
What really happened at the garden? Another common story: Adam and Eve were created and placed in the Garden of Eden. The only command they are given was not to eat the fruit of one tree. Eve meets a serpent, and it convinces her to eat the fruit. This causes God to punish them, and banish them both, out from paradise, forever. In probably one of the most popular stories in history, we are again led by what we have always assumed. As in the previous Gap Theory of Creation, we are reading from verses which were originally written in Hebrew. The people who translated this part of Genesis, as well, probably were taught the same story you and I were. They probably used the corresponding English words in their translation which best fit their assumption of this story. As we look into the original Hebrew, however, as well as other related ancient texts, we may begin to see a whole different story. What if there was more to this whole story of "a fruit?" Could there have been some other parts left out? Often, there are obscure details of the Biblical narrative that were not explained, for whatever reason. There may just have been something so dramatic left out of this story that it almost isn't fathomable. First off, the serpent speaks. As a child, I always wondered why Eve wasn't more surprised that an animal decided to go and talk to her. Upon years of research, I think I found out why. The serpent, at least in the past, wasn't the same type of creature we know of today; it wasn't an animal, it was a humanoid person. Actually, there is a great deal of other evidence which suggests this serpent was, in reality, a serpentine, or serpent-like angel who had fallen from grace. As mentioned in the section Giants of Scripture, there were angels also fashioned around the creation of Adam. We get a hint to this in the Bible: "And again, when He (God) bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, He saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.". Hebrews 1:6 KJV When they discovered how much preferential treatment God had given the man Adam, they went and complained about him. We also get a hint to the conversation of these angels to God, in regards to their dissatisfaction of Adam: Psalms (KJV) 8:4 "What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 8:5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and has crowned him with glory and honor. 8:6 Thou madest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands..." At least two groups of angels may have been punished for their disobedience around the time of Adam, and cast down to earth (with Satan possibly also among them). Ancient written evidence shows there could have been more humans than just Adam and Eve on the earth at the time of his formation. They, as well as these fallen angels, were used in the tasks of working the fields of the garden, and domesticating the animals. We can see more of this in 'Birds' and 'Beasts'. There was a huge garden, along with creation, that God wanted a man to work and maintain. This, of course, was the Garden of Eden. Adam was created to keep and head the maintenance (Genesis 2:5, 7-8). One ancient source, The Book of the Cave of Treasures, stated that, "in it (the Garden of Eden) dwelt the souls of the righteous. The souls of sinners dwelt in a deep place, outside Eden." The fallen angels may have been placed outside the garden, and assigned various roles of leadership to the other human workers of the day. All of them, even the fallen angels, were under the authority of Adam. Since their fall, angels, complete with the same hands, feet, and an overall body as a man, were placed under subjection of the very same man they complained about. They were assigned to live on earth, just like men, with only a few differences. They may have maintained their over-all "shining" appearance, much like you would picture an angel to have. They, as well, maintained "serpent-like" facial features: high cheekbones, a different look to their eyes, etc. That was what some of the more powerful angels of the ancient world, traditionally, may have looked like. Satan, as mentioned before, could have also complained to God around the time as these other angels. Since Satan was composed of purely spirit, unlike the other angels who were fashioned of spirit and earthly elements, his fall may have been a little different. The other angels, closer to man in formation, were given the rest of the elements of the earth (such as flesh and blood), which allowed them to live and walk like a man. Satan, a heavenly angel, did not fall in this way. He had to find a body to possess, for example, to be able to act like other human beings. According to a variety of ancient sources, Satan convinced a serpentine-like angel of Eden to try and seduce Eve, and make her disobey the one and only rule they had: not to eat the forbidden fruit. This was to get out from under the control of Adam: "... (Satan) told the serpent, 'I hear that you are wiser (than all the other animals (i.e. people?))... for Adam gives food to all the animals, thus also to you. When then all the animals come to bow down before Adam... you also come to bow down. You were created before him... and you bow down before this little one! And why do you eat (food) inferior to Adam's and his spouse's and not the food of paradise? But come and harken to me so that we may have Adam expelled from the wall of paradise just as we are on the outside... Be a sheath for me and I will speak to the woman through your mouth a word by which we will trick them.'" The Book of Adam (44) 16.3a - 16.4 Satan was allowed to possess the serpent, to do his bidding. He could have also convinced the serpent to work with him to get one more thing: the promise of one of the richest and most luscious pieces of "fruit" in the garden: Eve herself. Satan knew the serpent was now flesh and blood, and had human thoughts and emotions. There may have been a curiosity about the sexual experience inside this humanoid along with anyone else. Satan, via the serpent, whispered his lies to Eve, and caused her to believe what he was saying. Even though she did not want to eat the fruit, the serpent, with his physical, human attributes, and charm, may have had something else in store for her. There may have been one more occurrence that took place along with his subtle words, another element of seduction was used to win over Eve - sexual seduction! As one ancient source stated, the serpent was inflamed by Eve: which means she was made red or embarrassed through sexual desire. The Bible also states the serpent beguiled Eve (Genesis 3:13). This word "beguile" is a term which simply means, in modern terminology, to be "screwed over", or wholly seduced. Did the serpent seduce Eve first, with literal, sexual beguilement, and then "screwed over" her world, by convincing her, in this passionate state, to eat the forbidden fruit? If this happened, as a result, the same sexual seduction used on Eve may have been used by Eve to seduce her man Adam. After they both succumbed to this temptation, and then ate the actual fruit of the forbidden Tree of Knowledge, the world became defiled. The fall began. This idea is not new. In fact, there is a lot of ancient evidence which supports the claim of fornication, as well as verbal seduction, inside the Garden of Eden. This may lead us to something more: just what was the name of this serpent, and what was the result of their fornication, if any? The answer to the first question seems to be the fallen angel named Azazel (or Nachash). This angel was thought to be a "winged serpent", which was also where the future images of a "fiery serpent" or "dragon" could have originated. Azazel, at one time, was "the strong one of God". Now, he was reduced to an ordinary overseer of an earthly garden. Azazel, incidentally, was described, "as being like a serpent in appearance, having hands and feet like a man, with... wings." What about their affair? Any result? There are a variety of sources, even the Bible, which may possibly point to an actual offspring of this sexual contact. In Genesis Three, some of God's punishments to Eve revolve around childbirth. This could be directly resulted to the act they just committed. The Bible states Adam and Eve were now ashamed, and rushed to cover their private parts with fig leaves (Genesis 3:7). Why cover them? Was it something that they did? For more on their possible offspring, see Cain, Seed of the Serpent. There is much more about this in my upcoming book, as well. 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