To understand the world at the time when Adam and Eve lived in their garden home, we need to examine in more detail the principles of their dominion. God gave Adam a job. Essentially, it was to care for His creation. The biblical record speaks about this as the heavens (sky, stars, outer space etc.), the whole world and the entire animal kingdom. Even today that is a tall order, but for Adam it was a reasonable, attainable and enjoyable task, which can only mean that he had the abilities, the wherewithal for the position. To Adam these resources were natural, but to us they may appear to be supernatural.
There was no need for tools, as we understand them, no roads and bridges, no vehicles, no aircraft, no radios and no scientific instruments. There are no recorded details of the tools of his dominion, however throughout recorded history there are accounts of what we call miracles that give us glimpses of the tools that God might have given to Adam. Examples of these might be:
- Making a dry road through the Red Sea
- Feeding the nation of Israelites throughout their journey through the desert
- Blowing down the walls of a city with loud sounds
- Stopping the sun in the sky for hours
- Instantaneous distance travel
- Filling every available container in the neighbourhood from a small container of oil
- Changing water into wine
- Walking on water
- Raising the dead
- Healing the sick
- Lifting off the ground and ascending into heaven
If all of these miracles were available to Adam before the fall, then journeys to other planets and galaxies were not impossible. In short, if Adam had all that the carrot of technology promises for us today and for tomorrow, then he could have done the job required of him.
He decided with his wife, mother of all humanity, to get smart instead.
When God banished Adam and Eve from the Garden, the commission to care for His creation remained, but the supernatural powers to do the job - of communication and travel, if they existed, remained lost to the world, locked in Eden.
Adam's rib was a cell factory, a source of his DNA, but where did all the other parts for Eve come from? Human's came as the last of a long line of DNA based creation. It hints that it followed the same pattern. What happened then was a tried and tested process. Why God didn't create Eve at the same time as Adam, is an interesting question. As if God, the Father for Adam should somehow have been enough.
When He created the animals perhaps, God had sufficient DNA prepared for male and female, but again the question arises, what was the clay used to build the bodies? Then there is an intriguing concept, once God shaped the body, of filling that frame with cells and then reproducing the DNA into every cell.
It was not a simple gene modification as we have today, but a complete DNA transplant. Dare I suggest instant cloning as a possibility? Interesting times are in store for the scientists.
It is a logical assumption that all the miraculous power toys were available to Adam and Eve, but if not, that is not the issue. What is important is that the miracles were available throughout history. In great grace, God very often implements them through individual people and occasionally through angels, but always for the benefit of people. Perhaps this principle is an example of one of those laws. He is still our loving Father.
