The Role Of Evil In Genesis

After a close analysis of Genesis in the Hebrew bible’s story of Adam and Eve, some people may ask, did the punishment fit the crime or was the Lord God being harsh and brutal with his punishments? This can be argued by many people because Adam, Eve and the serpent committed a sin. Adam and Eve without knowledge of what a sin is committed the act thinking everything would be okay, but what they didn 't know was that the Lord God was offended by their disobedience and so he punished them the way he saw fit. The serpent also was included in the punishment because of his wrongful doings. It was a harsh punishment because they were two innocent individuals and were mislead by the serpent. They didn 't know what sin really was until they committed the crime and were punished for it. The Lord God is the supreme being in the story where he has absolute power and expects obedience from his creatures or subjects. The Lord God created the universe, the earth, the land, the seas, plants, and all living creatures. The Lord God also created Adam and Eve and placed them in Eden, which was a beautiful land with beautiful creatures, fresh water and many edible fruit trees. The Lord God had only one rule, he instructed them not eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge. Sadly, Adam and Eve couldn 't obey the only rule in Eden and were punished. However, Adams and Eves disobedience came with a harsh punishment for each.

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.

God comes to Cain to confront him with the responsibility and Cain denies him. God comes not to find the truth, but to allow Cain the opportunity to admit the truth. Never being able to admit his sin and receive God's blessing, he receives a curse. His farming shall not flourish as it once did, and he must wander and be a fugitive. God puts a mark on Cain as one of deserving of death yet one chosen by God to live. One interpretation of the mark is that God believes death is too good for Cain and punishes him by making him live with what he has to do. It can also be looked at as allowing Cain an open door through which he can return whenever he is ready to face things more honestly.

When God proclaims that he favors Abel's gift over Cain's, Cain becomes angry and jealous towards Abel and he eventually kills him. Although God is fully aware of what has transpired, He asks Cain where Abel is, and Cain answers Him untruthfully saying, "Am I my brother's keeper?" (Genesis 4:2-5). After God reveals to Cain that he knows of Abel's murder, God banishes Cain to another part of the land and places a mark on him so that no man will kill him.

The dire consequences that resulted from the fall had a very widespread impact for the human nature in ways the would last. The first widespread affect which the human nature was that sin became a part of the of the human nature due to the fact that they disobeyed God. This was a radical consequence as humans originally were made in the image of God and were free from sin until their disobedience resulted in their nature. The second consequence that was very radical was that death entered into the world as a result of their disobedience. This not only impacted Adam and Eve but also other humans since the legacy of death carried on to others such as their own children when Cain killed Abel. So ultimately, the fall mentioned within Genesis had very widespread implications for the nature of humans (Diffey, 2015).

Adam and Able were unwillingly favored by their fathers, which as a result, caused jealousy to enter their brother’s minds. When Cyrus (Adam’s father) said, “Call it bad luck, but Adam is stuck being his dad's favorite. The point is, Adam doesn't ask for Cyrus's favoritism, and he certainly doesn't want his brother's jealousy either. But Charles sees Adam as the thing standing in between him and his dad's love. (Steinbeck,), it left Adam in confusion. Adam did not want his father’s favoritism nor did he want his brothers jealousy, but he couldn’t do anything about it. As a result of the jealousy within his brother, Charles, he had to take Adam out so he could get some his father’s love. In the Book of Genesis, Cain murdered Able over the same type of jealousy that Charles had on his brother. Instead of both of them being mad at their fathers they choose to be jealous towards Adam and Able. This is the major difference with Adam and Able, Cain kills Able, but Charles did not slay Adam. The root cause of the incident was the unfair distribution of

Cain and Abel (4:1-16): Both brothers gave God an offering to please Him. But God didn’t care for Cain’s offering and favored Abel’s instead. Because Cain had a hard time controlling his anger, he went out and killed his brother out of sheer jealousy and rage. When he returned, he lied to God and said that he had no idea where his brother could have gone. God was very upset and cursed Cain to be a helpless wanderer and for his crops to be fruitless for the rest of his life.

Evil is said to have come from the off spring of Adam, who was the

They perhaps deserved to be punished as God explicitly told Adam not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge. However, this punishment is far too dreadful; this is because numerous Christians believe that this original must be redeemed from birth, and this implies that we are born into sin that we must redeem and that our level of life was at its peak when living in the Garden of Eden. How misguided! A more logical philosophy is that we are born without sins. Yes, they deserved punishment, but no, they did not deserve lifelong pain. Frankly, one can see Genesis as out-dated in modern society; we are far too advanced to believe this story. In a moral sense, we know that humankind is far too equal now in comparison to the centuries of harsh patriarchy and social classes. Even the Indian Caste System has now been abolished legally and we are making significant steps towards removing its effect in

Another unique element of the Cain and Abel rivalry and its tragic aftermath is that God personally punished Cain for the murder of Abel, and sent him into exile. But God also showed some mercy to Cain which protected him from harm at the hands of others by putting a mark upon him. The narrator leaves him as one who has been placed under the very special care of God. Hence, the story ought not to be interpreted in basically negative terms, but rather as the activity of one who lives under divine protection and care. (Abingdon, 375)

Cain also provided a worship offering to God. Nonetheless, Cain’s presented offering wasn’t acceptable. Hence, an envious spirit became birthed within Cain, and Cain murdered his brother, Abel, because God accepted Abel’s worship offering but didn’t accept Cain’s offering. God became displeased with Cain and vowed that the ground would no longer yield its fruit towards Cain. In other words, God is not honored with murder.

We were meant to just guard Eden, protect the humans, from each other for in Eden were things that would destroy the humans and in return the humans would destroy Eden and all that was created for them to live. The only rule they had was to not eat from the Tree of Knowledge and for a while all was peaceful and perfect, until one day we found Eve at the base of the tree with the forbidden fruit in her hand. As the others took Adam and Eve out of Eden and to the feet of Father I saw a snake crawling across the ground. When the snake saw me he changed into Lucifer, Fathers favorite and most beautiful angel, and then he grinned at me.

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

Its impossible to reflect on the origins of evil without bringing up the concept of free will. God created man with this idea of choice; the choice to believe and obey, or the choice to disobey. It was this free will that allowed Adam and Eve to fall from their initial glory and introduce evil and suffering into the world. We can justify a large amount of sustained suffering by acknowledging that it actually benefits us and is not incompatible with God's loving nature. We learn lessons both physically and spiritually that allows us to grow and mature according to God. Some suffering is used to spark revival or for a great advancement in his kingdom, cause after all we're

It says: "So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him... On this account be glad, you heavens and you who reside in them! Woe for the earth and for the sea, because the Devil has come down to you, having great anger, knowing that he has a short period of time.” I believe there is evil. Evil, though, does not always mean wrongdoing .The definition of evil is of a wide range. God brought calamity or evil upon Adam and his offspring. But God is not to blame, he did so as a penalty for Adam 's disobedience. As for pain and suffering in the world, God permits it but is not the one causing it. 1 John 5:19 says "The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one." I believe that in Genesis, when the wicked one, Satan approached Eve, he actually challenged the rightfulness and righteousness of God 's sovereignty. To illustrate: Imagine a teacher is explaining how to solve a math problem when he is interrupted by a student; implying that the teacher is not capable, the rebellious student tells the class that he himself is right. Some students believe him and become rebellious. What should the teacher do? If he throws the rebels out of class the remaining students may wonder if the teacher really is wrong, loosing respect for the teacher. I believe God by