A Prophet Among You

He created man from dust and named him Adam, but Adam was lonely; so God took from Adam a rib. With Adam’s rib God created a woman and called her Eve. Adam and Eve were placed in the Garden of Eden to live in harmony with God. The garden was a perfect utopia for Adam and Eve.

The well-known story of Adam and Eve was generally acknowledged by the public to be the story of human race’s origin. In the same story, God, a higher being, created a male to populate the world. Upon realizing that the man, Adam, was feeling lonely and isolated, God decided to create another being; a female to accompany him. The first female in the world, named Eve, was created when God drew a rib from Adam’s chest. From then on, Adam led their journey throughout the paradise of Eden. Nonetheless, after Eve was lured by an evil serpent into trouble, both Adam and Eve were thrown out of the paradise into the perilous reality of the world (Genesis 2-3 New International Version).

God’s command to “fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion” (Gen 1:28) by tilling the earth shows that man’s capacity to dominate the earth lies within himself, transforming it to his own needs.

Power, the apple gave us power,after eve bit into the apple we became self aware and thus had power over ourselves as well as our surroundings. And just like knowledge we yearned for power, some came in information, some in goods, and others in people's lives; such as human contact and families. We wanted to have it all and with ought the Genesis myth we would not have been given that power, the power to realize we are our own.

The beginning of the Old Testament starts by explaining how God created everything within seven days. He creates night and day, the sky and the ocean, vegetation, the stars, sun and moon, sea creatures, land creatures, and for the seventh day he rests. The Garden of Eden was the paradise where man once lived until Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit thus creating the original sin. Eve listened to the serpent and gave into temptation leading to the fall of man.

in the chapter was an indication of God’s of authority as He designed the earth and

The world and all its people belong to him. This illustrates that everything within the universe belongs to God, including all the living elements on earth. Likewise, the Lord is our shepherd and He is all powerful and comes before anything else. He made the world and is entitled to all aspects of it. (Bible Study Tools.com, 2014).

The first thing that he talks about is Adam and Eve and how they disobeyed an order, which was when they ate from the forbidden tree. The consequence of disobeying a request made the ties with Earth tear and their eyes to open. Adam and Eve never again observed each other as equivalents, they took a gander at each different as outsiders and additionally their general surroundings. Fromm states that the

(Grudem, 2003, p. 20) It says in Psalms 24:1, “The earth is the Lord’s and all it contains, the world, and those who dwell in it.” (Psalm 24:1, NASB) With that verse it clarifies that God is the sole owner of this

Distressed by his exile of Heaven he intended to lead humanity into rejecting God. This book portrays how and why good people turn evil, and even though it focuses mostly on evil it shows just how important the human mind is. It can make us kind, cruel, caring, or indifferent just depending on the situation.

And God looked upon the earth, and behold it was corrupt, and all flesh had corrupted its orders, and all that were upon the earth had wrought all manner of evil before His

The Question of Morality - Mankind was created good, but sin entered the world through Adam according to

     If we use the Weslyan definition of sin we find that there are four elements that lead to sin a personal voluntary act. The first of these is to use God as a standard. He is perfect and flawless, as we should strive to be. The second is man as a free personality. God gave us free will to decide our own actions; He did not just make us drones. The third makes sin a live option. It is something that is always there and we can always choose to do what God would have us do or go against His will. The fourth is a deed committed. This goes back to the third one. Sin is a willful act against God. We must choose right or wrong.

in God’s image and given power over all living things, Christian believed that humans are the

In Genesis, Adam and Eve are created by God and sent to rule over the Garden of Eden and to name and love all its creatures. Adam is a loyal and faithful companion to his wife, Eve, and takes on the role of leader and protector of his family. Eve is created as Adam’s companion, later becomes the world’s first sinner, and fills the role of caretaker for her family. The Year of the Flood molds the roles of Adam and Eve and offers instead a series of Adams and Eves as the highest members of a group of people known as God’s Gardeners. The new Adams