Sections

1. Creation of Adam

God created Adam and it wasn't until the Spirit of Life was "breathed in" did Adam become alive.  Before the "breath of life" was given by God, then the body was life-less. 

An important facet to recognize is God was required for a life's creation, where all life since the "breathed in", has been derived from God's Creations.  It is one proof of many against Evolution that it is impossible for inert dirt to be struck by lighting to create amino acids and proteins which then organize themselves into a living cell with a membrane, stomach, waste disposal, replication, food auguring methods and so much more.

Notice that Adam is a direct creation of God like the Angels where you and I are not direct creations.  Ultimately, we have the ability to become new creations when we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior.  At the Judgment Seat of Christ, we also will receive a new body, that is based on how we lived our life, along with the Grace of God.  The new body is a gift and a reward that is mentioned in 2 Corinthians 5:1-3 and 2 Peter 1:13-14.  Click here for an amazing list dealing with our new bodies (if link missing click here).

2. Covered in Light

In Genesis 1:26:27, we learn the God created Adam along with Eve after God's own "tselem", having a likeness to the glory of God's Luminescence known as Shekinah.   The phrase "in our likeness", is sometimes overlooked, which meant that there was a plurality in God, which we know as the Triune God of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, which is evident throughout the entire Old Testament.

When we read in Exodus 34:29-35, when Moses spoke with God, that afterwards the Israelites where afraid to be near to Moses because of God's glory on his face so Moses had to put a veil over his face to hide God's glory. 

Therefore, it is most likely that Adam and Eve, who were naked an unashamed Genesis 2:25, were covered with light because they were in the presence of God because God talked with them.   Biblical Scholars have stated that the speaking is similar to how God spoke with Job in a whirlwind.

In contrast, at the Judgment Seat of Christ, notice that we are clothed in White Garments so that we are not ashamed.  Those at the Great White Thrown of Judgment will be naked and ashamed.

The covering of light that was lost has so much more implications when seeing God's design and purposes:

3. Eve Created from Adam's Rib

In Genesis 2:18 and Genesis 2:21-23 we learn more about God giving Adam a wife Eve that was created from a rib of Adams.

The Hebrew word for "rib" is tsela which has the additional meaning of "side".  See other uses of tsela in Exodus 25, 27 and 35.  In 2 Samuel 16:13, David is facing a Shimei that is speaking profanities, throwing stones and moving along the side, tsela, of a hill.  The use in Genesis of God creating Eve from Adam's rib has the possibility of a deeper meaning which is stating that God created Eve from half of Adam by using his side rib.

We know from scripture that Jesus is described, amongst many other titles, as the second Adam which Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians.  Additionally, we learn about the prophecy in Isaiah that the Messiah would be pierced for our (the world's) transgressions.

4. Instructions to Adam, the Forbidden Tree

In Genesis 2:16-17, we learn about a tree that was in the Garden of Eden that was forbidden to eat fruit from it.  More on the tree is discussed later in this topic.

Notice it is not an apple and that God instructs Adam not to eat of it.  This "apple" quote started somewhere in the past and this author believes it is one of Lucifer methods to start doubt in the hearer of the Word of God that leads to disbelief.  By naming the fruit an apple then makes all people who eat apples think the Scriptures are full of errors because it is silly to not be able to eat an apple.  Unfortunately, the "the apple misinformation" is often even heard in Church Services.

5. The Eating of the Forbidden Fruit of the Forbidden Tree

When Eve first and the Adam secondly ate the fruit from the Forbidden Tree, there is a great deception going on against Eve, but not Adam.    Both Adam and Eve committed blasphemy against God, where despite the heinous sin, God's Great Love for Adam and Eve along with us had a method of future restitution.

1. The sin of eating the Forbidden Fruit is not the primary sin as the action committed is the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.  Their blasphemy is proof against many people incorrectly thinking that blasphemy causes loss of Salvation which it does not, but blasphemy absolutely causes losses in rewards in Heaven.
2. Despite this sin, God still LOVES THEM BOTH and no Biblical Scholar can state they lost their Salvation as God did not immediately end their lives, but instead gave judgment and a promise leading to justification to enter into Eternity with God.
3. The difference between what Adam and Eve did in their sin is absolutely different than the sin of Lucifer and the Fallen Angels!

There is also penalties that were distinct for them and all future men and women.

In the passages dealing with Lucifer talking to Eve, notice that Lucifer is using deception by first using a method to doubt God when Lucifer says "Did God really say..."  Next notice that Eve adds on "you must not touch it", which God never said.

An amplification of the penalties with additional insights of Genesis 3:16-19, that God gave Adam and Eve for eating the Forbidding Fruit which all of us inherit, this author has this additional theories:  

Women:

1. Very severe pain in childbearing and the birth,
2. The desire of being a ruler over the husband and actually all men, which is today's feminism,
3. Vulnerability to being emotionally manipulated and deceived more easily than men,
4. Emotionally driven to go against logic that leads to bad and sinful decisions, and
5. The preponderance of being negatively critical of having something that is God given and it is not enough.

Men:

1. The consequence of "cursed is the ground", meaning his work will not yield its full potential as read in Genesis 3:18, where specific sins will increase more in the loss.
   (a) Notice this is similar to Cain's judgment for murdering his brother Abel, but Cain's punishment was a great deal more punitive for Cain being a farmer along with being a vagrant and wanderer on the Earth as read in Genesis 4:9-16.  A few Biblical Scholars and this author believe Cain received Salvation by his repentance in Faith for believing and trusting God for his life's protection with the "mark" that was given to Cain which Cain did not reject. 
2. Being able to be manipulated by their wives when the man is supposed to be head of a marriage and a wife has her roles also.  A wife is not to usurp her husband's leadership.  (The exception would be of a husband violating his role as a leader and doing evil.)

Both Genders:

For both Genders, it is implied by scriptures for all of us because of inheriting the sin nature from Adam and Eve:

1. We will have weaknesses to fully understand many scriptures and God's direction in our lives because of our separation from God, where God was formerly there fully to protect and explain all things prior to eating the Forbidden Fruit that created the separation. 
2. The separation will be fully removed in Eternity with our new bodies after the Judgment Seat of Christ. 

A confirmation of our impairment is in one example in the mysterious and wonderful passages of the Book of Daniel Chapter 12 visions and information about the 1290 and 1335 Days.  Daniel 12:4 states the vision will be sealed, but the blessing in knowledge on the the specific of the passage and other passages shall be increasing before "the end".  Many Biblical Scholars and this author believe the period of "the end" is before the Tribulation Period when the knowledge of the Word of God "shall increase" in "the words", which is dealing with the Word of God.  See the topic on the 1290 and 1335 days for more on the fascinating and inspiring context.

There is still four more additional points:

Note: There are some recent modern-day incorrect conjectures that imply:

1. That Adam and Eve would not have known that eating the Forbidden Fruit was a sin against God because they would not have understood the implications because they were innocent.  This implies that negative connotative transference based on Genesis 3:6 where Eve would have had to ignore Genesis 2:16-17 where God informed Adam and Eve not to eat it. 
2. The deception for all of us in misunderstanding the scripture references is because of Genesis 3:6 where the question is why does
   (a) "the fruit of the tree was good for food", and
   (b) "desirable for gaining wisdom"
   where the correct interpretation is the deception by Lucifer in the possession of the snake.

6. Adam not Deceived and the Permanent Consequences for Men and Women

Notice that Eve ate the fruit first and then Adam ate it.  We do not know what was exactly was going through his mind, but the scriptures give us enough information to understand Adam's thoughts. 

There was a failure in Adam's part by not stopping Eve to listening to the Serpent possessed by Lucifer.  God told Adam in Genesis 3:17, "Because you listened to your wife" which also points to Adam making his decision based on what Eve said and not Lucifer.  Adam held the role of head of their relationship and did not stop the incident of listening to Lucifer from continuing.

The confirmation of Adam not being deceived is read in 1st Timothy 2:14, which states that Adam was not deceived, so why did he eat the fruit with Eve?

Note that the point is not to be disparaging against Eve or state that she was weaker to the serpent's influence than Adam.  We should ask ourselves four important questions:

1. Why would Adam eat of the fruit knowing he was doing wrong?  Adam followed her because he loved Eve!
2. Did Adam see Eve's covering of light disappear after she bit into the Forbidden Fruit?  Yes, Adam most likely did see the covering left Eve.  Eve also knew and felt the covering of light along with her former intrinsic 100% connection with God and Adam left her.
3. Did Adam see that she was naked before he ate the forbidden fruit?  Yes, which would analogous like anyone of seeing someone we love more than life have something happen to them which injured them.
4. Did Eve feel comforted that Adam joined her in eating the Forbidden Fruit so that she would be taken care of because Adam would be with her in her new state of life?  Yes, she most likely did where there is more to her thoughts that will be theorized in this topic section.

Jesus Christ did the same thing as Adam in a way we can only partially understand, where He so loved the world that He joined us in our predicament, to become sin and take the full wrath of God the Father, where His payment on the road to the cross and on the cross could save us.  Understanding this shows us that the scripture is teaching us that Adam was acting as a "Type of Christ" or "Model of Christ" in his actions, as a foreshadowing.  The scriptures are full of this type of modeling and types, which are a finger print of the Holy Spirit.

In the moment in history when Jesus Christ was on the Cross, God the Son was separated from God the Father and God the Holy Spirit because Jesus was taking our place in the penalty of our sins.  Notice in Matthew 27:46 that "My God" is said twice and the "forsaken me" shows the separation from the perfect unity of the Triune God, which was a pain we can never comprehend.  Forsaken in the context of the scripture verse means God the Father and God the Holy Spirit abandoned God the Son!

Furthermore, note that there are many examples throughout the Bible that men and women are acting as a model of Christ which we all should be aspiring.  There many great examples like Joseph in Egypt and how he modeled the future Christ.  Because of Adam's action, there was a future remedy made through the seed of the woman: 

Note that there is more on the "seed of the woman" to consider because it was through Mary's lineage that Jesus Christ had legal right and claim to the Kingship of Israel, and of course the entire Earth.  Women require the "seed" to come from the man, which was done through the Holy Spirit.  Both Mary and Mary's husband Joseph were part of the Royal Linage of Jesus Christ, but Joseph's part of the family genealogy had the curse of Jeconiah problem which is an incredible and amazing point on of how God circumvented the problems and fulfilling the prophecy of Genesis 3:15.

7. Jesus Christ is the Second and the Last Adam

8. An Additional Sin

1. They listened to Lucifer, who was speaking through the possession of the serpent, and heard the full deception.  At the moment that Lucifer started to speak words against God's Character, then Adam and Eve should have stopped listening and walked away.
2. They acted on the deception, when they ate the Forbidden Fruit.
3. Believing that God was withholding knowledge and not giving His Perfect Best to Adam and Eve. 

Most Christians are aware of the deception by Lucifer giving the thought that God was holding something back from Adam and Eve where if they ate the Forbidden Fruit, they would gain knowledge with the promise of "your eyes will be opened".  Adam and Eve proceeded with eating which showed they were not trusting and believing that God was giving them His Best.

Lucifer absolutely deceived and lied to Adam and Eve about the Forbidden Fruit.  Lucifer spoke correctly (a half-truth) about the consequence but the way Lucifer said it, had the interpretation to Eve in Genesis 3:5 to mean that God was holding back something, which is absolutely not true, a lie, along with evil.  (This author is not stating Lucifer was telling the truth, but describing the deception.)  Lucifer's lie had the connotation that something good would be gained in eating the Forbidden Fruit, but the truth was a curse and penalties would be gained.

9. Forbidden Tree, Why was It There?

10. Sound of God approaching

The verses of Genesis 3:8-10 are letting us know about the discovery of God approaching Adam and Eve show that God was showing the love of a father for his children.  God already knew that they had sinned and was giving them a chance to confess and repent.  God is also teaching them many important lessons and consequences on how He is handling this grievous action.

In an important correlation, notice the "cool of the day" and "thy voice in the garden" where the first phrase probably should be translated strong wind blowing.  It is similar to when God spoke to Job in the whirlwind in Job 38:1.

In the New Testament, Jesus Christ did the same approach with the Apostle Peter, John 21:15-19, which is after Peter had denied that he knew Jesus Christ in all four Gospels such as Matthew 26:69-75.  Jesus Christ renewed Peter's lost discipleship, which is similar to God approaching Adam and Eve.  Peter, Adam and Eve still loved God, but had sinned where God did the initiating to restore the relationship.

11. The Animal Skin Covering Required

When both Adam and Eve ate the fruit and were confronted by God as a Father who loves His Children, both Adam and Eve had sewed fig leaves together as loincloths.  What changed was the introduction of a Fallen Nature and they then realized they were naked without the covering of light.

When God made garments of skin for Adam and Eve, this was more than just to give them something better than fig leaves.  God could have given them many different things such as something made from the bark of a tree or some sort of current day cotton woven materials. 

By giving God giving them the coats of skin, which Biblical Scholars point to being animal skin and fur, it was teaching the requirements that by the shedding of blood there was a covering for sins.  A covering of animal skin, which required the death of an animal was a temporary action that points to the redeemer, Jesus Christ who's death was a permanent payment for sins.

12. Age of the Earth

This is a quick addendum type-of section of this topic, where more can be read in the Age of the Earth and Gap Theory topics. 

This author has not seen any commentaries speak about how long Adam first and then both Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, where often the connotation received from a Sunday Church Service or a Bible Study, is the time in the Garden of Eden was not that long because of Lucifer's involvement.  This cannot be so easily discerned, where the scriptures do not state how long.

It is important to know that Adam named all of the animals and creatures that God created, which this is not a trivial task   Naming of all of the animals could not have been easily completed in a short period of time.  Additionally, after Eve was created, then the time they spent together could have been a very long-time also in order for Adam and Eve to have the bond of love that the scriptures infer to have Adam join Eve in the predicament of the eating of the Forbidden Fruit. 

Adam and Eve could have been in the Garden of Eden for thousands, millions and even possibly billions of years.  There are possibly Christians who are reading this and may scoff at the possibility of millions or billions of years, whereas mentioned in the topic on the Gap Theory, God might have used millions to billions of years to show all of the Angels that Lucifer was not capable of fixing anything that was tainted and wrecked before God did a new creation in the existing Earth in Genesis.

13. So Many Beautiful Insights and Idioms

There are so many beautiful, thought provoking, liberating, inspiring verses here in the first few chapters of Genesis which almost jumps off of the page requiring examination where the writer had to restrain himself to stay on topic while writing.  As a suggestion, the possible next topics to read, besides those listed below, is possibly Noah's Ark that clears up one area of many of the difficult and inadequate Christian commentary subjects. 

What to read next?

Read about the Garden of Eden.  What is Salvation?  Is it possible to lose Salvation?  We have eternal life.  Evolution is not real.  When a Christian suffers is there benefits from it.  Rewards in heaven.  Do we Tithe?  What does the 3rd Commandment tell us?  What is Grace and Mercy?  Is there an Age of Accountability?  Is there a place of unending punishment and exile form God?