Introduction
In the days when Christianity was failing to offer consolation and answers to my personal dilemmas, I was compelled to come to God one day and ask Him to deliver me of my confusions, of my personal griefs by explaining to me the truth FROM HIS POINT OF VIEW. I made a deal with Him so-to-speak. I decided to “throw away the baby with the bathwater”. I committed to come to Him and to His word with no preconceived ideas. Everything that I had learned in the past, I placed “on a shelf”. I came to Him as a “blank sheet of paper upon which He could write anew”. I needed to do this because I was getting nowhere within the Church.
So I went back to the very beginning of the Bible. John appeared to be giving clues here and there to that effect. I then proceeded to read the entire Bible from beginning to end. Whenever I felt moved or inspired to note a scripture portion relevant to my dilemma, I did so. After many days of devouring Scripture, I ended up with a very interesting series of Scriptures, which I conveniently call “Back To The Garden”, that ultimately caused me to re-examine, not only the man/woman relationship, the dilemma which plagued me, but also the very theme of Scripture which holds the Bible together. Once God opened my eyes to this theme, the entire Bible had a completely different appearance to me. It solved the riddles and the apparent contradictions found throughout Scripture. It was, as you could say, the “key” that unlocks the Word of God, and the “key” to God’s own heart. The unexpected byproduct was the revelation of the meaning of the words, “sin” and “innocence”.