The Garden of Eden
The Garden of Eden is a biblical location where mankind was born. God created Adam and Eve and left them in this beautiful paradise. Adam and Eve lived peacefully here with the flora and fauna around them. It is in this location that Eve and Adam betrayed God by eating from the one tree in the garden they were forbidden to pick fruit from; Eve was deceived by a serpent who tempted her into disobeying God. She shared the fruit with Adam and as they both ate the fruit God returned, disappointed and upset with them.
The Garden of Eden was a serendipitous place where all lived in harmony, without the harnesses of shame, embarrassment, pain, sickness, fear, or death. When God returns Adam and Eve make it clear they have betrayed him– they’re embarrassed to be naked, something that formerly hadn’t occurred to them. Since he was betrayed, God casts them out of the garden, and makes it man’s job to work the soil, and makes childbirth painful for women. The symbolic harmony within the Garden of Eden was lost when man betrayed God, and humans no longer live in paradise. This story can be compared to that of Pandora’s Box in Greek mythology. Both stories document reasoning for why there is negativity and evil in the world.
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