Bible Study, Part 3

Creation of Light (אוֹר)
By Gustave Doré

Genesis, Chapter 3 |
Sunday – July 5, 2026

This will be the third part of this "Bible Study series"; I recommend that you read the first two parts—which you can find here (1) and here (2)—of this series before you proceed to read this part (3). Of course, you are free to choose to do whatever you want, and if you have already chosen thou pilot Yahweh (God), then you are blessed and should allow him to guide you, read "Proof of the Name of Yahweh".

    Now, I do not have nor do I tend to apply any hard rules when it comes to the efficacy of each of these posts, as I have stated in the previous parts in this series, but from now on I have made it a soft rule that I will attempt to post a part of this series before every Sunday, before the 7th day of the week, and unless, and because of mostly unforeseen reasons, I should find myself unable to post a part to this series then I will make this clear, which is why I have decided upon a second rule, namely: if I fail to post a part covering at least one chapter of the Bible, I will allow myself to post a part of this series covering at least two chapters of the Bible. Again, I ask all of my readers to bear with me as this is a new series and as I am in the midst of committing to reading the Bible anew. Also, it should be understood—something that I clarified in my previous posts in this series and something that I find myself compelled to continue to clarify—I do not engage in Biblical fundamentalism: that is to say I do not believe that the revealed and sacred scriptures that is the Bible are open for unqualified interpretation, read "Qualification", by people motivated by confusion and self-interest, and I will always reserve the right to defer to scholars, most of whom shall remain unnamed, and if you wonder why I regard the anonymity of these scholars important you should read this post.

    Also and again, due to the inevitable limitations brought by the language barriers inherent in this study you must always deter to the word of the Bible, not my word/s, and this is why I recommend anyone reading this series to also rely on the same published version of the Bible as I am, namely the Catholic New Revised Standard (NRSV-CE); if you decide to rely on another published version of the Bible, then you are responsible for keeping track of every word of each chapter and of each verse. Subtle the differences between one published version of the Bible and another published version of the Bible may be, but these differences tend to add up over time and since the Bible is a dense book these problem, annoying though they are, tend to multiply over time and to the point where the word of Yahweh (God) tends to become skewed in one or the other direction and this phenomena also tends to open the floodgates for further discourse, really it tends to create politics where politics does not belong, read "Hierarchy". Again, something that also bears being repeated: if you are not happy with the conclusion drawn in this Bible study, then you have two options: either you leave a comment below each part of this series where you make your complaints known, and I may or may not respond; or you simply leave me and this Bible study alone and go somewhere else, because this page is generally not open for free inquiry, open discourse, and sensational and hysterical speculation. Also, I will not accept any complaints written in the form of long letters, as I do not have time to deal with this; if you wish to complain you should write your concerns below the post that you wish to complain about. Lastly, I will continue to refer to God as Yahweh (יהוה), as this study concerns itself with the Old Testament and the covenant between Yahweh (God) and the Nation of Israel, to borrow that neologism "nation", and if you want to know why then I suggest that you read my post "Yahweh Elohim" linked to above; it is my conviction and the case made by many scholars that it would be more accurate to refer to God in the English colloquialism as Yahweh when one is concerned with the Old Testament, but the same prudence may not apply to the New Testament. As I stated in my previous post: if I change anything in the scriptures that I quote, usually the change will concern the word of Yahweh (God), I shall indicate this with brackets, [text]; if I fail to add certain verses in the interest of saving time and space before or after some quotation that I do quote, I will generally indicate this with brackets containing three dots, [...].

    Genesis 3:1 – 8: "Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that [Yahweh] had made. He said to the woman, 'Did [Yahweh] say, ‘You shall not eat from any tree in the garden’?' The woman said to the serpent, 'We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; but [Yahweh] said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it, or you shall die.’' But the serpent said to the woman, 'You will not die; for [Yahweh] knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like [Yahweh], knowing good and evil.' So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves. [...]",. This passage is very much profound and points us to the original sin, in accordance with Christian theology – eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge. With knowledge comes awareness and pain, pain and awareness being seemingly something intertwined in a cosmic truth, and of course it should be the serpent who delivers the great delusion of knowledge to the woman and then the woman to her husband, something that indicates an altered and inverted hierarchy, for both the serpent and womankind are renowned for being manipulative, the woman less so than the serpent and the serpent more so than the woman because the serpent is a ground dwelling creature, something that God has ordained, Genesis 3:14, and as any ground dwelling creature goes, so must its knowledge of the world go, that is to say knowledge of the lowest and most material kind. Of course, this kind of knowledge is merely corporeal knowledge, an immediate and painful knowing about the world and the human condition, a kind of painful awareness that bounds man to know about the world that he is later sent down into, something that truly imprisons him in his own condition and something that he will seek to find a remedy for in vain, read "Transhumanism". Of course, by gaining corporeal awareness the separation between man and the animal kingdom was complete, something that has already been referred to earlier in this series, for no kind in the animal order may pity their own fragility or seek remedy for their condition. Thus the transfiguration necessitating mortality was also completed, read "The Primordial Body"; and this is all indicated by the knowing of good and of evil, another part of the overriding leitmotif inherent in Genesis, namely that of the light and of its necessary shadow, of day and of night, of the beginning and of the end, of cyclical revolutions, for with knowledge of the world, of good and of evil, temptation became a permanent fixture on the mental horizon of man, temptation and confusion, manipulation and deceit. So you see, everything in the world emerged out of this moment, out of this original sin, and everything that keeps man's attention away from the supra-human order can trace its origins to this act, the genealogy of deceit.

    Genesis 3:8 – 19: "They heard the sound of [Yahweh] walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of [Yahweh] among the trees of the garden. But [Yahweh] called to the man, and said to him, 'Where are you?' He said, 'I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.' He said, 'Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?' The man said, 'The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.' Then [Yahweh] said to the woman, 'What is this that you have done?' The woman said, 'The serpent tricked me, and I ate.' [...]". Again, here we may be prudent in reiterating what was previously stated: that with knowledge of all things corporeal and of all things immediate comes great pain and confusion and the beginnings of manipulation, the dawn of politics and of schism, which the serpent shall symbolize both in corporeal form and in idea. Yahweh has ordained this original schism:

"I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel." — Genesis 3:15.

    Genesis 3:19 – 24: "[...] Then [Yahweh] said, “See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”— therefore [Yahweh] sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a sword flaming and turning to guard the way to the tree of life.". Verily, and Adam was sent out of the garden of Eden and now the heaven and the Earth was forever divided, which the Earth represents, and Earth became the habitat of man, truly a barren landscape, and now man must be guided by the righteous will while he must continue to remain ever vigilant in the face of the evil and the corruption all around him, and this is why the purity of virgin should stand to represent the utopia of the garden of Eden, something that men will continue to look for, though in vain for no such thing will ever be possible on Earth and during the current circumstances. Really, everything can be explained by Genesis, and in particular this last passage of Genesis, verses 19 through 24. You must know that you have no hope for relief in this life, in this condition:

"By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return." — Genesis 3:19.

Or at least this was the divine law of the original tribes, of the Jews, and this truth is no less communicated by this Christian Bible. Indeed, every man on the face of the planet must die, he must be overcome by the shadow realm, for this is his fate and the fate of every man that came before him and will be that of every man that shall follow him. No such thing as utopia, human-rights, or liberal dogma will ever release man from this ordained obligation – for only the supra-human order may reveal this universal truth in the unity of the original source.

Reginald Drax (AKA, M. C. Dutt) – July 5, 2026.