Noah's Ark, Adam and Eve

Comment:

You asked about these two stories from Genesis, remarking that they didn't make any scientific sense. You're quite right, of course—they don't! But then, they were never intended to be scientifically accurate descriptions of actual events. They are stories—folktales—that attempt to describe universal spiritual truth in terms that can be easily understood.

The Adam and Eve story is actually the second of two very different versions of the Creation. The first is the seven-day Creation story, in which mankind is created on the first day and God is a distant, anonymous force. In the second, mankind is created on the sixth day, and God is a personalized being, not distant at all but intimately engaged in his Creation. Metaphysically, we understand the first story to describe the process through which God as Divine Mind creates divine ideas, and the second (Adam and Eve) story to describe how God as the Lord of our being, the divine energy seeking to express as and through each of us, is empowered to use those divine ideas to bring spiritual energy into manifestation through the creative power of our choices.

We don't always get it right, to put it mildly. We get confused by input from our senses and mortal minds, and we unintentionally create manifestations of duality and limitation instead. The story of Noah concerns what happens then. There is always a spark of the divine—a Noah—within us, no matter how profoundly we forget our spiritual identity and purpose. When necessary, the energy of the divine is able to dissolve the negative manifestations of error thought, washing away all consequences and allowing us to begin again. This isn't forced upon us—we have to build the ark to express our faith in the infinite Love that is God. And the process—the flood—can seem overwhelming and punishing. But it's really a wonderful gift—a chance to release negative consequences of old choices and begin a new creative process, anchored in our Oneness with the Divine.

Blessings!

Rev. Ed