#Book of Genesis

[whereserpentswalk]

Tolkien personally states that his elves were supposed to be what humanity would be like without original sin. However, in basically every version of the Abrahamic creation myth, wanting to wear clothing is a direct result of eating the fruit of knowledge. Meaning that for the worldbuilding, philosophy, and theology of Tolkien to make sense the elves would have to be naked unless they specifically had a reason not to be. However none of the works in the lotr cannon have properly portrayed elves this way. However, with the power of cgi, deaging technology, and labor rights violations, in an all new extended edition coming to Amazon Prime in 2025...

[charlesoberonn]

I want to clarify that this blog is not anti-public fruit trees. It is pro-serpent.

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Jacob and the Angel Artist: Gustave Moreau (French, 1826-1898) Date: between 1874 and 1878 Genre: religious art Movement: Symbolism Medium: oil on canvas Location: Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

[zu-is-here]

i hope this isn't blasphemy but imagine a Genesis!Dreammare AU? With Night being the one to eat the apple (Eve) and Dream following him (Adam)— maybe Nim could be the version of god?

The Fall

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

"I wouldn't have eaten the forbidden fruit" yes you would have. Why? Because you do it everyday. Because every character in the bible does it (with a few exceptions) over and over and over again. The narrative uses different ways of talking about it, "taking the fruit", "getting bit by the snake", etc but the real point is that your absolute failure to read the bible as a narrative, and instead to insist on historicity as your primary way of reading scripture, is the root issue here because it causes you to be blind to the actual message of the Bible.

[official--eve]

Introduction post!

My name is Eve. Yes, THE Eve, Garden of Eden and all that. I don't actually live in Eden anymore after... well you know the basics.

Anyway! A lot has happened with my family and I'm very excited to start this blog. Feel free to send asks. I'd love to talk with you. We are family after all!

(decided to make this list because I have the worst memory 😭)

My husband: @adam--official

My other husband? (Don't ask): @adam-offical

Poly partners: @lilith-offical @sappho-offical @eden-snake-offical @knights-templar-offical

My children: @cain-official @abel-official @giant-isopod-overlord @small-victorian-child-offical @holyspiritoffical @evil-bread-offical @polites-offical

(This is in no way meant to be offensive to any Christians out there, I've just seen so many gimmick blogs so I wanted to give that a try lol. I'm super interested in Eden but that doesn't mean I'm super educated on it so this is just for fun.)

My tags are evereblogs, evespeaks, familytalk, and evesocs

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Frederick Goodall RA (British, 1822-1904) Rachel and her flock, 'And behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep', ca.1874–75

[thyateira]

In the previous paragraph, I said that God was the beginning and end, Alpha and Omega. These pairs (not binaries) can unlock a beautiful vision in Genesis 1.

��Beginning and end’ is a pairing that represents the whole scope of history and time. ‘Alpha and Omega’ stretches from the first letter of the alphabet to the last, representing the whole alphabet in one swoop by referring to its extremities. ‘From head to toe’, ‘from top to bottom’, and ‘from cradle to grave’ all denote a spectrum through the use of pairs considered to be extremities of that spectrum. Take for example Genesis 1.1: God creates the ‘heaven and earth’, i.e. everything. Or even the phrase ‘there was evening and there was morning’, signifying the passing of a whole day.

Now return to Genesis 1.27: ‘male and female [God] created them’. Male and female. I think you can all see what I’m probably getting at here. The ‘and’ is not a binary ‘and’. Male and female can disclose a spectrum of varied gender identities in the same way that ‘Alpha and Omega’ discloses the whole alphabet, or how ‘from head to toe’ means the length of the whole body.

'Queer Creation: Queering the Image of God,' Alan Hooker (2013).

[artandthebible]

The Sacrifice of Isaac

Artist: Andrea del Sarto (Italian, 1486–1530)

Date: ca. 1527

Medium: Oil on wood

Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Description

In this dramatic test of faith from the Old Testament book of Genesis, Abraham agrees to slay his son Isaac on God’s command. As Abraham raises the knife, an angel suddenly appears to halt the sacrifice. This work gains its power from the complex expressions of father and son, combining grief, strength, resignation, fear, and realization in their faces and bodies, the latter inspired by ancient sculpture and Michelangelo. Andrea del Sarto never finished this painting, and it lays bare his working methods. He transferred the design to the panel from a drawing, reinforcing the chalk with painted lines - best seen in the donkey at the far right. He then worked over the whole panel at once with thin, brushy veils of color, letting him alter the composition while painting - especially evident in the angel, Isaac’s body, and Abraham’s head.

[shiurkoma]

*looking at his brothers

[adam--official]

HEY OLD MAN

DID YOU MARRY ANY OTHER WOMAN BEFOER EVE

RESPECT YER ELDERS ☝️

To answer your question! I didn't marry any other women before Eve since there were no women before Eve, so that was kind of off the table. I mean Jophiel was there and he looks like a woman but he's an angel so that doesn't really count.

Gabriel and i were definitely the equivalent of married at one point (since marriage wasn't invented until later) but turns out God sorta frowns upon human-angel relationships, so it didn't work out. The breakup was wild. Doomed yaoi, as the kids say. Trust me do NOT kiss an angel. No matter how hot they are. for everyone's sake. I'm so over him I swear

[thomastanker02]

Esau being tricked into selling his birthright for some stew mirrors our struggle with sin. We are tricked out of your own birthright (our treasures in Heaven), for something temporary, and we are despised as a result. Learn from Esau, obey the Lord ✝️❤️

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

The Deluge (1806) - Anne-Louis Girodet De Rossy-Trioson

[lionofchaeronea]

Abraham and the Three Angels, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, ca. 1770

[my-sacred-art-2]

Monica Bellucci (Italian, born September 20, 1964).

Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, 1627. Domenico Passignano (Italian, Florence, 1559 - 1638).

Minneapolis Institute of Art.