According to the first chapter of Genesis, after God created flowers, plants and animals, he also created people, a man and a woman, in his own image, hoping that they would reproduce, fill the earth, govern it, manage all living things in the sky, underground and ocean, and give them vegetables, fruits and animals as food. This Bible shows that man is a portrait of God, ranking higher than other creatures and entrusted to manage everything on earth on behalf of God. Today, people can exploit the natural resources in the world, drive the creatures on the earth to serve mankind, and even provide human beings with meat, skin and hair. No one thinks it's inappropriate, that's why.
God created his grandfather Adam.
With regard to the process of God's creation of Adam, the second chapter of Genesis says: God created man from the dust of the earth, and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, so that man became a living creature and named him Adam. God shaped Adam's body from the dust on the ground. He exhaled a breath from his nostrils. The breath of life means that God created a soul in his own image. Blowing into his nostrils means that God has given this soul to his body made of dust, and this body has become a spiritual creature-Adam. This means that man is a combination of soul and body, and soul gives life to body. Blow through the nostrils, because the breath of gas comes in and out through the nostrils. Qi is life, and where there is qi, there is life. As the saying goes, as long as I have breath. Swallow your breath and you will die. The soul is the life of the body. When the soul leaves the body, the body becomes a corpse or remains.
Human Virtue and Primitive Justice in the Garden of Eden
In the second chapter of Genesis, it is said that after God created Adam, he placed him in the Garden of Eden, told him to guard the paradise, and named the animals in the paradise. God gave him an order, saying, "You can eat the fruits of all kinds of trees in paradise, but you should not eat the fruits of the trees that can distinguish good from evil, because if you eat them on that day, you will definitely die." The tree of knowing good and evil symbolizes a kind of goodness given by God, which can distinguish right from wrong and distinguish good from evil. If people obey God's instructions and do good and avoid evil, they can share God's eternal life and eternal happiness. If people violate their conscience, obey their selfish desires and commit crimes, they will lose eternal life and suffer death. From this Bible, we can see how God loves others. After he created man, he took him as his adopted son and placed him in heaven, carefree and happy. It also endows people with virtue and distinguishes good from evil by distinguishing right from wrong. As long as people do good and avoid evil according to virtue, they can live forever, and then their soul and body will ascend to heaven together. This is really a special gift from God, for the original grandparents and for their descendants.
It can be seen that after God created the original grandparents, they were good themselves, and their relationship with the creator God was close, and their relationship with other creatures was harmonious. According to the symbolic meaning of the original Bible and the Holy Biography, the church called the situation of Eden's grandparents holy and primitive justice. The grace of holiness and primitive justice is to make people share God's life, make people have a very close relationship with God, and make people not die or get sick. Harmony between people, harmony between husband and wife, and harmony between people and everything become the conditions of primitive justice.
From the beginning, God entrusted people with the power to manage the world. The newly created people are perfect people. They can control themselves, restrain their selfish desires and avoid evil spirits and greedy slavery. Because of the intimate relationship between man and God, God placed his original grandparents in the Garden of Eden to live, farm and take care of this paradise. Their labor is not a burden, but they cooperate with God to make tangible creation perfect. Unfortunately, they lost this privilege after committing the crime.
God let Eva get married.
In the second chapter of Genesis, it is said that Adam named all kinds of animals in heaven. Although he lived happily, he couldn't find an assistant commensurate with himself. Then the Lord God said, It is not good for a man to live alone, but I will make an assistant commensurate with him. When Adam was asleep, God took out one of his ribs, then made a woman and took him to Akon. Adam went on to say that this is really my own flesh and blood. She should call a woman, because men take it out. For this reason, a person should leave his parents and cling to his wife, and the two should become one. At that time, men and women were naked and not shy.
Shaping a woman with Adam's ribs means that women are as human as Adam and are made in the image of God. God brought Eva to Achen, and Adam called Eva his own flesh and blood, indicating that God let them get married and become husband and wife. They should love each other and be of one heart and one mind, and both husband and wife should bear the responsibility of educating their children. The combination of husband and wife shows that marriage is made by God and people cannot be separated. Catholicism does not allow divorce. This is the gene. The two grandfathers were naked and not shy, indicating that they were pure and innocent before committing crimes and had not experienced the consequences of their crimes.
The ancestors were deceived and betrayed the Lord.
God's love for people caused the devil's jealousy, so he tried to frame people, lead them to do evil, betray God, and lose God's favor. It knows that it is not easy to lead people to betray God directly, so it needs deception to lead people to fall for it. There are selfish tendencies lurking in human nature, and the devil uses these tendencies to attack people. According to the third chapter of Genesis, the devil said to the woman (Eva) in the shape of a snake, "Did God really say that you should not eat the fruit of any tree in heaven?" The woman said to the snake, "We can eat the fruit from all the trees in heaven;" Only the fruit of the tree in the middle of heaven, God said, we can't eat or touch it, lest we die. The snake said to the woman, "You will never die! Because God knows that the day you eat this fruit, your eyes will be opened, and you will know good and evil just like God. "A woman saw that the fruit trees and fruits were really beautiful and delicious, enviable, and could increase her wisdom, so she picked a fruit and ate it, and gave it to her man, who also ate it. Immediately their eyes were opened and they found themselves naked, so they hid themselves for fear of seeing the face of God.
This Bible is about how cunning the devil is and how insidious his tricks are. Obviously, it is the temptation to commit crimes, betray God and fall out of favor, but it is said that it is to seek happiness, increase wisdom and make people know good and evil like God. Under this temptation, people's desire for self-interest has greatly increased, and their reason has begun to be blinded by it. The so-called profit makes them dizzy. When she looked at the fruit on that tree again, it was really beautiful and delicious, and it could increase wisdom and make people know good and evil like God, which was enviable, but she didn't think calmly. Why should a created person be compared with the creator? Why are the words of snakes more credible than those of merciful God? Blinded by desire, reason fell into a coma, so it ignored God's word and regarded the devil's promise as a treasure, so it reached out and took off the forbidden fruit and ate it. At this point, their desires have passed, their minds are clear and their eyes are open. But what they see is not knowing good and evil like God, but seeing their nakedness, that is, losing God's favor and original purity. Their hearts are full of ugly crimes of arrogance and disobedience, and they have no face to see God again. At the same time, I feel that I have been cheated by a snake, which is extremely stupid. Unfortunately, it is too late to regret. This is the poor result of following the magic temptation. Today, the devil still deceives the world by the same means, which deserves our vigilance.
The tragic consequences of ancestral crime
God created man in his own image and established kinship with him. In order to live in God's love, people must obey God. This is the true meaning of God's forbidding people from eating the fruit of the tree of good and evil. Because people will die if they eat it. So knowing the tree of good and evil is a symbolic boundary for human beings. Since human beings are creatures, they should recognize this boundary and abide by it. Because human beings belong to the creator, they should abide by the laws of creation and the moral norms that restrict human freedom.
Under the temptation of the devil, man lost the heart of relying on the creator, and rebelled against God's command with freedom, committing the first crime. Every sin in the future will become resistance to God and loss of dependence on God's charity. Therefore, the ancestors were arrogant and despised God, that is, they chose to oppose God and the needs of the creatures themselves, and the result was to oppose their own needs. Man was originally created in the sacred field and appointed by God in the glory of sanctification. Now, under the temptation of the devil, people are willing to become God and put themselves above God. According to the instructions of the Bible, the ancestors immediately lost the favor of the original saints because of their sins. They were afraid of God because they were good at pretending to be God, causing God's righteous anger. Therefore, sin, harmony between man and god, and the favor of primitive justice have all been lost; The soul dominates the mental faculties of the body and is also destroyed; The singleness between men and women creates tension, and their communication becomes a selfish development opportunity; The harmony between creatures is destroyed and hostile to each other; In the end, people will return to the dust, because the human body comes from the dust, so death has entered human history.
After the original grandparents committed crimes, the whole world was filled with sin: Cain killed his younger brother Abel; After that, human beings were corrupted and destroyed by floods, and Wucheng was burned by fire. Israeli voters are disloyal to God, worship Taurus and don't obey the law of Moses. I don't know how many times, after the Lord Christ redeemed mankind, all kinds of sins appeared among Christians. These are the consequences of original sin, and everyone is dragged down by the sins of their ancestors. As the apostle of Sao Paulo wrote in his letter to the Romans, "One man rebelled and all men became sinners." (Wu Luo 19). He also said, "Just as sin enters the world through one person, death also enters the world through sin. In this way, death affects all people because all people have committed crimes. " (Wu Luo 12). Regarding the universality of sin and death, Sao Paulo put forward the universality of Christ's redemption. He said: "Just as all people are condemned for one person's deviant behavior, all people get justice and life because of one person's just behavior." (Wu Luo 18).
According to the teaching of St. Paul, the holy church often points out that people are in danger of losing their souls at birth because of the suffering of oppression and the evil tendency of the people. If all this has nothing to do with Adam's sin, it is really incomprehensible and unexplained. For this reason, the holy church baptized a baby who had never sinned to forgive him the original sin he inherited from his ancestors.
God's aftermath
According to the third chapter of Genesis, after the original grandparents committed a crime, they dared not face God and hid. God called Adam and said, "Adam! Where are you? " He promised, "I was scared when I heard your voice, because I was naked, so I hid." God said, "Who told you to be naked? Have you eaten the fruit that I forbid you to eat? " Adam said, "It was the woman you accompanied me who gave me the fruit from that tree and I ate it." Then God said to the woman, "Why did you do this?" The woman replied, "The snake lied to me and I ate it."
In fact, after the original grandparents committed a crime, they should have defected to God, sincerely repented and asked for forgiveness. But instead of doing so, they hid and refused to show up. According to justice, the ancestors were so ungrateful and betrayed God. God should punish them according to their sins and send them to hell. But instead of doing this, God took the initiative to find Adam, deal with the problem for him, help him solve it, and tell him that he was afraid to see God because he ate the forbidden fruit. At this time, Adam could have taken the opportunity to ask God for mercy in order to solve it. It's a pity that he didn't do this, but put the blame on his wife Eva. When God asked Eva, she didn't take the opportunity to ask God for mercy, but put the blame on the snake. It can be seen that grandparents were ungrateful to God, how to shirk their responsibilities, and lacked the sincerity to admit their mistakes. But how generous and kind God has shown. This is the loving heart of a loving father who helps his sinful children. Today, God still treats people like this, which is really worth remembering.
Allow the savior to atone for others.
In Genesis 3: 14, the Lord God said to the snake, "Since you have done this, you will be cursed among all the animals. You should crawl forward and eat dirt all your life. " . I will put hatred between you and this woman, between your descendants and her descendants. Her offspring will crush your head and you will hurt her heel. "
This record reminds us that after Eva put the blame on the snake, God didn't ask the snake anything and immediately punished it. Because God knows that the snake is the incarnation of the devil, he tricked his original grandparents into committing crimes and rebelling against the Lord, so as to destroy God's special love plan and prevent people from sharing God's eternal life. On the surface, the devil seems to have succeeded, but in fact he has completely failed, and all his efforts have been in vain. Because he didn't expect it, God immediately promised that God would become an adult from the descendants of the Virgin Mary, save mankind, restore the love relationship between God and people, make the devil's destruction plan go up in smoke, and promised that Christ the Savior and his church would defeat him forever. God said to the devil, "I will put hatred between you and this woman, between your descendants and her descendants." "Woman" refers to the Virgin Mary, and her descendants refer to Christ the Savior. Her descendants will crush your head, which means that Jesus saved all the plots of the devil and saved mankind. You want to hurt her heel, which shows that although the devil's evil plan has been defeated, he still won't give up and tries his best to deceive the world. However, whether people are deceived or not is still in people's hands: God has endowed people with the virtues of distinguishing right from wrong, distinguishing good from evil, and giving people the freedom to choose and decide. As long as people are careful, they will not be deceived, just like the Guangjin Party today. If you don't love money and ignore him, he will be helpless to you.
Ancestors disobeyed orders and were lenient.
After the original ancestors were deceived and betrayed the Lord, God immediately promised to save the Lord and save mankind and never deprive people of eternal life; However, the original grandparents who committed crimes have to be punished as a warning. The so-called capital crime can be avoided, but the living crime cannot escape.
In the third chapter of Genesis, section 16 records that God punished the former grandmother Eva and said, "I want to increase the pain of your pregnancy and give birth in pain; You should attach yourself to your husband and obey his jurisdiction. "Today, women will suffer some pains during pregnancy and childbirth, and this is their experience. Today's wife is weak in self-reliance and highly dependent on her husband in many things. This is the reason why God didn't give Eva such a constraint, but because Eva is self-reliant, she doesn't discuss things with her husband and makes her own decisions, which leads to disobedience and disobedience. To this end, God bound them to strengthen the cooperation and mutual relationship between husband and wife to prevent accidents.
In the third chapter of Genesis, section 17, it is recorded that God punished Adam and said:
Because you listened to your wife and ate the fruit I forbade you to eat, and for your sake, the land became a curse. You work hard to get food on your first birthday until you return to the earth, because you are from the earth. So God drove him out of the Garden of Eden and let him cultivate the land where he came from. Nowadays, husbands are busy with work and sweat profusely every day to earn food, clothes and support their families. This is how they come into being. God gave Adam this punishment, because he lived in heaven and idled around every day without any responsibility or opinion. He accepts whatever his wife puts forward at will, no matter whether it is reasonable or not, which leads to a catastrophe of disobedience and disobedience. This is due to laziness and irresponsibility. Because of this, God made him work hard, sweat all his life, and take on the responsibility of supporting his family, so he didn't have much time to commit crimes. This is of great benefit to people.
Original sin and future generations
What is the original sin? From the outside, it seems like a trivial matter that the original grandparents committed the crime of eating forbidden fruit. What is eating forbidden fruit? In fact, it is a very serious crime, because the purpose of eating forbidden fruit is fierce, that is, people should compare with God. Please think of a man who is made for God and needs God's protection everywhere. He doesn't love God hard, but he dares to be arrogant. Compared with God, this arrogant and ungrateful behavior is a great insult to God and a betrayal of God. In addition, God is their most trustworthy God and loving father, and his ban is to protect their happiness, which is the most worthy of their obedience. But suddenly a strange snake in the form of a devil came and told them a few lies. They believed it, but they didn't believe in God's kind prohibition. This is a great insult to God. These two major sins; Pride and disobedience are collectively called original sin, that is, the original grandparents' sin of betraying God.
Original sin and future generations: Original sin has brought very tragic consequences to future generations. People inherit the evil consequences of original sin at birth, so they can't get God's favor and share God's eternal life. Because the love relationship between God and people is a privilege granted by God for free, not a right that people deserve, and people have no right to ask God for this privilege. God gave people out of God's mercy, and God did not give people without losing justice. After the original grandparents committed crimes, they lost this privilege, and their descendants naturally have no right to enjoy this privilege again. The original ancestors became enemies of God, and their descendants naturally became descendants of enemies in the eyes of God.
In addition, Adam's sin can be passed on to his descendants and all mankind, because all mankind is integrated in Adam, and all people participate in Adam's sin, just as all people participate in the righteousness of Christ. From the revelation of God, Adam accepted the virtue and original justice after being created, not only for himself, but for the whole mankind. Adam and Eva obeyed the temptation of magic and disobeyed God's command. They committed crimes, but their crimes hurt the whole humanity. The humanity they passed on to future generations is spread in a degenerate state, without virtue and justice. Therefore, the original sin is called the crime of contamination, not the crime committed later, so the original sin is a state, not an act. Although the original sin is passed on to everyone, not everyone has committed this crime, but human nature lacks holiness and innate justice; However, human nature has not been completely corrupted, but has been damaged in its original natural ability, and is in a state of ignorance, pain, death, obedience to selfish desires and preference; However, God did not abandon man, the new Adam Savior Christ. But to save mankind from depravity and establish baptism sacrament, so as to eliminate the original sin inherited by man, endow him with the life of Christ's grace, make him a new man who turns to God, and overcome the weakness and criminal tendency of human nature with the help of Christ's grace.