Analysis Of Human Nature In The Book Of Genesis

In Genesis, the serpent tempts Eve to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which can gain wisdom after eat the apple. Eve eats and persuades her husband Adam to eat either, this makes LORD God angry so he banishes Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden. In L.W.W, Edmund tempts by the magic food Turkish Delight from the White Witch. Under the temptation of Turkish Delight, Edmund tells everything about his siblings and later the plan to meet Aslan. “At first Edmund tries to remember that it is rude to speak with one’s mouth full, but soon he forgot about this and thought only of trying to shovel down as much Turkish Delight as he could, and the more he ate the more he wanted to eat, and he never asked himself why the Queen should be so inquisitive.” (Lewis, 43). The role of temptation in both L.W.W and Genesis is to make people disobey what others told them, and do things they shouldn’t

However, the Lord felt that Adam needed a partner to suit him. This is when God took the rib from Adam and made the woman. Thus, Adam and Eve were the first humans created on the Earth. Little did they know that temptation would face them. Temptation would come through the Serpent and deceive Eve first. The serpent was very crafty in his language by questioning God. Eventually the serpent persuades Eve to eat the fruit to be knowledgeable of good and evil. Later, Adam is deceived by watching Eve eat from the forbidden tree. They both partake in eating what God has told them not to eat. God finds out that they have disobeyed him and creates hostility between the man and woman. Since Adam and Eve became knowledgable after eating the fruit, they realized their nakedness. Although God shows his anger towards Adam and Eve, he clothes them with garments of skins. Through these chapters we see a just, but loving

Things change when the serpent appeared to Eve and talked her into eating from the exact tree that God commanded them to eat from. Genesis 3:6 says, “So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate” (NIV). This is where the root of all human problems began. This is why all humans are born as sinners.

In Genesis one and two, it provides a full understanding of God’s creations and wisdom of human nature because it is free from evil. Human nature is revealed from Genesis one with God creating the Earth and the Heavens and creating the man of his likeness. The Bible explains how God created Adam, from dust and was placed in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:7). The Bible explains humanity was created to work and serve (Genesis 2:15). Subsequently, Eve was created; “God had created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him: male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27). Adam and Eve would help God because He wanted them to multiply the Earth by taking care of all of his creation (Hiles & Smith, 2014). God is the sovereign ruler, he created humanity as how he should have wanted. The Bible explains about human nature that God created everything to be distinct from animals and all of His creation. God created us in his own image, which is why we all look different; we are unique in His eyes. Also, God created us to be good because we are born innocent of all evil and loving of God. In addition, we were all born pure as Adam and Eve were. The Bible explains that God was pleased with his creations, “God saw that it was good” (Genesis 1:10-21).

The book of Genesis records the creation of the world and everything in it, as well the early relationship between God and humanity. God creates man, Adam, “from the dust of the ground” (Genesis 2:7) and places him in a paradise on Earth called the garden of Eden, where he also places the tree of knowledge of good and evil. From the man, God creates a woman and tells them that they “may freely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil [they] shall not eat, for in the day that [they] eat of it [they] shall die (Genesis 2:16). Despite this warning, the woman, Eve, is eventually tempted to eat the fruit of the treat and convinces Adam to do the same, causing them to be cast out of the garden. Although Adam and Eve do have free will to do what they

In the Garden of Eden, Eve encounters a crafty serpent who convinces her to eat of the tree’s forbidden fruit when it says, “You will not die; for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” (Hebrew Bible, p. 15). In one way or another, the serpent’s temptation of Eve plays right into a deep desire of being “like God”. She disregards God’s command and is enticed with the idea of breaking out of her human nature. As both Adam and Eve fall into temptation, they confront their true selves. This confrontation happens when they eat of the fruit and immediately notice a significant change. “Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.” (Hebrew Bible, p. 15). The fruit grants them knowledge and wisdom, and with it the realization that are not like God. As Adam and Eve become aware of their rooted humanity, they “sew fig leaves together to make loincloths for themselves”. This instinct to cover their genitalia, a symbol of their mortality, reveals the shame of their own transience. God uses this shame as punishment when he curses

For Genesis most people would characterize Eve as being foolish for listening to a snake, however, I see it as being curious. The snake is described as being “more subtil than any beast of the field” (Genesis 1.1). She cannot be blamed for being a fool since the snake was clearly more cleaver than she was. Adam however committed the same crime as Eve, but he was convinced by his equal to do so. When God created man and woman he made them clueless, they were unaware of good and evil. Eve saw the opportunity the tree of the knowledge of good and evil had to offer her. The tree would make her wise and although God said they would die from eating the fruit they did not. By acting independently Eve was able to open her eyes to the truth of her surroundings. In Proverb they describe everything a woman does more than just bare children. They are smart individuals who have the ability to achieve

“A human is fundamentally a dialogue between body and spirit” (Swidler, 2014:2). Our sin nature comes from the point when “The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.”(Genesis 2:9, NIV) This tree that God created will later be used as a tool to enable humanity’s initial fall. “Now the serpent was craftier than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’” “You will not

Like the temptation of Eve by the serpent in the Garden of Eden, consuming the delicious fruit grown from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, from which it caused Man to be inflicted with Original Sin, the FYC did not always keep their end of the bargain with the

Just like how a child becomes fascinated after hearing stories of their babyhood, or how a family is eager to discover their genealogy, the book of Genesis is a very intriguing story to many Christians because it depicts how mankind and the world around them were formed. Genesis 1-3 allow a base knowledge for understanding the rest of the bible because it portrays the way that God created the world – how it was supposed to be and why the world is the way it is today. After God spends six days working on creating his idea of a perfect world, it says “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good,” (Genesis 1:31). However, as Eve disobeyed God’s word and listened to the deceitful serpent, God knew he needed to punish Adam and Eve in order

In Genesis 3, the author gives a detailed account regarding mankind’s fall from grace after forebearers Adam and Eve go against God’s commandment to eat from the Tree of Knowledge by eating from it anyway. Although much of the blame goes to the deception from the serpentine creature, another part of it also has to do with how willingly mankind decided to do what they knew was evil in the sight of The Lord, as long as they were personally satisfied. Even in the book of Exodus, the same group of people that God raised up from the bondage of Egyptian oppression and overall misery didn’t have a second thought when they simply cast that same God aside in favor of a visually-splendorous, manmade image. These two Biblical instances in particular seem to suggest that there is a darker side to the human condition, that perhaps human nature is predisposed to evil over good, to hate over love, to pride over humility.

“So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27) This verse in scripture discusses how not only did God create the heavens and the earths but he also created mankind perfectly in his image. When God had created man and woman he did so for the full purpose of man and woman to go out and make disciples (Matthew 28:19) and to also serve him and bring him all the glory (Romans 11:36). However because of the Fall of Adam and Even in Genesis 3 where Eve had disobeyed Gods orders Adam and Eve not to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (Genesis 2:17) sin had entered into the world. Sin becomes apparent in Genesis 4 once again when Cain attacks and kills his

Even though the serpent manipulated the humans, it is not responsible for humans’ sin (Hauer 65). Although the serpent tempted the humans to eat the forbidden fruit in the Garden, they could have resisted. By resisting, humans disobeyed God. God states, “…Cursed is the ground because of you…” (New International Version, Genesis 3:17).

However, they rebel and sin enters the world after a serpent tricks Eve into questioning God’s love and motives. In her gullible innocence, she ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 3). Eve shared the fruit with Adam and they spiritually and physically die. This was catastrophic to Gods Order and led to the condemnation of all human beings (Roman 5:18). Immediately, they

Evil enters into the equation when Adam and Eve defy God and eat from the