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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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Something I did not see earlier was Eve was deceived (she was never given the command from God not to eat of the tree, Adam was before she was created. See Gen. 2:16-17). Adam was openly disobedient and blatantly blamed God and Eve. “The man said, ‘The woman whom You gave to be with me (Blame!), she gave me from the tree, and I ate (Adam’s rationalization)’” (Gen 3:12, NASB).

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Then in the garden Adam and Eve did eat from the tree of knowledge of good and bad while they did this they discovered that had disobeyed god and through this they were

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Though Adam and Eve and Equality 7-2521 all developed in environments of utopian perfection, they experienced different freedoms and restrictions in their lives. Furthermore, one cannot be free without knowing what freedom truly is. Adam and Eve were told that they were allowed to consume any of the fruits from the trees in the garden except from the tree in the center of the garden. “ ‘You [Adam and Eve] must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it...’ ” (Genesis 3:3).

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Another example includes the appearance of the Garden of Eden after the temptation of Eve by the serpent. According to the book of Genesis, when Adam and Eve committed original sin, they lived lives with pain and sorrow. “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field” Genesis (3:17-18). In comparison, the Monkey Garden changed in nature of the monkey moved to Kentucky.

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Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden which was a place of youth and innocence, much like nature and the flower in the poem. Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge. Eve ate the fruit from the tree, committing the first sin. Then Eve tempted Adam into eating the fruit also. In the poem, the Garden of Eden “sank to grief”.

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So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

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In the Genesis account, God created human beings in His own image and likeness with a body and a soul which enables mankind to have the capacity to reason and choose certain actions that will manifest the Creator’s glory and restore man’s relationship with his true self and God. This statement may cause uneasiness for most people, but it is rather true for the reason that there is an inner voice calling and pulling humankind towards the good. In short, “everyone has natural inclinations towards truth and goodness as God conforms every human person in His likeness of wisdom and goodness as an interior master calling His creation to participate more deeply in their freedom.” Before tackling the first point, we should first prove how people cannot deny the fact that

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Adam represents Finny and Eve represents Gene. Gene commits a sin when he causes Finny to fall off the tree because of his jealousy. Eve commits a sin when she eats an apple from the Tree of Knowledge. Adam and Finny had to bear the consequences of what was done even though they did not actually do anything wrong. Throughout the novel, Gene tries to redeem himself for causing the death of Finny, but he never truly does redeem himself.

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The story of Adam and Eve serves as a tale on how mankind and womankind were created and placed on Earth. The story takes place in the Garden of Eden, and because the woman was deceived by the Serpent, both the women and the man were cast down to earth. The Serpent deceived the women by allowing her to eat the fruit from the forbidden tree, as she also influenced the man, God punished both. “Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” (Genesis 3:16 NIV) and that He allowed “Adam (to) named his wife Eve” (Genesis 3:20 NIV).

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In Genesis, the test that Adam and Eve faced was the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. God told them not to eat the fruit in Genesis 2:17: “but as for the tree of knowledge of good and bad, you must not eat of it”. They didn’t obey God and they ate the fruit anyway, so God punished them for failing the test. In our society today we still have tests/, laws, and boundaries to keep people in check. If we didn’t have these tests, we wouldn’t know our limits.

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We will soon learn that Eve had been more than lied to. Blinded by his lies this again will be Satan’s first attempt to destroy the seed line that was to lead to the birth of Jesus. “The Man Adam” had now gone against God and thus brought “The Sin”, which is death to the whole Earth including the sixth day creation “Mankind”. To really understand what happened in the Garden of Eden will be revealed in Chapter 7 “Apple or the Truth 7. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; (shame and “The Sin” had come to the 2nd Earth Age); and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.- Not covers for their mouth they had not eaten an “apple” as falsely taught.

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Also, in Genesis where Adam and Eve eat the fruit of knowledge and gain knowledge, but the knowledge also brings suffering into their lives. The

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“The Ground That Opened Its Mouth: The Ground’s Response to Human Violence in Genesis 4”, written by Duke University’s Mari Jorstad, is a scholarly article that covers the idea that the ground and the early humans did indeed have a connection. Furthermore, Dr. Jorstad’s thesis appears to be that the ground is responsive to God’s will, and thus opposes human rebellion and brutality. In other words, the ground reflects God’s will and this often times clashes with humans and their behavior. Dr. Jorstad, in her article, discusses examples that exemplify her point from the Book of Genesis, specifically in relation to Cain, Adam and Noah. To start, Dr. Jorstad establishes that herself, as well as many other scholars, have interpreted the ground as its own being when talking about early Genesis stories.

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Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy before childbirth, effectively resulting in the death of a fetus. It is an extremely controversial topic and is widely split in the middle separating the conflicting views of arguments pro abortion and against abortion. Many people think abortion is morally wrong and believe that it is the murder of an innocent baby with the baby’s human rights being overlooked and ignored. On the other side of the spectrum, many believe that an abortion should solely be up to the woman to choose, as it is her body and not letting her make a choice would be a violation of women's human rights. For Advocates for pro-abortion argue that abortion is a woman’s right in the sense that they get to make decisions for their

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Adam and Eve are ‘born’ in the Garden of Eden, an ethereal place where they want for nothing, or at least should want for nothing. This of

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