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God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over
all the earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female
he created them."(Gn 1:26-27) All authority comes from the author of creation.
God could have retained dominion over the animals or bestowed it on the angels, or delegated
it one angel, or to the man and not to the woman.
The handing on of authority is the arbitrary act of the one who holds the power.
The man and woman were given permission to name and classify the animals, to fence them
off if certain animals were treading on their flowers, to foster the reproduction of some
species more than others.
Adam and Eve could make all decisions together or they could agree to take their authority
and divide it between themselves.
That power was now theirs.
But God had bigger plans for them.
He intended to give them dominion over their descendants.
But this was a much more important responsibility, so God would test them first to see if they
really desired this gift.
"You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil you shall not eat [Gn 2:16-17].
Self or Self-giving?
The dominion which God intended to grant the first parents was much greater than authority
over their children during the years when they would be too young to act responsibly.
During those early years, for their own protection, the children would need to be fenced in at
times like the animals, so God had already virtually granted that parental power when
he said "over the cattle, and over all the earth."
But the greater gift that God had in mind was a royal authority.
All children of future generations would be the descendants of the first couple.
In their naturally immortal condition they would be alive for succeeding generations
to exercise a unique role of primacy.
Adam was to be the father of many nations and Eve was to be the mother of the vast assembly.
Through Adam's guidance, each member would enjoy a distinct identity, and through Eve
each member would enjoy a sense of belonging to all the rest.
Even physiologically this is plainly expressed: the male seeds individuals, while the woman
receives each and all the children into her one same womb without discrimination.
These children would, in their turn, build up families of their own, unique and separate,
but not to be divided from one another, because they all descend from the one same couple
whose authority they would recognize.
Eve would reign at Adam's side, helping him make decisions for the benefit of all
with the insights of her particular feminine gifts.
Yahweh discerned the moment when Adam and Eve had reached the time for love.
"Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it [Gn 1:28], but there was added
a thought-provoking clause: "A man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his
wife, and they become one flesh" [Gn 2:24].
They pondered the matter.
No inordinate sexual lust or base animal instinct was precipitating them.
"To become one flesh" was not a case of mating, but a deliberate and radical choice
to transcend the pleasure of a relationship of friendship and move into a covenantal union
of self-emptying and other-receiving.
Yet, how can two persons become one flesh?
And when children are born from this union they would leave father and mother and have
children of their own and perhaps go their own way.
So it was easy to foresee that with child-bearing there emerges the possibility that the peace
of the garden could be disturbed.
Is this not the beginning of sorrow?
Yet somehow Yahweh envisioned unity.
"Be one flesh . . .fill the earth and subdue it."
How could Adam and Eve subordinate the earth in a peaceful unity unless the descendants
were of one mind and one heart?
Here the particular mission of Eve manifests its unique challenge.
God and Adam could provide external rules and even enforce them with physical means,
but, without a universal bond of union, the Pleasure Park would deteriorate into a multitude
of separate existences.
People could drift apart in time and distance, each small group living in its own "domain"
rather than under the dominion of one single couple.
A bond would be needed to transcend all individual persons, families and nations, and simultaneously
allow each person to remain a free and unique individual.
To be the Mother of all the Living is only a natural accomplishment of birthing children.
Yes, she can pass her DNA to the whole human race.
But to be the Mother of an Assembly would be a supernatural accomplishment.
This was in fact a spiritual task.
For Eve it was not merely a question of obedience to God and love for Adam, but of fulfilling
her feminine identity as helper and receiver of the man.
It was the moment for her to realize that God was asking something so great from her
that she could not accomplish it without his divine assistance.
And it is precisely at this moment of a critical decision, when God had spoken of becoming
one flesh, that the Genesis witness records in the very next verse that the serpent enters
the garden.
The tempter wants to speak, not to the man, but to Eve.
A mighty self-emptying love was being asked of her by God.
In St. John's mind, love was the primordial commandment.
"For this is the word which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one
another."
[1Jn 3:11] "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was
God" [Jn. 1:1].
The serpent tempts her to the antithesis of union.
If she would eat of the fruit of the "tree of good and evil" she and Adam would become
"as gods".
As person-god she would be autonomous, a universe unto herself.
Her children could eat of the same tree too.
They would all be gods.
What a wonderful bequest to their offspring!
She wouldn't have to feel responsible for them.
They could all fend for themselves.
Self-fulfillment, to be filled with herself, not with others.
That's what the First Lady wanted.
It was her free decision, made in full knowledge.
Adam realized that it would be an impossible task to keep their offspring united when he
saw that his own wife was not interested in co-ruling, preferring instead the path of
independence.
He could have let Eve go her own way, and ask God to take another rib and give him another
queen.
But Adam was also lacking in heroic sacrificial love, and quite in agreement with Eve about
listening to the serpent.
Couldn't God have appointed better leaders to be the "founding fathers" of the human
race?
We all fell when our heads of state sinned on that fateful day at the dawn of history.
And why didn't God let them stay there?
Why were we punished too by not being able to be born in paradise in that pristine state
of grace and peace?
Why did He banish them?
How many times have we felt frustrated with our elected officials?
They are supposed to represent the whole nation.
They are the heads acting on behalf of the body.
But they often harm the body by leading us into war, or economic hardship.
The body of the nation might complain, but the body is ultimately responsible for having
allowed those leaders to be elected, or to remain in office after their incompetence
was discovered.
In the end, the head really does represent the body.
As a child when I read the story of Adam and Eve, I was appalled at their ingratitude.
But as I advanced in years I learned that gratitude is not a common virtue.
Jesus once healed ten lepers, but only one in ten returned to thank him.
Is that the statistic for humanity, about ten percent counting their blessings, and
the other ninety percent feeling that they deserve more than what life has dished out?
Even if they had been given paradise on a platter, they would spurn all they have to
reach out for the golden apple of self-exultation.
God gave the human race the leaders that represented the majority of mankind.
He did it for our own good.
He let us be born in a state of independence, far from his provident support, where we can
experience the folly of imagining ourselves to be gods, and learning what it is to live
in a society where everyone puts self before the other.
Adam learned the good lesson.
In chapter ten, the Book of Wisdom comforts us by saying he repented.
Unfortunately, we don't hear anything about Eve.
But since they hadn't been confirmed in their authority, having spurned the royal
anointing, Adam and Eve had no authority to repent on behalf of the human race.
They could only repent as individuals.
Repentance or not, God's original plan was not destroyed by original sin.
The performance in the Garden was only a trial-run, a rehearsal with understudy actors.
The script would be re-performed.
There would be a new creation.
Mary was waiting in the wings and She would not just reject the serpent, but crush his
head.
We'll have to continue the story next week.
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