Reading Notes: Adam and Eve Reading B

• Worship and Blessing  (Book of Adam and Eve)
• The Forgotten Books of Eden, edited by Rutherford H. Platt, Jr. Web Source.



(Adam and Eve at an Altar they built for God: Web source.)

• Characters: God, Adam, and Eve
• In this story, Adam and Eve build an altar through their own hard work and offer up a sacrifice to God for their sin and to make more requests to God. God told Adam that he was pleased with his sacrifice, but he could not enter the garden until the convent of 5500 years had passed. When making sacrifices Adam often thought of offering himself to pay for his sin, but God would not allow it. Again, I am very leery of changing the story too much, as it is the word of God, however I think that it would be awesome to change this story into God's perspective. In most of these stories, we see Adams side of things and how sad he is he has been kicked out of the garden, but his sadness does not even compete with God's. God created man in his image and gave him life and a perfect place to dwell, however, he still disobeyed God. I can not even imagine how hurt God is/was. Retelling this story from God's point of view would make this story even more sad, however, when his child find him again it will turn into a happy ending.