I was reading a passage from Genesis earlier and was wondering about 'the fall'.
When I was a child I was very devout, I loved God and doubt wasn't even on the horizon. As I grew I seperated from God to the point where I no longer believed in Him at all.
I could remember the Garden of Eden, but an exile, I couldn't return there.
This morning, with my favourite type of wild Atlantic weather blowing in I was on the beach. Settled on my road back, these days at times I pray hard for help and guidance. So it was on the beach today. When I got home I settled down to read a little - as it happened the pages fell open on 'the fall'. I've been thinking about this for the day and it seems to me that Christ offers an escape from exile, a return to the Garden if you will.
Is that a reasonable way to make sense of the story of the fall do you think?
When I was a child I was very devout, I loved God and doubt wasn't even on the horizon. As I grew I seperated from God to the point where I no longer believed in Him at all.
I could remember the Garden of Eden, but an exile, I couldn't return there.
This morning, with my favourite type of wild Atlantic weather blowing in I was on the beach. Settled on my road back, these days at times I pray hard for help and guidance. So it was on the beach today. When I got home I settled down to read a little - as it happened the pages fell open on 'the fall'. I've been thinking about this for the day and it seems to me that Christ offers an escape from exile, a return to the Garden if you will.
Is that a reasonable way to make sense of the story of the fall do you think?