The metamorphoses that occurred to their bodies after the fall thus appear to be a change from their previous heavenly bodies to more corruptible earthly ones as a consequence of being cast from heaven to earth. If this is true, then the curses of Genesis 3:14-19 were, therefore, the result of Adam, the Serpent and Eve being cast from heaven to earth to experience these punishments in a world that had presumably already been this way for millennia. (Interestingly, this is not the only time this was said to have occurred in the Bible (Ezekiel 28).) At its heavenly level, Genesis 2-3 is a story about Adam being cast out of the Eden that is in heaven to Earth. Thus Genesis 2-3 tells a heavenly story with an earthly shadow. God also made a covenant with Noah (Genesis 9) and Abraham (Genesis 17) prior to the covenant He made with Moses.Īccording to Galatians 4:26, Hebrews 12:22 and Ezekiel 27-28, both Eden and the New Jerusalem are places in both heaven and earth. Here the writer of Hebrews calls the Old Covenant the “first” when mentioning the Law of Moses (Hebrews 9:1) despite the fact that the Law of Moses was not the first covenant God made with His people. Another example in which “first” does not refer to the first ever is in Hebrew 9:1. Though probably not the very first mortal human being ever, Adam is called the first man in 1 Corinthians 15:45 because he was the first man in the Hebrew family line at the creation of a then new heaven and earth. See The Earth is More than 6000 Years Old: How Young Earth Creationists have Misinterpreted the Bible. Whenever a city or kingdom was conquered by foreigners, the Bible often portrays this event as the destruction and creation of heaven and earth. Understanding the Garden of Eden and the Fall from an Old Earth Preterist Perspective : Summary and Highlights
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