Guard the Garden: Our first duty in helping Eve

By Angela Eicher, Co-Proponent, Colorado Life Initiative

Abortion may be a woman’s "choice", but child sacrifice is a victory of the serpent. The

serpent came to Eve in the Garden of Eden. He spoke to Eve with his smooth, sly

words, casting doubt into her heart about the goodness of God. “Did God really say…?”

Then he attacked her with lies. “You certainly will not die! God knows well that when

you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods who know ‘good and evil’

“ (Gen 3: 4-5).

The serpent comes to a mother and casts doubt in her heart. “Do you really think you

can care for a baby, do you really think you can be a good mother to this baby?” Then

he attacks her with lies. “If you have a baby, it will ruin your life. If you have an abortion

no one will die, for there is only a blob of tissue and not a living human child within you.”

In Colorado, the serpent has easy access to attack mothers this way, just as the serpent

had easy access to Eve in the garden. When God created man, he instructed Adam to

care for and guard the garden. When God created woman, he created Eve to help

Adam. But what happened that Adam was not defending Eve when she was under

attack by the enemy? Why was he not on guard? Where was he?

“So she took some of its fruit and ate it, and she also gave some to her husband, who

was with her, and he ate” (Gen 3: 6).

He was with her but not protecting her. As the primary guardsman of the garden, it should have been Adam to confront the serpent and to shield his wife.

Thanks and praise be to God, the heavenly Father, who gave his only Son, our Lord,

Jesus Christ to do what Adam did not: to stand between us and the enemy. Christ

shields His Bride, the Church, from the enemy so that all who willingly reside in Him may

have eternal life.

As Christians, we must follow the example of Christ, not of Adam. We must shield our brothers and sisters from attacks of the enemy. We must guard the garden.

The serpent of child sacrifice has been roaming freely so long in Colorado that we have

forgotten our commission to get him out of our garden and keep him out. Rather, we

are accustomed to helping Eve make the right choice once she has already been

confronted by the serpent. We have gotten very good at helping mothers choose life.

We are helping them make good choices, but failing to guard them from attack in the

first place. This would be similar to Adam standing next to Eve and saying “Eve, please

do not eat this fruit for it is evil and you will die. Come let us go find good fruit” rather

than Adam standing between Eve and the serpent and saying to the serpent, “Serpent,

you do not belong here; leave my garden immediately.”

We must learn from the mistakes of our first parents and strive for the example of Christ.

Let us get the serpent of child sacrifice out of our garden here in Colorado. He shouldn’t be here; let us block his path to our mothers and children. Under the leadership and authority of Christ, our Head, we have the power to kick him out and keep him out. We can crush his head. We just have to believe it and do it.