Christian Creation Story: Christianity Is The Largest Religion

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Christianity is the largest religion in the world, with about 3.2 billion people following its’ beliefs, history and culture. In the Christian creation story, God initiated a six day trip to create the world, the animals and lastly Adam and Eve. “For Christians, the most important part of the story is the final creation of human beings.” (“Christian creation story”, 1) The Christian creations story says that Christians believe that humans are the most important of God’s creation. Adam and Eve were confide with the task of making the world a good and healthy place to live in, have many children and to prosper. Adam and Eve fell into temptation by the mischievous serpent to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and …show more content…

Adam and Eve were like robots, they were told what to do and followed everything ad verbum. God failed in many things and one of them was to tell Adam and Eve to listen to no one except for himself. “But the most cunning animal, which God had made –the serpent-, tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit.” Eve listened and Adam followed and this is where God was stabbed in the back by his own creation. Adam and Eve were just like children, the more you tell them not to do something the more they are going to do it. Their betrayal was what led God to tell Adam that he would not have to toil and sweat to work the very soil from which he had been created. The story continues saying how Adam and Eve were punished for life but they were still obligated to prosper, work the land and have many children. Adam and Eve’s children were born with inherited sinful desires and they were punished with death as well. This is why Jesus was needed; his sacrifice led to God’s forgiveness of what Adam did to mankind. “They believe that God sent Jesus to tell people about God’s love, and that Jesus died to forgive humanity’s sins.” (“Christian creation story”,