Jewells of Thought

Reading through this book has been… quite mesmerizing for me. I have these residual emotions after each book that highlights a woman from the bible. This however, seems different because she produced the first humans who roamed the world after God created her and Adam from the dirt.

God was in each and every detail of His creation. Truly magnificent in every way. The account in Genesis has been expounded on for thousands of generations now. Our first parents gave way to one sin yet they both bear equal responsibility for that sin. No matter how liberals or men versus women want to say that one was more or so to blame it doesn’t matter that it’s no longer the focal point of the narrative to this chapter in the garden of Eden. What it does show is how it takes one action to cause the ripples in a whole generation or generations of a family.

Which then brings us to Cain and Abel. They both had their strengths, but were opposite of each other. In these few short chapters of Genesis hundreds of years took place Abel had went straight from death to being with God while Cain lived a cursed life for his actions and led his children and children’s children down the wrong path against God their creator.

I am amazed at how in depth Jill Eileen Smith went for such a short and brief time written about in the bible. Moses wrote the first five books of the Old Testament there are certain details that were certain for these passages and then there are so many other things we would think important not mentioned in this scripture. Yet Smith found 40 chapters worth of information to share with us in this book. As a historian I am thankful for every detail I have that means something even the fact that Enoch did not die. Or the fact that these first humans lived for hundreds of years something that seems jaw dropping to our modern era’s time of the 21st century.

Every human and animal in this world was created by God and has a beautiful design and purpose. Why is that because God has said so over and over in His word. It was such a wonderful opportunity to challenge my own thoughts on this well known bible story and pick at it with this new lens of refined details that I had never truly given thought to before.

I may be part of a couple, but I am still not legally married as of yet. However, there were some early moments in the first few chapters I found myself nearly in tears thinking of how Bryan and I just had some kind of similar conversation as to the one Smith had them saying among a few of these earlier chapters. It was very surreal and brought their story as a couple to light in a different variance that I still can’t fully comprehend and yet in some way I do grasp on some level. It truly feels like experiencing what maybe could have been emotionally going on between them.

Do you think they both blamed themselves for their sin and therefore rejection from Eden? Or do you think they blamed the other one? It’s apparent Smith believes Eve felt the brunt of her actions the most for the rest of her life. Yet Cain’s act of sin took its toll on Adam? Do you think this could be accurate?