Imagine. One minute there is complete darkness, void of everything and the next light with color, smells, sounds, emotions, objects, and textures. What would your first thoughts be? How would you react to suddenly seeing your hand and realizing it is attached to you arm? Then, you follow your arm up to your shoulder and look over your chest. After that, you look down at your feet and wiggle your toes. If you were able to see your reflection what would be your response? Would you be comfortable with your shape and all of its parts? What about breathing? Would you, at first, try to stop breathing?
What about the new smells? How would you describe a smell if you didn’t know what things were called? What about speech? What sounds would you make? What would you call things? Would you attempt to create a language to describe everything you saw? Would you not care to name anything at all?
What about colors? Would you express emotion over certain colors? Would you have a favorite? Would colors represent a good thing or a bad thing? For example, if you like the colors orange and red and you touched fire, would the colors orange and red initially be associated as a bad thing?
Imagine textures. Imagine the softness of a kitten or the roughness of tree bark. Imagine the grittiness of sand when rubbed in your hand and then the slight scratching sensation of letting it drain through your fingers. Or imagine the cool sensation of dipping your hand into a gently flowing stream and feeling the smooth resistance of wiggling your fingers under the water or the sudden pressure from turning your hand to stop the flow.
What would you think of a cool breeze or the warmth from the sun?
What would you like or dislike?
Would you fear anything?
Would you be happy?
Would you want to understand how you came about?
Would you realize that you were indeed created?
I wrote this to inspire you to think of Adam, the first created man on the earth. Although Adam did have God present to comfort and guide him I still do wonder what he would have experienced at the instant of life.
When God created Adam the Bible says that God created him from the dust and breathed life into him. It does not specifically say what intelligence Adam was initially given although it appears that he was able to communicate and reason. We also don’t know how long Adam was on the earth with God or even the time span between his creation and the creation of Eve. God did let Adam name all living creatures which would allow him to become more familiar with them and it shows that God spent time developing Adam. He also gave Adam almost unlimited freedom in the garden even though God was the ultimate authority. Although Adam was created instantly, I believe God used true wisdom in allowing Adam to develop gradually so he would become an individual, not separate from God, but an individual with his own likes and dislikes and understanding of who he was and what his needs were.
Read Genesis, chapters 1 and 2.
On philosopher says the creation of "Adam" would actually be a pluralism not a singular man. So, "Adam" was a group of men, but they were the first and they were called "Adam". The same would be true for "Eve". What do you think about that?
ReplyDeleteDeb,
DeleteI would like to thank you for taking the time to comment to my blog. :)
I am going to include some bible verses for reference for you to read in answer to your question. If you noticed in the first example I provide the Bible states that God took "the man (Adam) and placed "him (singular). Later you will read that God took a rib from Adam and made "a woman (singular) and they became husband and wife and Adam called his wife Eve. I don't know how the philosopher could derive the statement that Adam and Eve represented a group of people. Please read Genesis for better understanding.
Have a great Easter weekend!
Kyle
Genesis 2
15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
18 The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.
But for Adam[f] no suitable helper was found. 21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs[g] and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib[h] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
23 The man said,
“This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called ‘woman,’
for she was taken out of man.”
24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
25 Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
And Genesis 3
20 Adam[c] named his wife Eve,[d] because she would become the mother of all the living.
21 The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
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ReplyDeleteand who's pen wrote Genesis and what year did he write it? Someone was *inspired* to write it down for us humans to read.
ReplyDeleteWhat language did it originate in?
Translation can make subtle changes in word meanings.
Have you cross referenced your bible version to the Tora?
Just wondering.
Hello Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteI do want to thank you for taking the time to post your questions. I'm not sure of the reason for your questions as it seems to stray from the topic of my original post. Please email me with your concerns to the content I provided and I will try to answer your questions the best I can.
Take care!
Kyle