Go ahead and google “Adam and Eve“. I give you permission to check it out before you come back here.
Do you notice anything about the results that are pulled up. Almost every single image that’s returned is of the temptation, the fall, or the expulsion. Why is this so?
It’s interesting that when we think of this seminal moment in God’s creation, the creation of the human race as man and woman that our minds and paintbrushes apparently go straight to the fall.
At first, I wasn’t that excited about the image on the right. It’s not very modern. There’s nothing in it that necessarily grabs a person right away. But as I was thinking about it, I began to like it more. There’s an innocence attached to this image, both in content and in style. Things are whole and wholesome. As they were meant to be.
When God created Adam and Eve this was his desire. To create an environment where things were innocent, not in a foolish “golly gee” way, but in a way where people followed God’s will and were in line with the design. Part of that desire was man and woman to meet. To care for each other and for the creation.
Think about it- what would a creation look like where sin had not entered, where people saw God’s will as good and went back to his designs. What would the relationship between man and woman look like?
