God warned Adam about eating the fruit. He loved him and knew the effects would be devastating. The fruit of the tree was not innocuous. It was poison for the mind.

Some will tell you the tree was just an arbitrary test of obedience and that because Adam failed God punished him with death.

It seems to me the events recounted in Genesis tell a different story.

 

Genesis 3:7 (ESV)
⁷ Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

 

Clothes for the first time became a necessity. Why? Because Adam felt the need to CONCEAL his private parts.

 

Before: no concealment necessary.

After: concealment was the first priority.

 

Before: Adam had no private parts – he was an open book to the entire Universe.

After: Adam had stuff to hide.

 

Adam began hiding HIS stuff. HIS stash. He suddenly saw everything in terms of what was his and what was not his and his first priority in life was to protect HIS stuff - his possessions.

He suddenly saw himself as separate from everything else. Within his newly altered mind there was Adam and there was everything else which was not Adam. Inside the clothing was Adam and outside the clothing was everything else. Clothing became the wall of Separation.

Separation is duality.

Adam AND not Adam.

 

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