Message For 16/06/14: The Crime of the Human Beings

                       The Crime of the Human Beings

We read that before they fell, Adam and Eve were both naked, and were not ashamed.^{19(Gen. 2:25)CEV|KJ|NI} After the Fall, however, they felt ashamed of their nakedness and sewed fig leaves together into aprons to cover their lower parts.^{20(Gen. 3:7)CEV|KJ|NI} If they had committed a crime by eating some actual fruit from a tree called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, then they certainly would have covered their hands or mouths instead. It is human nature to conceal one's faults. Thus, the act of covering their lower parts shows that these parts, and not their mouths, were the source of their shame. In Job 31:33 it is written, "If I have concealed my transgressions like Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom."^{21(Job 31:33) KJV} Adam concealed his lower parts after the Fall; this indicates that his blemish was in his lower parts. Adam and Eve's sexual parts were the source of their shame because they were the instruments of their sinful deed.
In the world before the human Fall, what act would one be willing to carry out even at the clear risk of one's life? It could be nothing else but the act of love. God's purpose of creation, described in the blessings "be fruitful and multiply,"^{22(Gen. 1:28)CEV|KJ|NI} can be achieved only through love. Accordingly, from the viewpoint of God's purpose of creation, love should be the most precious and sacred act. But because the sexual act was the very cause of the Fall, people often regard it with shame and even contempt. In conclusion, human beings fell through an act of illicit sexual intercourse.