Open AccessHE FALL FROM THE EDENIC STATE OR THE EPOS OF AN UNFILLED LONGING
Author(s) -
Adrian D. COVAN
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
icoana credinţei
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2501-3386
pISSN - 2393-137X
DOI - 10.26520/icoana.2021.14.7.5-12
Subject(s) - contemplation , heaven , happiness , humanity , philosophy , state (computer science) , garden of eden , aesthetics , art , fall of man , literature , art history , theology , psychology , law , social psychology , algorithm , politics , computer science , political science
We learn from the texts of the Holy Scriptures and contemplations of the Holy Fathers that man was created in the image and likeness of God adorned with virtues. Resting in the Garden of Eden, the man's mind was set on contemplation of God, abounding in divine images. Dominated by the spirit, man was living in a particular state of joy and happiness. God shared him from His state of goodness, endowing him with all the spiritual and material sweetness. Man's fall into sin was a consequence of eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, tempted by the cunning devil disguised in primordial snake. The expel of Adam from heaven identifies with the process of humanity restoration the heavenly Father started at the gates of the biblical garden, promising to the first inhabitants of the earth to help them find the way back to their lost home, by sending in this world the Redeemer.