When God created the world, it was perfect until Adam disobeyed God's direct instruction.
Yeah, right, only if you ignore the one thing wrong that was corrected and the four other things that hinted at a sinful state in HIS creation which should move us to redefine
'very good'...
First, a note about there being no PROOF verses such as a stick in your eye type of proof. Even
Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed you in the womb I knew you...is explained away by the orthodox folk who have had 4000 years to puzzle out alternative meanings for these HINTS to the doctrine of our pce which may be the theology that is to be hidden till the end times.
Sin in the Garden prior to the eating of the fruit:
1. Adam was being rebellious to seek his mate amongst the animals. Not only was it
not good (
lo tov) that Adam was alone but this was corrected by the arrival of Eve before things were finally called
very good.
But why was Adam looking for a helpmeet among the animals in the first pace?? GOD knew HE had Eve planned so an animal wasn't in HIS plans at all. Who thought of the idea to look among the animals for his helpmeet anyway?? Certainly it was not GOD! So if Adam was righteous and faithful, it seems logical that GOD would say, "Not here, bud, I got a woman for you!" Why did GOD let him go through the charade of looking amongst the animals for his helpmeet if Adam was not being rebellious?
2. The root word for Adam and Eve being
naked and the serpent being
crafty in an evil is the same word,
`rm.* They can be read the opposite, ie, Adam and Eve were crafty and the serpent was naked if so desired. The vowels that make them to be naked or crafty were not put into the writing until ç600AD. The reason the Rabbis and the Church Father's chose naked for Adam and Eve was their decision that all mankind was created at conception (traducianism) or at birth (creationism of the soul), so as newly created in the garden they had to be innocent since GOD does not create evil...[at least until HE wants evil people so HE supposedly created the rest of us in Adam's sin but that is a different blasphemy].
*There is also a perfectly good word about Noah that describes the nakedness of being unclothed with absolutely no chance of thinking it meant evil.
Naked is a metaphor for evil in other parts of scripture.
Rev 3:17 You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. 18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see. Where is the sin in being unclothed in your own garden as GOD made you? Even if naked refers to sex, how could it be sinful if they were commanded to procreate? No, the telling part of this verse is "
They were not ashamed!". If there was no sin in being naked then why bring up shame? They were not over 12 feet tall either but there is no hint that they should be ashamed of that.
The reference to their shame is echoed in
Rev 3:17-18, being a sinner is shameful but those blinded by sin need their eyes opened by the Lord's salve and their shame covered by white garments, the righteous acts of the saints,
Rev 19:18.
It is also curious how, when their eyes were finally opened to their sin, they saw their being naked, a nakedness they had before they ate,
not their eating. The only thing that happened when they ate was that they now saw their sinfulness / nakedness and were ashamed but their nakedness did not change in the least. So, if being unclothed is no sin, why did they suddenly become ashamed of their nakedness when they sinned?
3. Eve treats the serpent like a mentor or pastor. Is it not a sin to fraternize with a demon this way? IF she was innocent then why did GOD allow the serpent access to her and not warn her to beware of him? How can we consider HIM to be the most loving to this innocent girl, letting the serpent deceive her? BUT if she was already sinful and the serpent was her friend, a friend whom she had to learn to repudiate, then HE might have let the serpent deceive her to open her eyes to her own sinfulness and to the serpent's sin so she would never choose to follow him over her GOD ever again.
4. The bible is pretty clear that the law / commands are given to convict sinners of their sinfulness.
1 Tim 1:9...knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, etc... Why? Romans 3:20 For the Law merely brings awareness [convicts] of sin.
Thus for Adam and Eve to be given a command is an indication that they were sinners who needed their eyes to be opened to their sin by their failure to obey an easy command.
5. Adam was first to bring sin into the world.
Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man...yet the serpent entered the garden with an evil nature and evil intent before Adam ate and Eve sinned by befriending him or at least by eating first so Adam was the third person to sin in the world. This contradiction is impossible unless he was already a sinner when he came into the world and brought his sin with him as the first person to be sown, not created as per
Matt 13:36-39, ie, brought into the world by the breath of GOD.