Summary Of Donald Lawrence's Song 'Back To Eden'

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When I read Genesis 2 I am reminded of Donald Lawrence’s song called, Back to Eden. He sings about going back to live a life that’s full, beautiful, rich and plentiful. He calls everyone to go back to the Eden mindset and live on top of the world. I can see the rivers flowing through the land at ease with the trees and growth they produced. I can understand and appreciate the moment of birth of man and woman. The details of the breath and ribs has so many living parallels today.

I am reminded of the river and trees of my personal life. The flow of things growing and being produced. The allowing of the production of God’s order making everything go as planned. I’m also aware of the specific warning signs from …show more content…

The limits that God has given us through both hold our true happiness. (34, Towner) The created order has limits within our vocation that only help and not hinder. Towner expresses this reason by even pushing us to see why we are truly here. As a woman Towner views even my role of that of partnership and not division. It supports community instead of division. We steward, create and embrace together because we fit! (39-40, Towner) Both Arnold and Towner press the view of looking at the birth of how man and woman were formulated. Often this passage is abused and it was never meant to suppress women’s role on earth. Towner explains this our vocation and Arnold explains this calling as being the solution to earth’s problem. (58; 73, Arnold) Both presented this task to be for men and women.

The innocence of the first couple is the story of us all. The craftiness and cleverness that Arnold describes of the serpent is a view that I never allowed my mind to go towards. The wisdom of the serpent and the wisdom that he dangles towards Eve is not defective but obedience towards God is far superior. When wisdom is mixed with disobedience it opens the door for evil to abound. Although Eve was the first to take of the fruit and Adam the second, both shared responsibility in the transgression as Arnold describes it. (62;67, …show more content…

I believe that the Church’s message of the birth of man and woman has been viewed to put men in a position of authority over the woman than to explain the true partnership that God was trying to bring forth even in differences of roles. We have often used this passage as a divide of and it’s rarely used as addition to the kingdom.

God Created the World Good

In Terence's article he explains that the world that God has created was good and not perfect. He believes that it was no way that the creation would stay as it was created and it would mess up the divine design. Is that not perfection? Although I agree with the dominion by example module, in reading his clear depictive points within the article as perfection. Humans are not perfect but good. It’s a clear line where we stand in the order of God’s perfection and calculated moves. We ourselves are not perfect but can be good. It’s not the same with the Elohim and Yahweh.

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