Time is found--Time to blog
To take a break from studying for a Spanish test.
I'm stressed out man! Applications for grad schools have to be finished; recommendations have to be rounded up; essays have to be written; honors theses topics must be decided upon; capstone research must be decided upon; reading must be completed; presentations must be prepared; the GRE must be prepared for and taken; etc., etc. All taken with the joys of senoritis.
In the Garden, the Serpent whispers to Eve, and for the first time in this story, he used 'Elohim (God) instead of YHWH 'Elohim (the LORD God). This subtle wordplay has an effect on Eve and the reader--or hearer as the story originally came about. What the Serpent has just done is to intimate the existence of other gods, a vast caste system in the cosmos, saying she will become like one. Thus, the Serpent shortens the perceived infinite gap between God and man, hinting the distance isn't so far as what Eve would have thought. The distance between God, gods, and man is not so great.
Go ahead Eve--"Mother-of-all-Living"--, eat up.
The fact that this is the first insight we have into the thoughts of Eve, coupled with the fact that that sneaky snake disappears immediately after this temptation, also joined with the fact that Adam seems to have been standing there all along, unawares--all of this may suggest that this entire event was in Eve's head, or heart. Perhaps this was the first greatest battle, not with Satan, but with ourselves. Furthermore, no other details are given, suggesting that details matter little in our relations with sin. Adam passively accepts.
Go ahead Adam--"Mankind"--, eat up.
I'm stressed out man! Applications for grad schools have to be finished; recommendations have to be rounded up; essays have to be written; honors theses topics must be decided upon; capstone research must be decided upon; reading must be completed; presentations must be prepared; the GRE must be prepared for and taken; etc., etc. All taken with the joys of senoritis.
In the Garden, the Serpent whispers to Eve, and for the first time in this story, he used 'Elohim (God) instead of YHWH 'Elohim (the LORD God). This subtle wordplay has an effect on Eve and the reader--or hearer as the story originally came about. What the Serpent has just done is to intimate the existence of other gods, a vast caste system in the cosmos, saying she will become like one. Thus, the Serpent shortens the perceived infinite gap between God and man, hinting the distance isn't so far as what Eve would have thought. The distance between God, gods, and man is not so great.
Go ahead Eve--"Mother-of-all-Living"--, eat up.
The fact that this is the first insight we have into the thoughts of Eve, coupled with the fact that that sneaky snake disappears immediately after this temptation, also joined with the fact that Adam seems to have been standing there all along, unawares--all of this may suggest that this entire event was in Eve's head, or heart. Perhaps this was the first greatest battle, not with Satan, but with ourselves. Furthermore, no other details are given, suggesting that details matter little in our relations with sin. Adam passively accepts.
Go ahead Adam--"Mankind"--, eat up.
