The Moral Sense Of Adam And Eve

people and nature; in short, their innocence. The Bible says that Adam and Eve became aware of good and evil. According to the Bible, Adam and Eve were also ashamed of being naked. Human beings now became aware of the consequences of their actions, their moral sense was established. At the same time the ability to imagine and to think developed, and humans became aware of their death, the concept of the ego was established. The ego served to bring about individual (and the human race) survival in the dangerous living conditions of those days. The other reason for this development was the fear of death or the loss of personal identity. The story about the tree of good and bad knowledge and of Adam and Eve being ashamed of their nakedness, as told in the first book of Moses, is a symbolic description of the establishment of the ego, the ability to think, and the moral sense.
The establishment of the ego and a moral sense as well as the ability to imagine and think gave this new human being a vastly wider scope to maximise their physical well-being and pleasures. However, at the same time it meant a feeling of separateness, internal emptiness, loneliness, and endless cravings for personal fulfilment. In other words, it meant some more pleasures, but more misery and unhappiness also. If this sounds familiar, you are not alone as …show more content…
In other words, we do not really live and encounter other people and nature from the depth of our consciousness, feelings and intelligence, but act more like robots and view life through the coloured lenses of the roles we have created. Roles are one of the expressions of the ego. The ego uses the most suitable role that guarantees its survival in various life situations. It requires a lot of attention and consciousness to be aware of the various ways the ego is