Adam & Eve

The First Archetypal Fall

 Description of the Garden of Eden:
•Planted Eastward in Eden
•Tree of Life (gives
everlasting life) and the
Tree of Knowledge of Good
and Evil in the middle of the
garden
• A river ran through the
garden and parted into four
different rivers once it left
the garden:
-Pison
-Gihon (from Ethiopia)
-Hiddekel (ancient name
of the Tigris)
-Euphrates
•Man and Woman were
placed in the garden to take
care of it
The Gift of Choice: The First Command
•There is only one thing in
the garden that Adam and
Eve cannot eat: The Tree of
Knowledge of Good and Evil

•The penalty for disobeying

this command is death…
“for in the day that thou
eatest thereof thou shalt
surely die.”

•Adam is the only one who

actually hears this command
from God; it becomes his
duty to tell Eve after she is
created of the command of
God.
The Creation of Woman, Adam’s Mate
•Woman means “out of
man” since she was created
from Adam’s rib (from his
side to show she was equal)

•Adam names all the

animals and then gets to
name the new creation, and
he chooses “Woman.” She
doesn’t get another name
until after the Fall.

•Both Adam and Eve were

naked and did not know it
because they were
completely innocent.
The Temptation and Fall of Man
•The animals in the Garden
of Eden must have been
able to talk because Eve
showed no surprise when
the serpent began talking to
her.
• Eve may have been
approached first because
she did not directly receive
the command from God and
thus it may not have had as
much of an impression with
her.
• Adam and Eve did not eat
an apple, it was a fruit.
Adam chose to eat the fruit;
it was not forced on him.
 The Curses
•Adam and Eve both
instinctively blamed
someone else for their sin:
Adam blamed God and Eve
blamed the serpent.
• Serpent’s Curse:
-to crawl on his belly and
eat the dust of the
ground
-Emnity (hatred) between
woman and snakes
•Woman’s Curse:
-pain in childbirth
-submissive to man
•Man’s Curse:
-work the ground…weeds will
now grow
-death
 The Expulsion
•God killed the first animals
for their skin to provide
clothes and food.
• Adam renames Woman to
Eve since he now knows she
will be the mother of all
living.
• Man has to be kicked out
of the garden because if he
ate of the Tree of Life, he
would gain eternal life
again.
• A Cherubim (warrior
angel) guarded the gate of
the Garden of Eden with a
flaming sword.