What do you think about 'the fall'?

[Neo2]

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?

 

[ebia]

yes

 

[ContraMundum]

Yes...not too bad!

 

[Stan53]

Yep. You have about got the guts of it. Except remember there is only one way back. Other wise we are permanentl exiles.

 

[TomUK]

Except we're not merely returning to same old garden as before but to a brand new creation. 'Behold, I make all things new'.

 

[vespasia]

I think Gods plan is redemption as the tree from Genesis appears again at the end of Revelation.

 

[Secundulus]

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?

I think you understand it well.

Except we're not merely returning to same old garden as before but to a brand new creation. 'Behold, I make all things new'.

Exactly.