Biblical - Genesis 1:1 – 3:24 The Creation and Fall
Who: God, Adam, Eve, and Serpent
Plot: In the beginning God created earth and heaven. Which involved both day, night, water, land, everything think of. After that God then created a man of his desire which was Adam. So, Adam would not be alone he gave him animals. Animals were not enough so then God created Eve from Adams rib. They both could eat of any tree except the one God had prohibited them to eat from. Then later in the fall a Serpent came and convinced Eve that is was okay to eat from the tree. Eve listened to the serpent and ate from the forbidden tree. Eve then convinced her husband to do the same. Then God cursed them sent them through pain.
Point: God gave these two humans everything they needed under one condition and they decided to disobey him which led to the down fall.
Other: Serpent was the symbol of the evil which Eve obeyed.
Genesis 4: 1-15 The First Murder
Who: Cain and Abel
Plot: The sons of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel. Abel was a keeper for the sheep so his offering for an animal meanwhile Cain was a tiller and his offering was a fruit. The lord accepted Abel’s and not Cain’s. Cain got frustrated and upset that the Lord did not respect or take him serious about his offering. Later, both Cain and Abel were out in the field and Cain killed his brother Abel. God then questioned Cain to see where his brother was and Cain replied with “I do not know, Am I my brother’s keeper”. After that Cain
The story of Adam and Eve is simple. God created man and gave him a wife and all the animals, along with the Garden of Eden. The only rule was that they could not eat the fruit from the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil or the tree of Life (Genesis 2:8-3:24). Eve, tempted by evil, ate from the tree anyway and let her husband eat from it too.
Now that Adam and Eve had entered into the world outside the garden they were left to fend for themselves. They had two sons Cain and Abel. Cain became a farmer and Able became a herdsman. They both offered God a sacrifice but Abel’s sacrifice
The serpent eventually persuades Eve to eat from the “Tree of Knowledge”. After she eats from it, she has Adam eat from it. Shortly after, they finally notice they are naked and become self conscious and cover up. God then asks about what they have done and Eve blames Adam, while Adam blames the Serpent. God curses them, and makes Eve suffer through labor and banishes both of them from the Garden of Eden.
A tale of two brothers. Cain slays Abel out of wrath. Cain and Abel are two brothers and the sons of Adam and Eve. God gave Cain the job of a farmer and Abel the job of a shepherd. When Cain and Abel find out that they both have to sacrifice a lamb to God, Abel sacrifices his best lamb to God while Cain sacrifices some extra wheat he has. Cain becomes angry at Abel and God because God favored Abel’s sacrifice. Cain then leads Abel to a field and slays him out of rage. These events take place in Genesis’ book Cain and Abel. Genesis interprets the human experience in many ways throughout the story. Genesis interprets the human experience in the story by showing jealousy, attention seeking, and that crime will be punished.
Cain and Abel are the first two sons of Adam and Eve. Cain is the eldest and Abel is the youngest. Cain is described as the tiller of the ground whereas Abel is the keeper of sheep. Both men know that God requires an offering, but the offering of Cain is quite different from that of Abel. Abel fears God, and because of this he offers the best of his flock to the Lord. He kills the animal and makes a sacrifice of blood. Abel understands that the shedding of innocent blood for the forgiveness of sin is acceptable. He also knows that this action of his is representative of surrendering his heart to God. By contrast, Cain brings what he has grown and gathered from the earth. In a way, a foolish man would think
Recognition of a failure to follow God’s commands brings about new capabilities. In violating God’s commandments, Adam and Eve come to learn that they can choose to live
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 Christian story, Adam and Eve had told that they could not eat the food from the good and evil tree. However, they ate it and realized they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. Then, God found out that what they done and banished them from the Garden of Eden to the ground. After this, Adam and Eve had to live on their own. On the other hand, in Iroquois the two brothers now created a world for them to live. However, whenever the good mind brother - Enigorio created something, the bad mind brother ? Enigonhahetgea must deprive of his. Then, Enigonhahetgea offered a challenge to his brother ? Enigorio and resolved that who gains the victory should govern the universe. Engiorio won and he crushed his brother ? Enigonhahetgea in the earth. Compare these two story, the God punished Adam and Eve which is an education story for us. To remind us if we did something bad, God will punish us in some way. However, Enigorio killed his own brother ? Enigonhahetgea that is a brutal and real-life story. To remind us the real world have two rather people that if you do not protect yourself
God creates Adam and Eve. * God places them in the garden. The Fall: * Eve is deceived and Adams falls.
The biblical story of Cain and Abel plays a central role in the novel East of Eden. In "Genesis", Adam and Eve 's sons, Cain and Abel, offered sacrifices to God. The shepherd Abel sacrifices his best lamb, while the farmer Cain offers grain. Because God prefers Abel 's gift over Cain 's, Cain becomes infuriated and kills his brother in a jealous rage.
Another biblical example of a moral or intrinsic evil is the result of Adam and Eves disobedience of God’s free will in the Garden of Eden and becomes even more clear to them with the birth of their two sons, Cain and Abel. The birth of these two sons brings the evil of lethal violence to society. It begins with rivalry amongst siblings of jealousy and family fighting. Cain’s jealousy finally ends with him making the decision to commit murder and kill his brother Abel. This decision of moral or intrinsic evil made by Cain is the first taking of human life and the deterioration of humanity’s condition. The act of murder is not an act of God, it is an act of man and because of man’s action, evil succeeds in society. Again, the problem of
As Adam and Eve ate the fruit, they became naked and god cursed them by banishing them from the Garden of Eden and placing a guard around the Tree of Life. The serpent is pre-existent evil and is considered a proto, a type of Satan (devil).
To truly comprehend a biblical passage, it is important to have knowledge of the ‘hermeneutics which enables an understanding of the locus of meaning and the principles of bible interpretation’ . The audience needs to have a clear interpretation of the biblical passage which includes ‘content and unity of the whole of Scripture if the meaning of the sacred texts is to be correctly worked out’ , this supports the argument that all worlds of the text are equally important. ‘Biblical passages are often taken out of context and interpreted to support a particular viewpoint of justify a particular action’ . It is imperative to note that ‘in order to discover the sacred authors' intention, the reader must take into account the conditions of their
The reason God didn’t want Adam and Eve to eat the fruit from the tree of wisdom was because he didn’t want them to become aware of good, and evil, god wanted them to stay pure and clean. After, this they were put out on their own, this is kind of similar to the Skywoman. They sky woman was doing something she wasn’t supposed to do like eat the forbidden apple or like Skywoman she touched the tree roots when she wasn’t supposed to. The similarity here is Skywoman fell and was on her own, but had some help from the animals. Adam and Eve were able to live with help from God but were sent out on their own when they disobeyed his rules when they ate the apple.
The book of Genesis is often referred to as the book of beginnings. Genesis is the first book that begins the Old Testament, it is also the first book of the entire Bible. The Lord also began the world in the book of Genesis, He made the heavens and the earth, man and woman. In Genesis chapters one through eleven, the Bible teaches us stories that most of us have grown up hearing in Sunday School such as the creation account, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and the flood and the tower of Babel. In this book of beginnings, we are shown some of Gods characteristics; we see that God is love and He showed His love by creating us and the world, on the other extreme, we also see the wrath of God. Through these teachings, we are able to see that God ultimately in control and holds everything in His balance. The stories of Genesis aren’t just stories; they are real life accounts that can help build and shape a worldview on things regarding the natural world, human identity, human relationships and civilization.