“To till the ground from whence he was taken.” (Genesis 3:23)
The word ground is used in various ways throughout the entire Bible. First, its Hebrew equivalent is adamah meaning soil, country, earth, ground, husbandry, land. This means that man was sent back to his original form without the Breath of God to search for himself. This is a difficult task because he cannot find the exact place from which he was brought out. The Lord said, “Ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged”. (Isaiah 51:1)
So it will be a fruitless search to look for self where he could not be found. Man forgot that the LORD is his life “….Christ, who is our life.” (Colossians 3:4) The implication of Christ being our life is that whenever we look for our life anywhere else we are doomed. A life of independence from God is dangerous. The nature of Adam was that he will not seek for help outside himself, which is a phenomenon that is prevalent amongst all nations made manifest in their search for self, by representing God wrongly in images of his own creation. This indicates that man has the impression that he has a Creator, but has lost the memory of His Likeness. It was this scenario the Israelites depicted in making a molten calf to show their gods who delivered them from Egypt (Ex 32:4).This outright disobedience to the Laws of God; “Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth…”(Exodus 20:3-4).
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