Sunday, December 30, 2018



Where Adam and Eve self-aware?


Genesis 2:16-17, 
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” 
What was the effect of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil on Adam and Eve?
Genesis 3:8-10,
And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.”
It appears from Genesis 3:10 when Adam says to the Lord, “… I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself” that Adam and Eve gained self-awareness from receiving the knowledge of good and evil. Adam became aware that he was naked, and that there was now something wrong with being naked. He was also afraid, feeling fear or anxiety; frightened of God. Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause emotional pain or a threat. Adam became aware. He understood that he now perceived others as something separate from himself, hence self-awareness. Self-awareness involves being aware of different aspects of self-including traits, behaviors, and feelings. Essentially, it is a psychological state in which oneself becomes the focus of attention, hence his fear of God. He was now able to perceive the consequences of his action, hence cause and effect. Adam could understand just as we understand today. Adam understood that the effect caused by him was the result of, or a consequence of an action or other cause. Adam knew there was going to be a consequence of both their actions. 
Adam and Eve gained conscious knowledge of one's own character, feelings, motives, and desires. The self is an individual person as the object of his or her own reflective consciousness. I like the deep insight of Paul’s own perceptive acuity between the nature of man in contrast to the spirit. 
Ephesians 4:22-24, 
To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.


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