The Bible says in Genesis that Eve and Adam were tempted by a serpent to eat of the tree of knowledge and surely die. They did and thus mankind experience the fall. Tradition teaches through our various Christian denominations that Adam introduced sin into the world and that as Adam falls and men die, even so in Christ are all man made alive.
But we all know that evil/sin (?) already existed, because it was the serpent who tempted them. The Hebrew word for serpent is nachash and it means shining one.
1 Enoch teaches that the real sin of the world is brought about by the fallen angels (the nachash, the shining ones) and then those their children the nephilim. That the role Adam and Eve played in the garden was secondary to the others. Thus Adam and Eve are not the originators of sin, but rather the sad victim of allowing themselves to be deceived by a shining light, an illuminated one, but not The Illuminated One.
Reading the Silmarillion tonight we read how Melkor brought about his darkness and I suggested that Melkor seemed to be a fallen angel and that the story line follows that of the book of 1Enoch. Jonas (15) thought about things, and then said that Norse mythology seems to also follow that story line and that ragnorak was likely brought about by the same fallen angels.
❤️😍🎁❤️ I love these kinds of conversations!!! Connections!!! Ideas 💡!! Losing the rigidity of finite knowledge about the infinite.
Breathings 