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    perfection so everyone modeling their lives after Him would make sense. The Bible describes God as compassionate, merciful, slow to anger, love, etc. Before sin, Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden which could be considered a utopia today. They spent time with God every day and lived their lives based off of God. Because God was the center, Adam and Eve’s relationship with each other and God was

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    seen in 4 stories, which are Original Sin, Cain and Abel, Noah’s Ark and Tower of Babel. First, the original sin. God allowed Adam and Eve to eat from any tree except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil located in the Garden of Eden. The serpent enticed Eve to eat from the forbidden tree. Eve gave the fruit from the tree to Adam and they both ate it. The story “Adam and Christ” relates to the original story because after people sin in both story, they got punishments from God. In this story

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    Finding out one’s fault only makes the thinker feel guilty about their own fault. Good people put their needs before their own, and instead help others by displaying kindness and compassion. Others may feel the things they deem right is the way to go, none the less we judge a book by its cover and don’t take the good from it. Everyone possesses an evil trait that may not be shown but it’s within the human being. The serpent can be the devil in disguise and persuade Eve to eat the apple off the

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    The three different periods all had their own styles of painting for their time period. Painting was one of the main forms of art that never changed through the cultures. The only thing that changes is the way each of the cultures preform the art. One of the pieces of Islamic art is a picture called “A Glimpse of Paradise”. The painting was a picture of the Prophet Muhammad standing in a garden with a bird on his hand. Muhammad also had a golden halo that was around his head. This was not a realistic

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    Nicole Hewitt English 102B June 4, 2018 Final Paper Samuel Johnson’s The History of Rasselas Prince of Abissinia depicts a young prince named Rasselas who lives a seemingly happy and gilded life in his Abyssinian birthplace Happy Valley. The Happy Valley is an imaginary place in Africa filled with a diverse range of flowers and numerous pastures with animals peacefully dwelling, that is “wide, fruitful, and supplied its inhabitants with the necessaries of life” (8). Though this paradise that is

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    The story of Adam and Eve relates the tale of how God’s creatures, Adam and Eve, were deviated from their path through the Devils temptation of granting them knowledge. From that moment on, theorist believe that from Adam and Eve’s transgression it caused a never ending spiral that we, men and women, will ultimately fall to the hands of temptation. Temptation causes one to act on impulse or be manipulated into believing what others believe is right through the act of promises. Dave Eggers writer

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    teasing Adam and Eve with the idea of eternal paradise. God knew of the inevitable original sin and even still he gave Adam and Eve a taste of paradise. If indeed God loved them as much as he supposedly did, wouldn't he have saved them the torment of having to surrender a true heaven on earth because they made one little mistake? God knew that by giving man free will he would also be giving them the opportunity to lose everything that they held dear to them. Also, if the will bestowed on Adam were so

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    become as gods knowing good and evil” (160). This is a sign of the temptation of knowledge. Eve knows that God told them not to eat fruit, yet once the serpent mentions having knowledge, she eats the fruit. She not only eats the fruit, but she offers Adam the fruit which he also eats. As a consequence for disobeying God, God cursed humankind and “all beasts of the field” (161). Some of the consequences were women and men would always have hostility and animosity toward each other, women would experience

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    When Eve was created by God and brought to Adam, she was to help him in taking care of the Garden of Eden which they were supposed to cultivate and watch over as they feed on the different types of fruits available at their disposal (Bal, 1985). However, God had instructed Adam and Eve that they shall not eat the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the Garden of Eden. The serpent came to Eve and arouse

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    The tale of Adam and Eve, an infamous account in the book of Genesis, depicts man’s original disobedience in eating of the Tree of Knowledge and serves as humankind’s first archetype of the innate relationship between lost innocence and the attainment of knowledge. As portrayed in the story, God’s severe punishment of Adam and Eve for consuming the forbidden fruit insinuates that it is wrong to desire knowledge, more specifically, the knowledge of humanity’s potential for good and evil. The resultant

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