learn from other’s experiences and repent. I find that we all suffer labor and death and the LORD God shines his sun on everyone, thus we can become numb or accustomed to labor and death.
Moreover, Adam and Eve experienced nakedness immediately even in front of the LORD God so that the Creator clothed them. Notice that today disobeying the Creator’s design in fact is opposite to what Adam and Eve experienced. When a person engages in fornication or adultery he or she is choosing to expose himself/ or herself naked to outsiders unashamed. It is truly incredible. Adam and Eve experienced nakedness as an immediate consequence of their sentence of labor and death; yet today, people seek to expose their nakedness to those outside of the one flesh. Thus, the immediate experience of labor and death by feeling fear and nakedness is numbed, rationalized, fantasized and excused. Therefore, I find that committing fornication or adultery numbs the most important immediate experience of labor and death. Additionally, it confuses nakedness that is intended to be solely between the one flesh by expanding, rationalizing, fantasizing and excusing the nakedness to anyone a person believes to have advantages over the one flesh, the image of the Holy Trinity forming the one Creator.
Thereafter, a person’s nakedness to a second sexual partner (and beyond) becomes irrelevant and customary; as I concluded, numbing the transformed and inseparable couples resistance against fornication or adultery creates sexual addiction that is difficult to overcome. Furthermore, numbing the effect of nakedness, labor and death lessens the immediate and delayed effect of disobeying the Creator’s design that is communicated verbally and nonverbally. A person who numbs the important experiences of the effect of disobeying the Creator’s design stumbles and in so doing provides a powerful teaching example to others and the offspring.
Although choosing clothing that is more sexual is not by itself an indication of sexual addiction, more likely the partial nakedness in front of the public could certainly speed up the shameless nakedness in front of someone other than the one flesh. Likewise, appearing fully clothed in public does not indicate commitment to exclusivity of the one flesh. Whether clothed or partially clothed, it is important to avoid the opportunities for disobeying the Creator’s design and neither put yourself into temptation nor tempt others as stated by the Messiah in Matthew 7: 12, “Do to others whatever you would have them do to you. This is the law and the prophets.”
We are all in this together and not against one another. It is unfair, unequal and unethical, to say the least, to tempt others directly and indirectly − to influence them to break their commitments to their one flesh, their children and the Creator’s design to fulfill someone’s immediate sexual addictions. Treat others as your own mother and father and ask yourself whether your logic can justify tempting them directly or indirectly!
Today, I find the experiences of disobeying the Creator’s design or commandment are somewhat different from what Adam and Eve experienced. Adam and Eve were tested by the powerful, scary, untrustworthy and cunning serpent. However, today we are not tested by a scary powerful serpent, rather we are tested by other human beings and often our close intimate partners, friends, helpers, neighbors, co-workers and colleagues whom we love or shared our Genetic makeup. Adam and Eve were tested by an outside non-human serpent, but today we are tested by another human being who is often a trusted spouse. Eve courageously and honestly sacrificed herself first then offered the sacrifice to her one flesh Adam. However, today the guilty spouse cons his/ or her own one flesh and children, willingly sacrificing them.
The moment Adam and Eve chose Labor and Death, they immediately felt the impact by experiencing their nakedness and thus hid, although no other human being existed. However, today committing fornication or adultery (although it violates not only the Creator’s commandments, but also the Creator’s design) differs from the experience Adam and Eve had. Adam and Eve experienced what was previously unknown, thus the impact was remarkable and was experienced both immediately and over the long-term. The obvious experiences of the effect of fornication or adultery during life are short-term warning signs of the Creator’s verbal and nonverbal communication to encourage us to overcome our weaknesses before it is too late. Unfortunately, our numbness is further enforced by rationalizations and excuses and confuses the immediate and delayed warning signals.
The negative effect of fornication or adultery is experienced most by the sensitive children who have the Genetic makeup of their parents. One would expect that looking in the eyes of the children and feeling their cries would provide a sufficient warning signal to the numb parents about the tragedy of breaking the Creator’s design and its effects not only after death, but during life. Unfortunately, people who commit fornication or adultery numb their sensitivity to the young’s cries by creating what appear to be “family” terminologies such as stepfather, stepmother, stepparents, step grandparents and extended families − when in fact all these terminologies confuse the Creator’s design for a family and its roles. Although people may show genuine love to each other, these so-called “families” are based on sexual addictions founded by betrayal of one’s family as designed by the Creator. There is no guarantee how long a stepparent will last; sex addicts jump from one-step-parent, step-boyfriend or step-girlfriend to the next, busying themselves with the temporary fulfillment of sexual addiction needs rather than abiding by the Creator’s design.
Therefore, fornication or adultery represents remarriage and that means redesigning the Creator’s timeless design and redesigning the divine Trinity image and likeness of the Creator. That is of course impossible, inexcusable, and could be unforgivable and severely punished by the Creator.