Not long after came the experience of being rejected, separated from, or cast out. This might be the most common description of modern shame, though wherever you find rejection you will also notice the sense of nakedness and contamination—the three go together. In this Genesis story each person felt separated from the other and both were separated from God. God “drove out the man [and woman]” (Genesis 3:24) and “sent [them] from the garden of Eden” (3:23).
