Genesis 3: 1 – 6: Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
The original sin is commonly thought of as Eve eating a forbidden apple offered to her by a talking snake; but as we so clearly learned from the prophet of God, the original sin of unbelief on the earth was not the eating of some forbidden fruit, but was an act of adultery between Eve and a beast called the Serpent. Here we shall look at how the scriptures make so plain that it was the act of adultery which caused the fall of man.
Our first scripture is that of Proverbs 30: 20: Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness. Eve committed adultery against her husband Adam when she ate or partook in a sexual act with another. The one in whom she engaged sexually with was a beast called the Serpent. The Serpent was the greatest of the animal kingdom, whose visage closely resembled that of a man, and whose seed had the ability to mix with that of the human race. It was after the Serpent had seduced Eve that he was cursed by God and transformed into a snake according to Genesis 3: 14: And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: God having destroyed the pattern of the Serpent by changing him into a slithering reptile is the reason why science cannot find the missing link between man and beast today.
The Serpent as a strong, handsome, and upright beast who closely resembled man was the perfect candidate for Satan to incarnate, and use to pollute the human race by mixing into it the physical and animalistic characteristics of the Serpent, and the spiritual characteristics of Satan. This is especially seen in Cain, who was the son born of Eve’s affair with the Serpent. The Bible says of Cain in 1 John 3: 12: Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. Adam was in no wise wicked, so Cain could only have come from the Serpent’s seed entering Eve. Furthermore, when we look at the life of Cain in scripture (Genesis 4: 3 – 9), he was nothing more than a religious, murdering liar; such traits Jesus attributed to Satan in John 8: 44: Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
The two spiritual trees that existed in the Garden of Eden were quite distinct from the natural botanic trees. A tree in the Bible represents a man or a supernatural being, as is so beautifully depicted in the example of a eunuch whose inability to procreate is likened to a dry tree (Isaiah 56: 3: Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.). The Tree of Life and Tree of Knowledge represent God and Satan. The Bible establishes quite clearly the fellowship that Adam and Eve enjoyed with the Tree of Life, for they would commune with God in the cool of the day each evening (Genesis 3: 8). If it was possible for them to commune with God, then it was especially possible for communication to occur between them and Satan. This forbidden communication Eve unwittingly had, by engaging in a conversation with the Serpent, whose lips were being used by the incarnate spirit of Satan.
The Serpent became the fleshly embodiment of the Tree of Knowledge because he was incarnated by Satan, for it is impossible for a woman to “eat” or have carnal knowledge with a spirit; thus Satan had to enter into a body of flesh and blood to achieve this. Later, in Genesis 3: 6, where Adam is said to have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge also, it is because he had sexual relations with his wife who had become “a” tree of knowledge, having learnt about sex and partaken of it in her being seduced by the Serpent. Two sons were born as a result of two sexual acts, between Eve and the Serpent, and then between Eve and Adam. The first son was Cain, born of the Serpent, and the second son was Abel, born of Adam. The scriptures show that Abel was a righteous man, whilst Cain was evil (Hebrews 11: 4; 1 John 3: 12); evidence to their having a parentage of different fathers.
In their fallen state, Adam and Eve covered their reproductive parts with fig leaves (Genesis 3: 7), for those parts of their bodies was where the expression of sin manifested. If Eve had eaten an apple, then she would have covered her mouth, and furthermore, when God gave the covenant of circumcision to Abraham (Genesis 17: 10), it did not involve the peeling of an apple, but the peeling of the foreskin of the male appendage that brought about the fall in the beginning.