The Creation of Adam

beginning, He made it just how He wanted it. Adam and Eve were perfect in mind and body, formed in the image of God, and the different facets of their relationship reveal to us not only His pre-sin, ideal plan for relationships and marriage, but also His character. My first point is that Adam needed to experience a “not good” situation so that he would learn to value Eve in the deepest sense. In the beginning, God made the exquisite garden of Eden and placed Adam, the first human, inside of it.…

Genesis, Chapter 2, gives a detailed account of the creation of man and woman. Although the first relationship in scripture was God and Adam, Adam had a desire for relationship with his own kind, “but for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him (Gen. 2:20b).” God created Eve as a helper. One commentary explains the relationship between Adam and Eve this way: God decided to make a helper suitable (lit. “a helper corresponding to him,” or “a corresponding helper”) for the man (v. 18).…

The creation of the world and how we got here on planet Earth has been an ongoing debate for centuries. The clashing of heads between naturalists who are described as people who believe the Earth was created due to evolution and creationism which is defined as Christians who believe that God created the world. For naturalists, science is always the answer for all questions of creation while for creationists a higher presence is responsible. Naturalism and Creationism theories both have an…

sense if they were anything other than 24-hour days. For example, the Bible mentions that on the seventh day, God rested from his creation. If, as some suppose, the days represent periods of thousands or millions of years, this would mean that God very well may still be resting. This would support a Deist worldview that God created the world and then abandoned His creation and is now idle. Of course, as we have seen God work throughout the Bible and history, we know this is not true. Besides,…

The fall of Adam and Eve is one of the most widely used biblical stories to justify the misogynistic treatment of women as subordinate to men. In “Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women” by Aemilia Lanyer, Lanyer reinterprets the Fall to support her declaration of equality, as well as relates it to the biblical story of Pilate’s condemnation of Jesus to crucifixion. In contrast, Book IX of Paradise Lost by John Milton carries the same misogynistic arguments customarily used. Whereas “Eve’s Apology”…

much in common, but, so much difference. In both stories the similarities were different, but the same in many ways. In the Iroquois creation story there was a Skyworld which is similar to the Garden of Eden in the Genesis story. In the Skyworld there was a special tree which no one was to touch. In the Garden of Eden there was a tree of knowledge that God told Adam and Eve not to eat of it or they would surely die. In Skyworld, the pregnant woman told her husband to retrieve a root of the…

Genesis, Eve took the apple from the serpent and Adam and Eve consumed it. They both have sinned and established a wrong doing in front of God. God then asks them in verse eleven “Have you eaten from the tree of witch I commanded you not to eat?” God said this, already knowing the answer to his question. Adam and Eve both made excuses therefore admitting their sin to God. God then punishes Adam and Eve giving Eve pain in Childbearing and to man (Adam) he says that he will have to do labor or…

Mary Shelley in her book, Frankenstein, uses various images and detailed diction to introduce the perception that the creature is human, and expresses his humanity through eloquent speech, thoughts, and caring behavior to find his place among nature. In the beginning of the book he is depicted as a monster, a freak of nature, an abomination. Towards the middle, portrayed as a gentle giant, emotional, compassionate, knowledgeable, understanding. Towards the end, purposeless, like father like son…

The creation story I decided to compare with the two creation stories if Genesis is the African Bushmen creation myth. In this story, humans originally lived underground with the Lord of All Life; Kaang. While the humans were living in bliss, Kaang was above ground creating the rest of the world. He eventually brought up the humans and instructed them to never build fire before he left the humans and animals to live on their own in harmony. Since the humans had never experienced darkness before,…

before the creation of the world and the fall of mankind. He hones in on not only the main events, but also on the characters’ thoughts, temptations, and conversations. He portrays Adam and Eve’s relationship in a way which is not portrayed in the Bible. He portrays Adam as someone who not only knows the future of the world, but is hopeful of it despite all the evil it holds. He portrays Eve as someone who has many faults and a sin nature even before the fall. The way Milton portrays Adam…