title: Adam and Eve
author: Swenson, Denis
description: The Book of Genesis describes the birth of the world and how God created Adam and Eve - but the portrayal of life in the Garden of Eden and the events that followed is short on detail... What if we could hear the story in Adam's own words? To know what it felt like to become conscious as God breathed his spirit into lifeless clay, to understand the wonder that Adam felt as God taught him about the world and how to live in it, to feel what it was like to be so blessed as to walk in the Garden of Eden at God's side? We could feel his joy when God created the beautiful, golden haired and sapphire-eyed Eve and joined them in Holy Matrimony. We could wonder as God’s radiance lit up that sacred morning and ten thousand angels sang the most beautiful songs of joy ever heard. Although God had taught Adam many things - both spiritual and practical - like how to talk to Him in prayer, what fruits are good to eat, and how to make fire and to fish, Adam had figured out quite a few on his own, like how to grow the best grapes and name the friendly animals. However, it was through the wisdom of his helpmeet Eve that he learned - amongst many things - that it was easier to prune a vine with a sharp flint than with a reluctant billy goat! Eve was warm, wise and witty, so it was all the more terrible when her inquisitive mind led her to listen to the serpent as he tempted her to sin. We share Adam and Eve's pain as they were cast out of the Garden and God appeared to vanish from their lives: God simply disappeared, no puff of smoke, no fading away, no ascending out of sight. He was there, and then He wasn’t.” They have to learn to survive and thrive despite the hardship and pain of mortal life in the wilderness, and now have to earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brows. But all is not suffering: Eve had been given the gift of the miracle of creation too, so we can rejoice with them as their children and their children's children begin to populate the world and to discover its joys and riches. And Adam and Eve find that God had not really deserted them, they can still talk to him through prayer. Despite the hardships of the early years, the cold winters and the dangerous animals that threatened them, their ability to talk to God gives them strength and courage. When, consumed by a jealous rage, their son Cain killed his brother Abel, Adam and Eve gave us a lasting lesson in forbearance and forgiveness and faith in God's wisdom. All they desired was a life of peace and plenty for their descendents, a task achieved when Adam's work culminated in the founding of his great city between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers. All they desired was a life of peace and plenty for their descendents, a task achieved when Adam's work culminated in the founding of his great city between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers. What if Adam and Eve had shared their stories all those years ago and those stories had been written down, right then and there? This is the first book in The Adam Scrolls - a precious, secret parchment record passed from generation to generation that survived the Great Flood, and escaped the sun-worshipping pagan priests who sought to destroy them. They reveal God's close relationship with our earliest ancestors and make clear that there is one Living God who loves us all.