Your relationships with your neighbors, community members, and friends and family rely on human nature, due to your initial reaction and instincts. The way you act- and therefore represent yourself- dictates the closeness of the relationships in your life. Although we may believe in a higher power overseeing us at times, our decisions are based upon our own freedom to react. However, in the stories of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and Noah, their impulses were then acted upon additionally by a higher power. The stories “The Forbidden Fruit”, “The First Murder”, and “The Great Flood” refute human nature, how human beings react to their surroundings that cannot be taught from outside influences, because of God’s Manipulation over the people in each of the aforementioned stories.
The excerpt “The Forbidden Fruit” refutes human nature due to Eve eating fruit from the forbidden tree because of the temptation that God and the serpent had presented to her. “‘...God has forbidden us to eat the fruit of that tree or even to touch it; if we do, we shall die.’ ‘Of course you will not die,’ said
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“...God said to Noah, ‘I am going to bring the whole human race down to an end, for because of them the earth is full of violence. I am about to destroy them, and the earth along with them...’” (Genesis 57) According to God, the people of Earth had all sinned and turned the Earth into a world of evil and corruption. God alone planned to wipe out the entire human race and billions of animals, with the exception of Noah’s family and one male and one female of each animal breed. The Lord went to Noah and requested for him to build an arch. This does not exemplify human nature because Noah would not have had the instinct to build an arch and save his family out of nowhere, but instead he was blatantly told to by the Lord