I have recently started reading through the Bible again. My familiarity with Red Pill perspectives has improved since my last read-through and this time I am seeing elements and themes that were in prior readings obscured.
This article is about the first man, Adam, and some RP lessons that I have gleaned from his story. If you find this valuable and I keep seeing new lessons this could be the start of a series of articles.
Doubtless you are familiar with the creation story presented in the first chapters of the book that is in the Christian Bible called Genesis. In the beginning the Almighty brings forth from nothing all that is. He creates the featureless Earth and in the course of the six days of creation gives it structure, place, and inhabitants. In each day He creates something and names it, beginning with Day itself and concluding with the race of Man.
In this sequence we see the Almighty creating both physically by the act of making and conceptually by giving names. It is not enough that the thing is brought into existence; it is also given order by its master.
The first man is named Adam and his first task is to review all creatures, naming them and searching for one to be his helpmeet. In this sequence we see him being delegated aspects of the Divine role by tasking him with name-giving and the search of a partner -- a partner not only in his duties as caretaker but also in the process of physical creation by the perpetuation of his own kind.
When Adam's search is fruitless God fashions for him a mate from his own body. Adam promptly names her Eve.
The pair are blessed & set with the task of caring for their dominion. Adam's mastery is delegated, not absolute; in all the Earth there is one thing the pair is forbidden to do; to eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
As you know in the next story they do it.
The tempter convinces Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. She in turn gives it to Adam who likewise eats. The pair discover shame and are cast from paradise, leading by twists and turns to the decayed estate in which we find ourselves today.
Any number of things may be unpacked from this story but limiting myself to the Red Pill lens brings a few lessons into focus.
Examining the acts of naming illuminates Adam's role and failure. To our dull, scientific minds the act of naming mainly helps us communicate to each other about which bugs we have in our bug collections. To the culture that wrote this story naming was part of creation. To name was to set in order, to be incorporated into the story, and without having been set in order any lump of matter had no part to play and mine-as-well not exist.
In the first half of the story the Almighty gives names. In the second half He delegates this task to Adam. Adam names the beasts. Adam names Eve. So all things were set in order and they were Very Good.
None of us have the groundbreaking task or opportunity of Adam; everything has been named, even if we struggle to remember. We are however given the same task of setting in order as our male ancestor was, in kind if not in scope. The nature of things requires it be done and that it be done by us.
Adam was the first to fail in this task. Authorities disagree on whether Adam was present when Eve was led astray but whether he was present or absent he certainly failed to maintain the order that was delegated to his care. He who had been the instructor became the instructed and meekly accepted the fruit from his wife's hand.
While Scripture does not record what happened between the Creation and the Fall, how likely is it that this event was the first time Adam had surrendered this responsibility? To my mind not at all likely. He had probably let Eve have her way in many matters, each innocent but in the aggregate a pattern leading eventually to this terrible point. The one who had named all the inhabitants of Earth is not recorded as speaking a single word when it most mattered. If he still had the power of choice he chose to comply. He chose to eat.
Adam abandoned his role. It worked for a while and then it did not. All ruin on Earth proceeds from this choice. Here is a sobering lesson.
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