Throughout the book of Genesis, there are various stories that show the interaction and relationship that God had with the human race when they were created. Reading the first 10 chapters of the book of Genesis, you encounter stories about the creation of the world, the destruction and forms of sanctions imposed by God due to man’s wickedness, and the various demonstrations of God’s forgiveness for humanity. We’ll be seeing how these themes are developed throughout the first 10 chapters of Genesis in a way where they first appear in chapters 1 through 4. but then continue on to reappear in chapters 5 through 10. In chapters 1 through 4 of Genesis, the themes of God being the sole creator of creation as well as humans and how the act of wickedness caused for God to take measures of punishment towards humankind is unraveled. This can be seen in chapter 2 where the disobedience of the command God
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Other forms of punishment can be seen when women were introduced to pain and suffering while delivering children, found in chapter 3 verse 16, “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children;..” as a form of punishment for disobeying the order that God had given to both Adam and Eve (KJV). Another sanction is found when men now had to work the fields for food in order to survive since God changed their alimentation and means for survival which, is found in verses 17 through 19 of the same chapter, “And unto Adam he said…;cursed is the ground for thy sake...” (KJV). Not only did God punish man and woman but also the snake. Furthermore God cursed it. It now ate the dirt, crawled instead of walk like it was accustomed to, and was threatened by men,
Other forms of punishment can be seen when women were introduced to pain and suffering while delivering children, found in chapter 3 verse 16, “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children;..” as a form of punishment for disobeying the order that God had given to both Adam and Eve (KJV). Another sanction is found when men now had to work the fields for food in order to survive since God changed their alimentation and means for survival which, is found in verses 17 through 19 of the same chapter, “And unto Adam he said…;cursed is the ground for thy sake...” (KJV). Not only did God punish man and woman but also the snake. Furthermore God cursed it. It now ate the dirt, crawled instead of walk like it was accustomed to, and was threatened by men,