The story leading up to this event I'm going to extrapolate on, is that Adam makes Eve pregnant too early, and when funky things start happening
(morning sickness, swelling tummy etc) they decide to get some advise, but the delicate nature of the problem makes them reluctant to go to Jah, but
their quest is so important that the only sensible thing is to hook up with Lilith and her knowledge devise, the Etz ha-Daat AKA the «Tree of
Knowledge» — apparently an Apple gadget of some sort
maybe not. But we know travelling through space allows us to travel in time. Anyway. Story
goes that when Lilith has exposed the source of Eve's condition as pregnancy, the couple covers their genitals with fig leaves and hides in shame in
the garden behind some bushes, and the story goes that God finds them and curse the lot of them. And then:
And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them. Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like
one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” therefore the
LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden
he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.[ESV] Genesis 3:21-24
In other words;
«Get dressed for Frig's sake, here's some underwear («garments of skins» means underwear as in «clothes next to the
skin»)
and here have some clothes, and piss off already!»
Realising that Adam (not Eve, she was cursed, while ha-Adama or planet Mars was cursed in Adam's place) has become a god like himself in knowing good
and pleasant, and naturally all the wickedly bad, naughty stuff, God then sends the couple to Earth (עפר «Aper» lit. organic dirt, but it sounds
exactly like the Norwegian word for Apes which is just lovely I think, and quite true actually hehe) and he reveals that Earth was the place from
which Adam was once taken. Mars was a sandbox for developing new species, and now God had made a human god fit for ruling Earth with its apes and its
muck, and eventually develop the knowledge and technology needed in order to return to Mars (one of these days that is) and go beyond. So he sends
them upstream (back to Earth) to let Adam rise into divinity and eventually become a star traveller. God places «the two ancient Kerubim» («to the
East» is just one way of translating the given word, of old times or simply ancient is better when you realise that this is not about some garden,
but interplanetary space travel) angels or «the Kerubim of old» (Mars' two moons, Phobos (panic/fear) and Deimos (terror/dread)) and the «the sword
of intense heat and fire», and «the retrograde motion» (Strong's H-2015), «to guard or complicate the the way to the tree of life» — the Bomb,
or the weapon of intense heat and fire or perhaps an allusion to the apparent movement of the Sun across the sky— and the illusion of an apparent
and retrograde motion of Mars as Earth pass on the inside, to complicate the return to Mars and Man's ambition to create new lifeforms.
As you see, Genesis holds more than meets the eye in modern, foreign (in a biblical sense, English is a foreign language) and thus limited
translations into other languages. If Genesis is one thing only, then it is the Hebrew language, the Logos, and Hebrew is an extremely compact and
rather intrinsic language as such, with words having plenty different meanings depending on vocalisation, syntax, genus etc. There are different
doctrines for voicing Hebrew, but most of these systems of niqquds (vowel diacritics) are rather modern. Originally Genesis was written as one long
serpent of knowledge, without blank spaces between words, and no vowels (the apparent vowels in the Hebrew alefbet, like Alef and Ajin &c are mostly
gutturals and merely voiced consonants). Thus, a short sentence can be translated in a whole book, all based on doctrine and convention. Feel free not
to believe me, but refer to the Hebrew text, and avoid ad hominem deceit and bullying, and not just some poorly translated dogmatic English text. We
are not promoting or selling bibles here, we are trying to find the truth. And it's right there in front of our eyes. It is nearly impossible to
translate Hebrew without inventing a whole new language for the translation, or to transmute the given language completely as in expanding the lexicon
extensively and change the syntax, morphology, semantics and well, easiest thing is to read it in Hebrew and leave it with that.
PS: However, though, my Hebrew is limited to my library mostly, and in order to give this here expansion or interpretation, I have used two
interlinear bibles, a Strong's Exhaustive Concordance for its brilliant numbering system alone, then Gesenius and Brown-Driver-Briggs lexica, the
Biblica Hebraica Stuttgartensia and the Westminster Leningrad Codex, the ESV and a few other translations, and biblehub.com and their rendition of
different bible versions (ESV mostly, which I think is the best one out there in English, by far) and their interlinear, dictionaries and lexica and
an online Hebrew translation engine doitinhebrew.com. And then there is the weirdness of the Spirit of God and the even weirder intelligence and
consciousness that limits or opens depending on one's capacity. I am quite spirited, and quite intelligent, I have to admit that, some might say I am
too intelligent and spirited for my own good, but that doesn't make me better or worse, for so are many of you, intelligent, spirited, so please don't
simply toss in the KJV or something and your 70 IQ Southern Baptist preacher's BS («Bovine Crap» alt. Belief System, if you believe in the crap, for
it's all crap, no crap, no life) expecting people with twice or thrice that IQ to join in, then again, it wouldn't amaze me, for intelligence and
understanding are two completely different concepts altogether. But unless you have least have taken the effort to try and learn the language the
Booke is written in, i.e. that you have acquired at least some basic understanding of Hebrew, just walk on by, or ask questions and I'll try to
answer. Or even better, learn it, get your hands on some of the books I have used here or look em up on the net (most of them are out there), and use
your own brains and be creative, you'll learn quite a lot in one year, and in a year this thread is still here. Probably. Like I said, my Hebrew is
crap, but I manage to navigate through the texts as I would any text in any language using what linguistic skills and analytical engines and method I
have acquired, both at the university and from home studies and endless discussions and soon 20 years of extensive and critical bible and language
studies, as for my faith, this story sounds legit when opened up in light of our day, and rather logic, so, well, at least the first few chapters of
Genesis holds some rather remarkable notions evidently stuff they could hardly have acquired from imagination alone, I think Earth and our solar
system is a project and I do believe this God character is a star travelling scientist and quite the magician. In short: Read, ask, or better still,
do the research needed and contribute with an open mind.
edit on 26-5-2015 by Utnapisjtim because: misc