In the picture
from Albrecht Dürer called “Adam and
Eve” you can see two people in the Garden of Eden. In this picture Adam and Eve are still
innocent and don’t recognize they are naked.
Between them the snake appears and tempts Eve with the fruit of
knowledge of good and evil. Eve holds
the fruit behind her back, and it looks like Adam is going to eat the fruit.
What is the meaning of the picture?
In the picture the snake resembles
Satan who brings evil into the perfect world and causes Adam and Eve to
sin. There are three factors that lead
us to sin: the world, Satan, and our flesh.
The fact that the snake was in the Garden of Eden means the snake was
created. Rebelling against Gods Word
Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit and has the knowledge of good and evil. By
doing this it was an act of willful disobedience. Wanting to have equal or greater wisdom than
God was an act of moral autonomy. After the fall of man there are broken
relationships, first between man and women.
Man and women become competitive.
Second there is also a broken relationship between man and creation for
example man has to work the land. Third
the relationship between Man and God is strained. Intimacy is destroyed and
innocence is replaced by shame. After
the fall Adam and Eve had to leave the Garden of Eden and they are now
spiritually dead.
What does this mean today?
Our selfishness causes us to fall into
temptation just as Adam and Eve wanted to be greater than God. Our world is no
longer perfect and bad things happen daily for example accidents, death and
sickness. Men and women fight about who should be in charge, for example in the
work field many women feel there is favoritism towards men. God and man have a
strained relationship, as it is hard to have a personal relationship with Him
because we can no longer hear Him or understand his plans for us.
Commentary:
http://www.studylight.org/commentaries/guz/view.cgi?bk=0&ch=3
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