Leaving the Garden
- North of the garden there is a sea that man can wash his sins in
- God did not permit Adam and Eve to bath in the sea because he didn't want their sins to be forgiven
- He did not want to put them in the southern parts in case man got tempted by the smell of the trees and eat their fruit
- He made man dwell in the Cave of Treasures below the garden
- God made Adam walk on the earth until five and a half days and leave the garden
- Adam did not understand what he said and thought the world would only last five and half days and cried
- It was actually 5500 until someone would save Adam and "his seed"
- God changed the form of the tree of which Adam and Eve ate from and it looked withered
- When Adam went near the gate of the garden, he saw an angel that held a sword of flashing fire and thought he was going to die and he and Eve fainted
- At this point in the story, the language gets harder and harder to understand for me
- The angel had mercy on them and asked God what to do
- God was pretty merciful to Adam and Eve even though they went against him and ate the fruit
- Adam and Eve entered the cave and prayed until Adam fainted and Eve cried
- Eve asked god to save Adam and to blame her for the sin instead (which I thought was nice of her)
- Eve and Adam died and God brought them back to life
- God seemed like a strict parent. Loving yet willing to to discipline.
- Adam was scared that the animals would try to kill him and God then told them not to
- All the beasts obeyed, except for the serpent
- Adam and Eve then came across the river that came from the Tree of Life and wept
- Then they died
- God continues to raise Adam and Eve from death
- Adam tells God that before their sin, they didn't need water, but now they do.
- They continue to cry
- The darkness that Adam and Eve were in was not a punishment, but it was day and night
- God then told Adam that one day he will be born as one of Adam's seed and save him from his punishment
- Adam thought that the Sun was God and the heat it emitted was supposed to be a punishment but God told him it wasn't
- Adam was very childlike
- As Adam and Eve left the garden, they found Satan in serpent form suffering the curse that God had given it
- The snake blamed Adam and Eve for its punishment and tried to kill them but God intervened
- God took away its ability to speak and threw it all the way to India
- I want to write a story about the snake and how it became to be this way in the perspective of one of the snake's descendants
Photo of a garter snake.
"Garter snake" by Mattysflicks, August 2013. Source: Flickr.
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