Introduction
Eden
If we look closely at the creation story in the book of Genesis we see that we have been created at a level where we can participate in continuing creation - both in the world and within ourselves. In Genesis God gives people work to do, work that changes both the world (the Garden) and ourselves. The Garden contained a tree, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The fruit of that tree, from the Garden which they tended, changed them. There was another tree named in that Garden, the Tree of Life. Eating from that tree would have also changed them. What else would have been in that Garden which they were tending? What would they have become, tending a Garden that changed them in these ways, if they had never taken the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil? Ultimately, I think what they would have become was re-established through Christ. Christ re-established what we would have become in Eden. Now we become that differently. We become that through the finished work of Christ on the cross. In Eden we were created to participate in continuing creation. This implies that we have a purpose to our lives.
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