Was The Law First Given To Moses Or To Adam In The Garden Of Eden?

Most everyone believes that God gave the Law to Moses, at Mt. Sinai. However, this is not true. The Mt. Sinai incident was a reissuing of the Law, that was given in the Garden of Eden, to Adam and Eve. Is the Law plainly spelled out in the Book of Genesis, as it is in the rest of the Torah? No, but sometimes we need to open our eyes to what is happening and see what is implied. Over the next few posts, we will look at the Law and how it originally was intended.

First Mitzvah

Take Care Of The Earth

The First Mitzvah or Commandment, given to Adam, was to tend the garden. Genesis 2:15

"Yahweh, Elohim, took and placed Adam in an enclosed garden, Eden, to work to watch over."

Extraneously, this includes the commandment to man, to take care of the rest of the world. Even though mankind has done a poor to mediocre job at doing this, unknowingly, man has tended to God's creation, since the Garden.

Second and Third Mitzvah's

Remain Innocent / Perceive Disobedience and You Will Die

In Genesis 2:17, God tells Adam, to remain innocent. Don't even think about disobeying the simplest of commandments. Here, the Word for Word translation spells out an interesting tidbit, most don't get to see, in most English versions.

"Good/Evil Perception Tree, consume not. The day consumed, die, die."

What a lot of people don't know, that, in the beginning, Adam was given eternal life, for his soul and body. Man lost that due to his disobedience. Now, notice, that in the Hebrew, it says, Muth, Muth, translated here as Die, Die. Two deaths. This is an indication that Adam's body will begin to die, but his soul will die, also.

How does your soul, the eternal part of you, die? The way the Hebrew and Greek reads, in the Bible, absence from the presence of God will result in a slow deterioration of your eternal existence. That's what happens in sheol. But due to sheol being out of degradation of time/space, you will feel the effects of your soul dying, but it never will die, in the same way as your body does.

So, basically, Adam was told to remain innocent and enjoy the Garden of Eden, which means Pleasure, or his body will eventually die and his soul will feel the effects of sheol. Also notice, as you read Genesis, the further man got away from the time of Eden, his lifespans began to decrease. That's because of Adam and Eve's disobedience, by perceiving the difference between Good and Evil, they were not allowed access to the Tree of Life, the presence of God.

How do we get out of this predicament? Well, in the same way, death entered through one Adam, another type of Adam, our Messiah will bring us back to the Tree of Life. It's a free gift of Salvation. All we have to believe that God will redeem us, through the Messiah's sacrifice for our disobedience. Therefore, In the end, our Messiah will have fulfilled the first three Mitzvah for us and bring the earth back to it's original purpose, a place for us to dwell, maintain and commune with God, the purpose of the original Law.