Genesis 3
3Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God say, ‘You shall not eat from any tree in the garden’?â€2The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden;3but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it, or you shall die.’“4But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not die;5for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.â€
6So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate.7Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.8They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
9But the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?â€10He said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.â€
11He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?â€12The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.â€13Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?†The woman said, “The serpent tricked me, and I ate.â€
14The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you among all animals and among all wild creatures; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.15I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.â€
16To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.â€
17And to the man he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;18thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.19By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.â€
20The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
21And the LORD God made garments of skins for the man and for his wife, and clothed them.
22Then the LORD God said, “See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live foreverâ€â€”23therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.24He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a sword flaming and turning to guard the way to the tree of life. [NRSV]
http://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Genesis+1:27-31&vnum=yes&version=nrsv“garments of skinsâ€
I am very curious to know what is the meaning of the original Hebrew for “garments of skinsâ€
Garments/of skins what precisely does this indicate.?
Christian writer Mary Jo Weaver has this to say in Introduction To Christianity (International Thomson Publishing, London, 1998), p. 33
“God created a man and a woman, gave them everything they could possibly want in terms of comfort and power, and added one more gift, freedom. God wanted them to respond freely, not by force. No, the biblical authors tell us, this gift of freedom was put to a test in a very direct way. God told them they could eat the fruit of every tree in the garden except one. It is the doctrine of conditional joy…In religious language, we say that the first man and woman were tempted, egged on to do something they were not supposed to do. In the biblical story, the man and woman weakened and gave in, and the biblical author says it was because they were tempted by a clever serptent. How can we interpret this story, then? Were the man and woman out-smarted? Were they just weak and curious? Did they sin? Some believers interpret the action of the first man and woman as one of pride and self-deception, others as an expression of the desire of people to set their own limits, be their own God. Whatever the interpretation, their action, their disobedience, changed things—life was no longer lived in a beautiful garden. Painful realities entered into human life: work now included frustration and might be fruitless as well as difficult, birth occurred within a context of pain, and sickness and death became a part of human experience…â€
And what was so worthy of suffering and death? One has to imagine, particularly a non-Christian not raised by Christians, like myself, will be quite curious.
This fellow says the original sin was sex!
MarkOfBeastRevealed
http://www.youtube.com/user/MarkofBeastRevealed?ob=0&feature=results_mainas in this video where he is quite passionate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIR-IpjxpxYAnd the Muslims also think masturbation is evil and against their demon allah, as below from one sarmadq
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-dHgqldTEMBy the way, forgive me if these questions are quite basic. I will pose but one more basic question and perhaps not even soon. (Also do not feel rushed I understand you are quite busy.) Thank you so much! :-)