In Adam

In a closer examination of Adam, we need to assess what Adam possessed within himself, (for it is through Adam that the human race was born.) First of all, Adam’s purpose in life was four-fold:

1. He was created to have fellowship with and be in Oneness with God, his Father and Creator.

We must understand that Adam had full fellowship with God when he began, God talked with him, he heard God’s voice and instruction, he was not afraid of God but rather could be considered to be his son and friend. Fellowship with God required no effort on Adam’s part, but rather, it was simply given to him as a gift. This relationship actually became part of who he was, and his complete consciousness of God was consistent and ongoing.

Being made in the Image of God, he was created to be perfect, beautiful, sinless, with total God consciousness, and the full knowledge that he is loved, in total freedom, knowing he is complete and in Oneness with God. What could be better than that?


2.God gave Adam a job and that was to dress the garden – Genesis 2:15.

God put the desire in Adam to work, but it was effortless work, the yoke was easy and to “dress” and keep the garden God had given him was meant to be a pleasurable task for him.

When God gave Adam the land, he gave him a job to “dress it and keep it.” The word “dress” here in the Hebrew means to labour, work, serve. The next word we would like to look at is “keep” : to guard, observe, protect, treasure, and preserve. In effect Adam was to take care of this garden as if it were precious to him.


3. To bring forth sons and daughters unto God, (of course with Eve’s help – Genesis 2:18).

Procreation was a great purpose for Adam, for it included the help of his wife Eve in order to do so, and they were to fill the entire earth with sons and daughters that were to grow up in the image of God and for the purpose of God.

With Adam being given the ability to procreate, (which was a gift from God to man), for it gave him the ability to bring forth something, like God had. God created man in His Image, now man would have this “god-like” attribute, bringing forth children of God. At this point, Adam and Eve have not been intimate yet, the bible is clear about that, for it wasn’t until Genesis 4:1 that they begin to procreate. At the time in which we refer to before the Fall of man, Adam held in his loins the seeds to all of humanity. At this point, the entirety of the human race was going to be perfect, sinless, and living in the same manner that Adam and his wife were.

4. Have dominion (rule) over every bird of the air and everything that moves upon the earth (Genesis 2:18).

Everything that Adam could see, he was to have dominion or rule over. That means that all things were to obey him, it was all created for his use and purpose. One could say that as all things were brought into subjection to Adam (mankind), that since he was in fact living for the purposes that God created him for, he was doing the will of his Father.

Adam and Eve were to rule over all of the aforementioned things: birds of the air and everything that moves upon the earth. That was huge! That means that God basically created the entire planet and just gave it to this man and his wife!! Since man was at total oneness with God, this would be no difficult feat though. Man had God’s voice and Divine assistance if at all needed. He had nothing to worry about.

Everything was going great, as we all know, life is NOT what we have just read. What caused such a thing to occur? Most of us know what happens next. The serpent, (which typifies the devil) tempts Eve to eat from the tree in which God commanded them not to, he twists God’s words that God spoke, she doesn’t remember the exact wording of God’s command. The serpent tells her that she and Adam will become like gods and know good and evil like God does if she eats of it. She partakes, shares with her husband, they both fall into sin, (having disobeyed God’s only rule), and it’s downhill from there!

Now their eyes are opened, they both realize that they are naked, but they don’t want God to know that they are naked so they find the worst possible leaf to cover themselves with. With fig leafs sown together, they also hide behind a bush from God when they hear His Voice, God gets Adam to admit what has happened and starts handing out the consequences of their actions. God kills an innocent animal in order that they might be properly covered and casts them out of Paradise, not allowing them back in the garden.

Man loses everything that he had known previously: He lost his oneness with God and is now separated from a Holy God by his sin. Now the garden that he once kept effortlessly has become hard labor and work that has to be done on his own, for his former father will not provide those things for him anymore. His children will now be made in the likeness of sinful Adam and Eve instead of after the perfect image of a Holy God. Now, since in his loins existed every human being that would ever live, we are all in a fallen and sinful nature at birth. Because of one man’s offense toward God, we are now damned and cursed, cast out of God’s presence forever and forever. The dominion that they had over the earth, is gone. God is no longer their Heavenly Father, they are now a father of the devil, we are all satan’s spawn so to speak. We have no blessings following us, our lives are hard, our morals corrupt and when we are born, we are born dying instead of living forever.

This is the revised version of events, all of which we come back to in a while and examine in more detail, but we want the reader to notice the turn of events that has occurred.

It wouldn’t seem as though eating of that silly little tree would have been something that would have created such havoc as it did. Do we really and truly understand how very deep the fall really was? Can the human mind actually fathom the eternal greatness that God had originally intended for us?

Adam was created to live forever, but after the fall he lived to be 930 years old. The average life for a United States citizen is not to exceed 75 years of age. Adam’s acquaintance with perfection gave him many years of life. When speaking to anyone over 20 years of age these days, we can all safely admit that life is not presently like it was “when we were kids.” When we look around the world, it seems to be getting worse and worse. Violence, murders, abuse, pain, suffering, poverty, sickness and disease, hate crimes, addictions and vices, sexual lifestyles and habits, and so many other things seem to be getting increasingly more sinful. When we look around, we don’t see much of anything in the behavior of the majority that reflect the perfection what we all visualize Heaven to be like in our minds.

Fortunately for us, God was so in love with His creation that He made provision for mans' tangled web of mistakes.