Genesis
Genesis is the story of how the earth was created by someone named God. The author of this story is Moses. In Genesis, Moses depicts God spending six days creating the earth. God creates the water, the sky, the light, and eventually he creates man. He creates a man named Adam, and he puts him in his own garden, called the garden of Eden. Next, god decides that Adam should not be alone, so he takes one of Adam's ribs and creates a woman named Eve. Moses makes God seem almost like a father figure to Adam and Eve. In the story God creates man out of his own image, so he is obviously going to have some connection to man. God also gives man rule over all the fish of the sea, the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves. This means that god is bestowing a good amount of trust in man. He might even trust them too much for their own good in this story. Adam and Eve live together in the garden of Eden with only one very specific rule from God. God tells them that they cannot eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and if they do eat from it God says, "thou shalt surely die" (Genesis 2-17). God
God also said to Adam, "Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return"(Genesis 3-18,19). God said to Eve, "I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee"(Genesis 3-15). In his story, Moses writes that God first punishes the serpent for telling Eve that it was acceptable to eat from the tree. God's punishments for Adam and Eve seem somewhat generous. When Adam's life was over he would be returned to the ground from which he was created. God comes into the garden and he punishes Adam and Eve for eating from the tree. God says to the serpent, " Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life" (Genesis 3-14). The serpent tells Eve that she won't die if she eats from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The punishments that God handed out to Adam and Eve were very fair. Their punishment is well deserved because God had given them fair warning about the tree. This meant that Eve would desire her husband, and she would conceive children much more easily. He had told them from the very beginning that if they ever ate from the tree then they would die. Adam was the last to be punished by god. This way at least they get a chance to live and experience different things rather than dying so young. She would also have to obey her husband from now on because he ruled over her.
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