Genesis Chapter 2

THUS the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew; for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

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This explains that God rested from his toils on the seventh day. (read, his seventh day; or the seventh day worth mentioning in the history of the creation of earth and the cosmos.) Before creation, plants did not grow because there was not any rain and no man to till the ground to help it grow. This drives home that the purpose of man is to till and tend for the earth and all the fruits that it holds and bears.

Interesting to note is that at this point, it goes into detail about the creation of man; that he was made from the very dirt and dust of the earth. This, science has supplied itself by stating that all organisms (at least on our planet) are comprised of the same basic components and all are born of the earth. Or, one could take this to show that at this point of human history; the dawn of man; we had a shove into humanity by an outside force, most probably alien interference which is supported by Mayan and Aztec symbols and stories; Greek and Roman Mythology; the Egyptian Pyramids and many other legends and religions. Possible, also, is the idea that time travel exists and our own future descendants are responsible for our past growth.

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And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison; that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second rive if Gihon; the same is it that compasseth the land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel; that is it which goeth toward the rest of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

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At this point, it is a point that must be made to show that this must obviously be an orchard of sorts; obviously well-regulated in terms of temperature, weather, etc. This tends to point more toward the possibility of a bio-dome wherein man is placed to tend to the fruits of the Orchard. The tree of life; which is the basis of many stories and legends; is in the center; and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is there as well.

What is interesting to think about is the idea of the tree of knowledge approached with modern thinking. Would it have been the tree of the knowledge of good and evil if God hadn't forbade Adam and Eve to eat its fruit? Probably not. Because God did forbid them from eating the fruit, when they inevitably did eat it; not seeing the harm of it in their naivety and innocence; they became suddenly aware that they had done wrong and sought to hide from God what they had done. But, it was too late, because that was now in their head, like a tumor.

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And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, though shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

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This seems like a harsh lie coming from God; since we know Adam and Eve did not die from eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge; but I believe that 'God' did this for a reason. Mankind had a chance to live in peace and happiness, insofar as they were able to follow a simple rule. The fear of death was there to make sure that man did not break the rule due to simple folly; that he thought it through and made sure it was the choice he wanted to make. At the same time as wanting man to live a life free of misery and pain; God wanted to give man a choice in the matter; the ability to exercise free will. Obviously, the true God of everything would have had to have known ahead of time what would happen and was happy with the end result of both scenarios. But, we'll get to that later on when we get more into the story of Adam and Eve.

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And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them; and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, this is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

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Obviously, God did not bring every beast to Adam, because we're still finding animals and such today that we've never encountered before; whether that was due to the fact that they didn't exist before or because they've evolved since then into something else, I don't know. This really drives home, though, that whoever made us; whether God or Alien; intended us to have dominion over this planet, to allow us to name each animal ourselves instead of using the names they must have already given to them.

It also stands as a point that we were intended to view animals as equals, as they were brought forward to ease Adam's loneliness as friends. A deep sleep overcame Adam; i.e., he was knocked out and then operated on, and they removed his rib to create a female of his species. This definitely shows advanced technology in quite a few ways; as God would not have had need to knock Adam out nor to remove a rib from him, if he sought to create a mate for him.

It does show that Man was intended to protect woman as if she was a part of him; that meeting of the two was meant to be indefinite; that this is the reason why man should leave the company of his parents, so that he may have a family of his own. Doesn't say anywhere, though, that man and woman are not equal.

It also points out that in this era of pure innocence and naivety; self-consciousness has not played a part. Being naked wasn't a big deal and was natural. Only later, when they eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, do they realize their nakedness, and there are a variety of reasons for that which I will get into at the appropriate time.





As a side note, my interpretation shows a confliction of ideas and thoughts and that's not my own doing, but the doing of people who have written the bible. They have take multiple things, lumped them all up to the same benefactor and packaged them as a whole when they should most likely be taken as separate things. The creation of the Eden and Adam and Eve, for example; are most likely signs of interference from advanced technology. Even the creation of the Earth could be attributed to that; or at least the creation of Earth into a habitable planet.

My belief in God has always been that if there is one, it is the embodiment of goodness; otherwise we all would have already been dead eons ago; and it exists in and around and through us all and everything else in existence, both within our world and outside of it. Everything. God would not appear in a physical form anywhere at any time, because it would undermine the rules of non-engagement that he set himself; allowing his creations to rule themselves. If anything, God would send agents to advise and warn, but inevitably it would be up to man to make his own decisions.

At any point in time where it says that God appeared physically, or manifested in some way; we have to assume that this is due to the individual fancy of the person claiming that this has happened (give the nature of man today to deceive with stories to make himself sound better, this is utterly believable.) or that those that have appeared have been agents of God; or that they are alien/future versions of our own race, as none of the manifestations are perfect and God is perfection. That is not to say that God may not send some of these things as manifestations with messages for people to hear. God always has open-minded individuals and vessels carry his work into the physical realm so that we may better understand things. While God has allowed us our free will, he still cares about us enough to want us to do well by ourselves. Of course, with the counter-force of the devil; or the demons that mankind unleashed upon themselves by eating of the fruit from the tree of knowledge; opening Pandora's box; some of these messages get waylaid, or misinterpreted, or altogether corrupted.

At any rate, that's enough for today.