From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!tektronix!tekmdp!dadla!dadla-b!hutch
Newsgroups: net.religion
Title: Re: Paradise was Hell
Article-I.D.: dadla-b.430
Posted: Thu Apr 21 18:06:42 1983
Received: Mon Apr 25 01:59:46 1983
References: uw-june.374

David made a good point with his article, that we know relatively little
about what went on in Paradise.  As you would expect, I sort of disagree
with his assertion that it was an empty period.  At least some of the
role of Adam was that he was to name things, a mystical concept as well
as a linguistic one.  There are other Hebrew traditions about what Adam
did before the fall, as well as what Eve did.  (Perhaps if we promised
not to be too rude, someone who knows more about this could tell us what
some of the traditions are?)

Anyway, it was implied in the Fall that Adam was no longer fit for the work
which he was origianlly set for, and that the burdens of his life after the
fall might in fact have been those things which he was to do, before he fell,
now made onerous and unpleasant.

Hutch