The term loss of innocence is an ambiguous term. Most commonly, the loss of innocence is associated with virginity. Additionally, the loss of innocence may be associated with adulthood. A person is no longer a child and therefore can see the world differently than when he was a child. As children they may have been naive, unaware; not yet knowing the evil or evil that exists in the world. The idea of ​​the loss of innocence can even be traced back to the Book of Genesis and the story of Adam and Eve. In this biblical story Adam and Eve experience a loss of innocence. Adam and Eve in the Book of Genesis not only mark a loss of innocence, but for years the story has been used as biblical teaching. It is an important story that establishes a relationship between God and humanity. The story begins with the phrase, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Pagels, xi). From the opening words of the story, God is considered the creator. He is the creator, the absolute being from whom all other things are created. In the process of God's creation, he repeats the phrase "after his kind" (Pagels, xi). He does this to emphasize that each creature has its own unique function and to establish that there are limits and boundaries to each creature's existence. There is a distinction, a type of separation between God and all other beings. God is unlimited and infinite, while all other things are limited and finite. Man exists somewhere between the state of creatureliness and that of divinity. Similar to the way God gave commands to other creatures, He tells man that he should be “fruitful and multiply” (Pagels, xii). The purpose of man is to procreate, according to Genesis. Yet man's function is unique... middle of paper... I am ashamed that their bodies are naked. It is not the nakedness itself that causes shame, but the fact that Adam and Eve suddenly recognize their own vulnerability and that there is such a thing as being exposed. The loss of innocence for Adam and Eve is connected to the concept of truly “knowing” and “seeing”. Before eating the forbidden fruit they lived blindly; respecting God's commands without asking questions. It is the serpent that tempts them and challenges the authority of God. Curiosity and knowledge are what leads Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. Once they do, they realize the difference that exists between them and the creatures around them, between the physical bodies of Adam and Eve; difference exists everywhere around them. When Adam and Eve eat from the Tree of Knowledge, they think and see for the first time.