What did they eat in the Garden Eden?

[TimothyH]

Favorite verse in the O.T. is Ps. 138:2- “I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.” In the N.T. its,though there are so many good ones, but I Corinthians 1:10 is what I really adore, and 2 Cor. 2:14. 1 Cor. 1:10 says- “Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.” 2 Cor. 2:14 says- “Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.”

I would like to invite you to join us upon the rock in unity.

We have a (tabernacle) light on for ya.

-Tim-

 

[grannymh]

Favorite verse in the O.T. is Ps. 138:2- “I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.” In the N.T. its,though there are so many good ones, but I Corinthians 1:10 is what I really adore, and 2 Cor. 2:14. 1 Cor. 1:10 says- “Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.” 2 Cor. 2:14 says- “Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.”

Psalm 138 brings me back to the Garden of Eden with God loving Adam and through Adam loving us. Verse 6 “The Lord is on high, but cares for the lowly” can also be seen as describing the relationship between God, the Creator and Adam the lowly creature – yet God cares for Adam and desires that all humanity remain in relationship with Himself.

In order for Adam, the creature, to remain in friendship with his Creator, he had to live in free submission to His Divine God. This meant choosing to be obedient to God.
For Adam, disobedience would consist of choosing his own human desires over God.
Adam wanted to be like God but not live in obedience to God. Adam preferred himself over and against God and against the requirements of his creaturely status and therefore against his own good. This is what shattered Adam’s relationship with God.

Perhaps one can look at the “fruit” as the temptation to be all-knowing like a god. We often say today that knowledge is power. Adam wanted the power of a god. But God said to Adam: “You are free to eat from any of the trees of the garden except the tree of knowledge of good and bad. From that tree you shall not eat; the moment you eat from it you are surely doomed to die.” Genesis 2: 16-17. Adam chose to go against God and thus his “friendship” with God died. And as a result, Adam’s human nature suffered the results of this chosen death.

St. Paul loved the Corinthians which is why he admonished them for their errors. Jesus had restored humanity’s relationship with divinity and St. Paul wanted the Corinthians to remain true to Jesus. He wanted them to triumph in Christ. In his letter to the Philippians, chapter 2, verses 1-11, St. Paul said that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend … and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Adam chose himself, the lesser good. We should learn from this fateful mistake to seek the greater good which is Jesus, True God and True Man.

 

[504Katrin]

I would doubt that all of the work in Eden was mental work. Certainly mental work is one example we have (naming all of the animals). But we are told that they could eat from all of the trees except one, so they likely had to at least gather their food, and prepare it. Why would you think Adam and Eve did not have to work in Eden?
Why would God have made men with physical bodies and without a physical purpose? Work, of all types, is an inherent part of human dignity. It won’t go away in paradise.

What mede me think this is that G0d said that from then on they had to work and “with the sweat of their brow” in order to have their food. Which means that physical work at least increased a lot, hence they had to sweat. But you have a point that they might have enjoyed work before the expulsion. And since He said that he would produce thorns for them and that they had to eat their food from the fields from then on, I assume that food was growing on the trees, without them having to work the ground. G0d must have known that they would eat from the tree and live East of Eden in the end.

 

[grannymh]

What mede me think this is that G0d said that from then on they had to work and “with the sweat of their brow” in order to have their food. Which means that physical work at least increased a lot, hence they had to sweat. But you have a point that they might have enjoyed work before the expulsion. And since He said that he would produce thorns for them and that they had to eat their food from the fields from then on, I assume that food was growing on the trees, without them having to work the ground. G0d must have known that they would eat from the tree and live East of Eden in the end.

Of course, Adam worked the garden. Please check out Genesis 2: 15.

Common sense says that Adam had a real human nature like ours which needs food to live. Our earth, where Adam lived, does not produce breakfast, lunch, and dinner without a bit of human work.

Source:* Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition*, paragraphs 355 and 343

 

[Robert_Sock]

I take it a bit more figuratively, with the ‘fruit’ being knowledge.

 

[grannymh]

I take it a bit more figuratively, with the ‘fruit’ being knowledge.

Apparently, there was real fruit of some kind because it was edible, according to Genesis 3: 1-6. Since Adam and Eve were human like you and me, they did need food to keep their bodies alive.

Genesis 3: 5 is the actual temptation to Adam which is for him to be like gods who know what is good and what is bad. The thing was that Adam, while in the image of God, was not equal to God. This meant that he had to live in free submission to God through his choice of obedience.

It is the name of the forbidden organic fruit tree which is symbolic of the insurmountable limits that Adam as creature must freely respect. Adam, as well as ourselves as creatures, would always be dependent on God. What the name of the tree suggests is that between the two extremes of good and evil is the power of all knowledge. There is nothing more to know beyond total good and there is nothing more to know beyond total evil. The temptation was to be like a powerful god, knowing all good and all evil and all in between.

Adam, tempted by Satan, freely let his trust in his Creator die in his heart. He chose himself and his desire to be like a god. Abusing his freedom, he disobeyed God’s command. He chose his “goal” against the requirements of his creaturely status and therefore against his own good. This was the Original Sin.

Sources: first three chapters of Genesis; paragraphs 396-409 of the* Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition.*

 

[Robert_Sock]

Apparently, there was real fruit of some kind because it was edible, according to Genesis 3: 1-6. Since Adam and Eve were human like you and me, they did need food to keep their bodies alive.

Genesis 3: 5 is the actual temptation to Adam which is for him to be like gods who know what is good and what is bad. The thing was that Adam, while in the image of God, was not equal to God. This meant that he had to live in free submission to God through his choice of obedience.

It is the name of the forbidden organic fruit tree which is symbolic of the insurmountable limits that Adam as creature must freely respect. Adam, as well as ourselves as creatures, would always be dependent on God. What the name of the tree suggests is that between the two extremes of good and evil is the power of all knowledge. There is nothing more to know beyond total good and there is nothing more to know beyond total evil. The temptation was to be like a powerful god, knowing all good and all evil and all in between.

Adam, tempted by Satan, freely let his trust in his Creator die in his heart. He chose himself and his desire to be like a god. Abusing his freedom, he disobeyed God’s command. He chose his “goal” against the requirements of his creaturely status and therefore against his own good. This was the Original Sin.

Sources: first three chapters of Genesis; paragraphs 396-409 of the* Catechism of the Catholic Church, Second Edition.*

Does the story of creation call Adam and Eve human until God clothed them in “garment of skin?” Before then they could have been spirits.

 

[tafan]

Does the story of creation call Adam and Eve human until God clothed them in “garment of skin?” Before then they could have been spirits.

Bad translation. And no, they were human, it says explicitly.

 

[irenaeuslyons]

Spirits don’t eat. Adam and Eve ate the fruit. This is partially why Jesus ate after His resurrection:

credobiblestudy.com/roman/en/catholic-bible-douay-rheims-nt-book-luke-lk-chapter-24/49/24/41

So as to show that he was really resurrected in the flesh and not a ghost.

The garment of skin signifies the first animal sacrifice. And it was performed by God to cover their sins.

Does the story of creation call Adam and Eve human until God clothed them in “garment of skin?” Before then they could have been spirits.

 

[Jimford]

In the dark ages bibles were burned and real bible believers wefe hunted down to be burned at the stake. True history says Rome started catholocism around the time of Constintine (350 A.D.) People can believe everything they are told by man,or they can believe God,and God alone, for their souls salvation.

 

[Nita]

In the dark ages bibles were burned and real bible believers wefe hunted down to be burned at the stake. True history says Rome started catholocism around the time of Constintine (350 A.D.) People can believe everything they are told by man,or they can believe God,and God alone, for their souls salvation.

newadvent.org/fathers/0109.htm
St. Ignatius was born around 50 AD and died somewhere between 98-117 AD.
From his Letter to the Smyrnaeans, Chapter 8Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude [of the people] also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.

 

[kkollwitz]

Strong’s Concordance defines Hebrew lechem as meaning bread or food in general depending on context. In Gen 1:29 I’d say it means food in general.