Adam and Eve were completely blissful and needed nothing but each other’s company. This, to me, sticks out like one of those instances of love where nothing matters but the two of you. He kicked the two of them out of the garden and gave Eve the pleasure of enduring childbirth, told her she was going to be ruled over by her husband and He told Adam that he will forever be self-conscious and fear judgement due to his want to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Almost immediately afterwards, the two of them became incredibly self-conscious about the whole nakedness thing and threw together some fig leaf garments to cover their modesty. Being a good wife, she offered some of her spoils to her husband who gobbled it down. That is, until the serpent talked Eve into eating the forbidden fruit. The two of them jollied around the Garden of Eden completely starkers, not fearing any judgement. To make his new friend happy, God put Adam under an early general anaesthetic and performed emergency surgery – extracting a rib, and creating, from that rib, a woman. Not feeling on the same level as the other prospective companions that God had conjured up (birds and livestock aren’t great conversationalists), Adam was in need of a woman. Read the story in Genesis 2–4 now What happens? Adam and Eve – The Original Biblical Romance This list is also available as an image to download.
We love seeing how people respond to Scripture for the first time – so for Valentine's Day we asked Lucas Howe, a recent graduate who’d never read the Bible before, to look at some famous biblical romances and give us his first impressions of the stories.
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