Chapter 3:                                               YOUR EDEN   

Now I would like to get a little more personal.  Your was placed in the darkness of a womb where your conception took place.  Let us think of this tiny womb as your own personal garden, your own Eden, the place where all ordained human life begins.  For your conception to have taken place, everything needed to be just as the creator had intended and in perfect alignment with this creative power.  If that were not so, you would not be reading this book.  For some though, the circumstances under which their conception took place may not have been as the Creator intended.   Some of us were conceived in a moment of passionate infatuation.    Unfortunately for others their conception took place during the violent act of rape.  In this instance, traces of that pain may have had a devastating effect on the fetus which could show up later in growth outside the womb.  Yet, even in the latter, in order for you to exist in human form, the process for insemination and seed fertilization must have been in perfect alignment with the created order.  Regardless of the circumstances surrounding your conception, you are now in the womb and the womb has become your own personal Eden, a place where your ordained innocent human life began.  But! Your innocence is no more, for you are now at the mercy of your mothers and fathers genetic family history.  You will be subjected to their diseases, their addictions, their habits and yes even their thoughts both good and bad.   In the early stages of life you have no control over what comes next.  Here in the womb in the moments of conception, we all start out completely innocent but at the mercy of our human gene pool and our DNA and whatever we receive from the umbilical cord that feeds and sustains us.   

WHILE IN YOUR EDEN

Everything your mother and father have in their ancestral genetic gene pool now joins together to create you as your cells begin to divide and grow.   Everything your mother takes into her body through eating, drinking, thinking or breathing, is to some degree fed to you through the ingenious invention of the umbilical feeding cord.  Every feeling and emotion, negative or positive your mother feels, you now begin to experience, to some degree.  For some the effect may be minimal but for others the consequences can be devastating.  The women who is carrying you in her womb, is now a part of you as you are a part of her.  Her DNA, the fathers DNA and you all come together as you become one with them.   Jesus expresses this oneness with his father in much the same way with this strange metaphor found in John 6: beginning at verse 56 where he says, “whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I remain in him.  Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.” According to Christian teachings taking Jesus into your life in this way makes you one with him and his father.   The ritual within the Christian church that illustrates this best is the service of communion.  Here the sharing of bread and wine symbolically represents become one with Jesus.   Others feel that you can take Christ in by feeding on the words and teachings of Jesus from scripture.     

Using the womb as a metaphor we can begin to imagine or image that your seed will receive through its feeding tube {the umbilical cord} both good nourishment as well as bad nourishment from the parent.  What you must remember here is that you have no control over what you will receive and are at this point in conception completely innocent.   For the moment, we will concentrate on some of the bad nourishment. The bad stuff can and does come in the form of contaminated food and poor air quality.  There are unwanted chemicals, negative thoughts and feelings, a history of genetic diseases and or deformities that you have no control over.  Theses contaminates if received in excess can play havoc with your growth and development in the womb before you were born.   Some of the common addictive contaminates would include prescription and non-prescription drugs, tobacco and alcohol.   Even mental and physical diseases can be genetically transferred from the genes of the mother, father or prior family generations to the child during this period of development.  These contaminates could also make your cells susceptible to certain diseases or addictions as you grow and mature in and out of the womb.  Let us consider just one chemical that has been confirmed as having serious adverse effect on the fetus, FAC, or “Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.”  This syndrome has produced birth defects, learning, and behavioral problems affecting individuals whose mothers consumed alcohol during pregnancy for whatever the reason.  It has been stated that FAS is the most common preventable cause of mental retardation.   With drawl symptoms have also been observed in some newborns affected by FAS.   This condition was officially recognized and reported in the French medical literature of 1968 and included in the American medical literature of 1973.  It has been reported by Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in the USA that FAS affects 2 live births in every 1000.   FAE or Fetal Alcohol Effects which is a milder form of FAS affects 3 to 5 live births in every 1000.   Alcohol is only one of the foreign substances that may have been transmitted to you through the umbilical cord feeding system. There are chemicals found in purified water, processed foods, prescription drugs, over the counter medications, tobacco, and the list goes on.

Let us remember that there is good positive nourishment happing also.  This would lead us to conclude that the unborn are completely innocent and helpless at all stages of development while in the womb.  

Next Time :                    "EDEN COMES TO ITS END"