le: Genesis 2:4-4:16 In my Bible World project, the Adam and Eve Family Treehouse replaces The Swiss Family Treehouse (Magic Kingdom, Tokyo Disneyland, and Disneyland Paris) and Tarzan’s Treehouse (Disneyland and Hong Kong Disneyland). It is located in the Miraculous Kingdom’s Old Testament land. The Treehouse (arbor mortalitatis) takes place after the Fall (a.k.a. the Original Sin of Adam and Eve). As such, Adam and Eve have been banished from the Garden of Eden so that they do not eat from the Tree of Life. Although there aren’t the numbers and types of plant life as in the Garden, the land is still rather rich. Adam and Eve’s children Cain and Abel are children at this time. As to be expected, they all wear clothes (prior to the Fall, Adam and Eve had been “naked and without shame”). Their first clothing was loincloths (sewn-together fig leaves) that God had provided (3:7). The second set of clothing was leather garments made by God presumably from some of the animals in the Garden. There are a number of “mementos” from the Garden. Guests can look at an animal-skin (i.e. parchment) “book” in which Adam has drawn many of the animals he has encountered and the names he gave each. The pages are made of plastic so they will last long as set pieces. Adam has made a replica fruit (sculpture) of the one from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, which looks like a pomegranate (note: the Bible never mentions what type of fruit it was, although it probably wasn’t an apple). In the Treehouse are also items related to their daily work. The division of labor is similar to the division of labor in Jesus’ childhood home where Joseph worked as a carpenter and Mary was tasked with forming Jesus at home. In the first family, Adam would probably have been tasked with hunting and gathering (see 2:17-19, where it describes “by the sweat of your face”). Hence, there are primitive tools such as wooden spears and stone hammers found in the Treehouse Eve would have been the homemaker, so empty coconuts with water and wooden spoons are found in the kitchen area. The firstborn, Cain, is a farmer, so some tools with produce growing next to the Treehouse are seen (4:2). Abel, the secondborn, is given a pen for keeping the flocks (4:2). Perhaps the most surprising (and least spoken of) of the saints in Heaven are Saints Adam and Eve. Although not specifically mentioned in the Bible, Catholic tradition holds that after Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden, they repented of their sins and died in friendship with God. Saints are given a particular “feast day” (e.g. Saint Patrick’s is March 17th); Saints Adam and Eve’s is December 24th (a.k.a. Christmas Eve).
Adam and Eve’s Family Treehouse gives guests the opportunity to see how primative living might have been like while also making connections to what is understood about the first humans, especially from the Bible.
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