Adam and Eve
“The dimensions of his body were
gigantic, reaching from heaven to earth, or, what amounts to the same, from
east to west.”
This quote immediately caught me
off guard because I was expecting the story to be more traditional instead of
imaginative, but the outlandish features of Adam made the story intriguing. The
section comparing the soul and God seemed very accurate because of the mystic surrounding
both of them. While you cannot see either of them, both can see you and know
the depth of your being. It is quite a paradox.
As the author talks about some of
the great characters of the Bible, he mentions their faults, which lead to many
of their deaths. Sometimes perfection isn’t as great as it seems. This section
reminded me of the movie Seven, which
is about seven people who die due to their obsession with one of the seven
deadly sins.
The Fall of Satan:There seems to be a theme in this section of the stories where Adam takes the
place of God’s perfection. Adam is almost his representative in full bodily
form – similar to Jesus. Specifically, Adam is similar to God because of the
actual story of Satan’s fall from heaven. Satan desires to be the all-knowing
God and disqualifies himself from being in the heavenly realm after repeatedly
disobeying. In this story though, Satan desires Adam’s flawlessness.
When God scolded Satan for his resistance to paying homage
to Adam, God burned him good. If I was told I had less wisdom than a creature
created from the dust, I would feel mightily insignificant.
Lilith: I thought
it interesting that the act the animals saw setting Adam and God apart was
sleep. The fact that Adam had to/ could sleep meant his mortal body couldn’t
resist the state of tiredness.
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