The Garden of Eden was never meant to be a place where Adam and Eve were to romp naked and enjoy the fruits of love, sex, and procreation. Eden represented a holy place, therefore it was necessary to exit the Garden of Eden once Eve realized what nakedness meant. It was only when Eve reached out to ‘the tree of the knowledge of good and evil’ that there was any sexual attraction towards Adam. Eve was well aware that if she remained obedient to the law ‘do not taste, do not touch’, she would remain in Eden forever without offspring.
‘A More Glorious Eden’ explains why a transgression was inevitable. The traditional view that the penalty for Adam and Eve’s disobedience extended beyond Eden and out into the earth so that even the plants and animals began to die, has no scriptural foundation. Long before religion invented the idea that we die because of sin, the cycle of life and death was already in play. Before mankind and the land animals appeared on earth, life, death, and the regeneration of life was as natural as night following day. Each species has always held the blueprint that duplicates itself ‘according to its kind’ from one generation to the next whether life is in the sea, land, or sky. The principle of ‘the seed within itself’ is central to the meaning of ‘everlasting life’. Were it not for the transgression, the ‘seed’ that was to bring life and immortality to life would not have come to fruition (1 Timothy 1:10).
Genesis holds a parallel narrative that reveals a fundamental truth about the nature of Adam and why the belief in a ‘fall’, or as many believe, ‘original sin’, is actually not true. It was not the ‘serpent’ that lied, but the religions that have based their beliefs around Adam being the cause of all the evil in the world, that is a lie.