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Genesis 1-11 Traditions

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After God formed the world with all of its numerous synchronized structures and its living creatures with all of the resources he has provided, God said that he “saw all that he had made, and it was very good”. (Genesis 1:31) In Genesis 2:15, God gave us man, dominant over all other breathing mortal. He told Adam and Eve to “take care” of his garden. He also provided Adam and Eve the liberty to eat from the trees in the garden, but there was one tree whose fruit they were banned from to eat, the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil”. (Genesis 2:17) If they ate of it, they would “die”. (Genesis 2:17) So God obviously had given Adam and Eve everything that was necessary to live. The only thing that God requested was that they would they trust him with the elite expertize and control to regulate what things are good and what things are evil. Adam and Eve lived in God’s garden in an individual relationship with God and everything was good.
When Eve and Adam ate the hindered fruit their relationship with God was broken. They didn’t die directly, but they were banished from God’s garden and was mandated to tolerate aching and suffering to provide for their children and their needs and wants. This disobedient …show more content…

It communicates repeatedly His requests and His invites, to just trust in Him, to have devotion to His Word, and to receive the grace that he offers to us. The type of relationship that God desires to have with us is shown through the stories in the Bible, stories like of Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Samuel, David, Isaiah, Daniel, John the Baptist, Mary and Joseph, Jesus, and his disciples, Peter, James, John, Matthew, Mark, Paul, Barnabas, Luke, Timothy and others. In these stories, God proves over and over of his adoring longing to support and help those who will trust in him and who will live a devoted and dedicated life based upon His

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