The Garden of Eden Essay

Free will is the ability to make choices that are not controlled by fate or God. Every man posses this power. According to the Bible, free will is a God given thing. It was given to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Often times, fictional characters are written to have free will. Those are the character that we find more relatable. One of those characters is Oedipus. In Sophocles’ Oedipus The King, Oedipus becomes a victim of his own free will; a parallel to the story of mankind as detailed in…

Jim Jarmusch’s intriguing film “Only Lovers Left Alive” depicts the lives of two hundred centuries old lovers. In the Film, Adam and Eve have lived apart for some time, however that all changed when Eve felt that Adam was unhappy. As a result, she decided to take a flight from Tangier to Detroit. Upon her arrival, Adam and Eve courtly greeted each other. In addition, before Adam and Eve’s reunion Adam had been living in the ruins of Detroit creating his favorite art, music. During his stay…

The story of a creation cast down to a (both literal and metaphorical) hell is the basis of both John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. It is of no coincidence that the novel Victor’s monster comes upon and reads is Paradise Lost - from it the monster is able to find some kinship in a fictional tortured soul much like him who lost the safety of their creator’s realm and was thus left to essentially rot alone. The monster’s story echoes in many ways the story of Adam and the…

Throughout the diverse cultures and religions in the world, there are many different creation myths. Each culture has their own creation myth and there are many similarities, or motifs, within these creation myths. The three creation myth motifs that I thought were the most important were humans being made perfectly in the first attempt, an angry god punishing humans or another god, and women being created after men. Several cultures’ creation myths describe humans as being made perfectly in…

There have been many debates on creation and our existence. When did life begin and what started it all? After all, we’re here. We breathe air in. We make decisions that spur action. We love vigorously and can be hurt deeply. Human emotions are part of everyday life and yet we live without regard to how we have these emotions in the first place. An unbiased look at Genesis 1-11 clearly shows the reason why. God is a loving God and He created us for relationship. Natural World…

That’s what happened in the garden of Eden. But prior to this in-cident occurring Lucifer, was expelled or as we like to say kicked out of heaven because he wanted to be God. He was created by God and he wanted to be God to be worshipped as God was being worshipped by the angels he had created. But God is God and he will not share his glory with another. Earth became corrupt because of the pronouncement of God upon it. Man would now have to live by the sweat of his brow. No longer could he walk…

Eve’s not Sorry: Stating the case for Adam’s Innocence According to the bible, Adam and Eve were the first humans to ever exist and live in the Earth. God created and placed them in the Garden of Eden, where they broke a promise they had made to the all-powerful. This mistake would change the course of all mankind’s existence for the worse. Through history, there has been a debate to settle whose fault it was. In “Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women”, Amelia Lanier tried to persuade the readers…

always told myself “If I had been Adam or Eve, there is no way I would have disobeyed God after being so closely united to Him”. But then I think “So why do I keep sinning after every time I receive the Eucharist? Adam and Eve are created in the garden of Eden and everything is in accord with everything else. Adam and Eve are alive because the divine breath of God is in them, giving them life and man is to be co-creators with God, having dominion over all the plants and creatures ordering all…

Wow, I would never have thought I’d die at the age of sixteen. Well at least I don’t have to go to school tomorrow! I searched around the Garden of Eden; there was no shortage of sweet coconuts or juicy mangos, but where was everyone else? Could this be hell and not heaven? I mean hell doesn’t necessarily have to be a fiery cave where there’s a guy in a red cape prodding you with his trident. I heard about this sort of thing, my mum told me. She said hell is…

humanity for his people. These two books of Genesis and Jonah gives us examples how humanity change when Adam and Eve cast the first Sin in Genesis 3, however in Genesis 2 God gave humanity a chance by providing them everything they needed in the Garden of Eden. Jonah disobeyed God until he realize God has a greater purpose for him. First, I will explain why Adam and Eve is an important character about humanity and God’s Mercy in Genesis. Both Adam and Eve were innocent because they do not know…