The meaning of Garden of Eden



 

What character is Adam that is created for the first time in the world? 『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.』(Genesis2:7) Soul is Pshuke in Greek. It is usually translated to breath, vitality, mind, mind, and so on. But soul is not spirit. Adam who is made by clay and is not a spiritual being, but a soul. God did not put the spirit into the clay, but he gave the energy of life. So the shape of the soil became living being. God puts the Spirit into living living in Eden .

『And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.』(Genesis 2:8) In the Garden of Eden, man became a spiritual being as the image of God because he ate the fruit of the tree of life.

The spiritual being is one with God in the Holy Spirit. Although he is a spiritual being, God makes a covenant with him.『But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.』(Genesis 2:17) God gave him a way to discern good and evil. Good is an attribute to appears on eat the fruits of the tree of life. Evil is the devil. He can see that the devil is evil when he eat the fruit of the tree of life. So the devil try to remove the fruits of the good and evil. But Adam and Eve sinned against God.

God wants to save their spirit. God killed the animal himself, made leather clothes, and clothed Adam and Eve. But they have driven them out of the Garden of Eden to the world because of their sin. The Garden of Eden symbolizes the kingdom of God. Man in the Garden of Eden was the body of eternal life. The human being who returns to the world is the body to die. They had to die because they were born in the world originally.

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