Peaceful greetings to the reader:
I have been tending to think that the Garden of Eden had some preservation laws within it. Laws for the preservation of Man and Woman and their descendants dwelling in that Heavenly State. I am also tending to think that God/Eli/Yahweh/Allah through the 2 Holy Books was restoring a few of those “preservation laws” for the Earthly sentence.
1st example is Leviticus 1-7 where God establishes the types of animals that are lawful for sacrifice. These laws appear to preserve believing man and woman from being used as sacrifices. They can be read here: https://www.blueletterbible.org/nlt/lev/1/1/s_91001
2nd example is Leviticus 16 where God establishes the types of animals that are lawful as scapegoats. These laws appear to preserve believing man and woman from being used as scapegoats. It can be read here: https://www.blueletterbible.org/nlt/lev/16/1/s_106001
3rd example is Leviticus 17 where God establishes that sacrifices (whole living animals lawful for sacrifice) are only to be offered at the Tabernacle in Jerusalem. However we do get at the book of Malachi the Lord closing the Temple doors and only He Knows when He will re-open them. Also in the Holy Quran Sacrificial Precincts are in Mecca by the lawful established ordinances by the Religious Authorities in Saudi. But, the Lord God is accepting sacrifices in Mecca. Otherwise, the alternatives are: Prayers; Fasting; Charity, Testimony about God and His Holy Words; Holy Pilgrimage (or Tour in other words getting on higher ground) to either of the 2 Holy Cities by the respected Laws of the Religious Authorities in Jerusalem or Mecca.
Also in Leviticus 17 man, woman, and animals are being preserved from being made sacrifices upon altars that people just randomly think up in their minds to erect out in the fields outside of Jerusalem (and Mecca). God is saying here that those altars are offerings to evil spirits. May God be eternal refuge against them. Amen.
Also in Leviticus 17 man and woman are being preserved from having their blood and life consumed by another created being by the “Prohibition on the Consumption of Blood” which has embedded in the language the “Prohibition on the Consumption of the Life (that flows through the blood)” I have been tending to think that this echoes the Tree of Forbidden Life or Forbidden Fruit. The language around the naming of that Tree seems to point to that it contained life that was forbidden for human consumption. This is similar to the life in created beings of animals and humans that have been made forbidden for consumption, when the Lord God said, “the life of every creature is in the blood (and the blood has been made forbidden for consumption)” Thus we cannot consume the blood or the life of other created beings. That perhaps the similitude of the Tree of Forbidden Life or Fruit on Earth would be consuming the blood and life of other created beings including humans. It can be read here: https://www.blueletterbible.org/nlt/lev/17/1/s_107001
4th example is Leviticus 24:17 ““Anyone who takes another person’s life must be put to death.” It appears to be a preservation for believing man and woman and a repeat of Leviticus 17 on the Prohibition of the consumption of blood and life of humans. But it seems to imply, by the language “takes another person’s life” a spectrum of 0 to 100% of that person’s life. Not to “take” life from another believing man and woman. As well as, to guard against the spread of the shedding of blood upon the Earth. An example was when there was an issue in India and Egypt of the stealing and trafficking of organs from victims without their consent. While it was not the taking of 100% of the victims lives it was a percentage of their lives that was taken. Leviticus 24:17 can be read here: https://www.blueletterbible.org/nlt/lev/24/1/s_114001
All of these when viewed together seem to continue the concept of Rights against humans being considered gods and goddesses, which was the argument used to tempt Adam and Eve to eat of the Forbidden Fruit. The issue of gods and goddesses is an issue about the Attributes of God, as well. The most obvious being “The Sustainer; The Cherisher of Life; The Source of Life; and The Remover of Sins”. God in the book of Leviticus attempts to preserve man and woman from the God-Duties of being Sustainer, Cherisher, Source of Life, Remover of Sins, etc. Namely because man and woman cannot do what God does. We have to remember that the State of the Garden of Eden for man and woman was not a state of man and woman being god and goddess in Eden.
Those examples above are supported by the passages on Nabi Ibrahiim (epbuh) who was about to slaughter one of his sons as a sacrificial offering to Allah (swt) but an Angel of Allah (swt) came to him at the precisely right time and said don’t do but instead sacrifice this Ram instead. Surah 37:
- So We gave him the good news of a boy ready to suffer and
forbear. - Then, when (the son) reached (the age of) (serious) work
with him, he said: “O my son! I see in vision that I offer thee
in sacrifice: Now see what is thy view!” (The son) said: “O my
father! Do as thou art commanded: Thou will find me, if Allah so
wills one practicing Patience and Constancy!” - So when they had both submitted their wills (to Allah), and
he had laid him prostrate on his forehead (for sacrifice), - We called out to him, “O Abraham!
- “Thou hast already fulfilled the vision!” –Thus indeed do
We reward those who do right. - For this was obviously a trial–
- And We ransomed him with a momentous sacrifice:
- And We left (this blessing) for him among generations (to
come) in later times: - “Peace and salutation to Abraham!”
- Thus indeed do We reward those who do right.
- For he was one of Our believing Servants.
- And We gave him the good news of Isaac–a prophet, –one of
the Righteous. - We blessed him and Isaac: But of their progeny are (some)
that do right and (some) that obviously do wrong, to their own
souls.
The first 2 parts of the observations on this topic are below.
Work And The Other Work 