“Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden.” (Genesis 3:23)
After the fall of man and the judgement which followed, the Lord furthermore sent or banished man from the paradise of God, His presence. This has a multiplier effect on the activities of man upon the face of the earth, his first homestead to which he was sent. It was a homecoming for man. It was a familiar ground of self governance, culture, tradition and religion. Man did not make any effort to repent or return to God, even when God made the move for reconciliation and redemption. Man wanted self-rule, independence, which formed the basis for his choice against God’s instruction. Despite the intelligence man possesses, and the engagement of the same to the study of himself, he failed to come to terms with who he actually is. Plato in frustration said but for the feathers man is no different from the birds. Socrates in refuting this proposition removed feathers from a bird and said, “Behold the man of Plato.” That is a man away from God, it does not matter from which nation: developed or developing, the same delusion and confusion is prevalent. The solution to man’s problems is not in his struggles to find himself, which he cannot. Man’s only way of escape is stated by God to all nations “For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel: in returning and rest shall ye be saved…” (Isaiah 30:15)
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