It also gives us a very monotheistic view of God to oppose the idea of many gods or that there is no God. Clearly it is one God created here in Genesis. It also provides us with the beginning of redemptive history for mankind; he fall of man and his need for salvation (NIV 2-3). Summary: Genesis in its Greek meaning means “origins” and the Hebrew word is translated “In the Beginning (Marty 8). Genesis chapter one takes us through the beginning of the universe.
God made the Garden of Eden a place where all of Adams and Eves desire for sustaining life could be met. God’s only restriction for Adam and Eve was not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. (Genesis 2-17). Eve was approached by a serpent that had persuaded her to eat the fruit from the tree that God told them not to. Then Eve talked Adam into eating the fruit from that same tree.
As he said that in fact evil comes from angels and human beings who chose deliberately to deny and disobey what God had taught them, by turning away from him and what he had wished for mankind. Augustine believed that every human being was an offshoot of Adam and hence that every single person in the world is guilty of evil, this is as it was Adam who committed ultimate sin in the Garden of Eden. Augustine believed very strongly that evil should be punished. Therefore it was Augustine’s theodicy that said that natural evil in the world is a fitting punishment for moral wickedness. He strongly believed that evil is solely a result of human rebellion.
The serpent represented evil in both, the Bible and Gilgamesh; however the outcome may not have ended that way for each character. The serpent is one of the oldest and most widespread mythological symbols. They are generally characterized as beings and officiators of evil. The two stories tell of defeat and success, by the actions of two same but different serpents. The serpent is first heard of in Genesis, the first book of the bible.
In Genesis, evil was punished for deceiving Adam and Eve. The serpent manipulated Adam and Eve and changed Gods words. Since there was no good it was an unbalanced world. In Iroquois, there was a balanced world between good and evil. Sapling was the good one, the one that did everything just as should, said what he meant, and meant what he said.
The gods created the heaven, hell, sun, and the moon. With the belief of faith the understanding of the divine drama of the beginning is Genesis would be hard for one to get, there are questions that still remain unanswered like how long did it take the creation of earth? Or was God's days the same as ours or even longer?. Then God took Adam the man and eve the woman and placed them in Eden to take care of it and commanded them saying “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (Genesis 2:16-17. The story goes on where the devil known as the serpent, trick eve to eat from the tree and makes her convince Adam to do the same.
By piecing these religious aspects together, a unique cinematic foundation is established. The evil that surrounds the primal creatures in the film demonstrates the degenerative effect of the human self as a result of sin. The presence of sin is an essential concept in Christianity and Judaism, but what exactly is sin? In a biblical sense, “whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness” (1 John 3:4). The law that is mention in this scripture is established by God; therefore, sin can essentially means transgression or forsaking God’s law.
Third, Hindu has no concept of original sin. Lastly, Hinduism dosen´t have a devil who disguised itself into serpent to tempt Eve, thus resulting for them to be exiled. Lord Brahma properly asked Manu and Shatrupa to make or establishes theirselves on the planet Earth. After this episode the happenings in the bible and puranic story matches. They multiplied and became what of us today.
This story tells us of Adam and Eve and how mankind came to be like we are today, much like the Hebrew Bible. It tells us of their innocence in the Garden of Eden and how they quickly lost it due to Satan’s persuasiveness. Paradise Lost tells us how Eve was betrayed by a serpent-Satan- and how eating from the forbidden fruit tree made them lose their innocence. Once their innocence was lost, Adam and Eve covered their naked bodies and were sent out of the Garden of Eden. God told Adam of the sins that were in the future, and though rather than being scared, he was more looking on the bright side of his and Eve’s future together.
Once Adam and Eve ate the fruit they understood the difference between right and wrong and understood they had disobeyed God. God sent them out of the Garden of Eden instantly. God’s punishment was not physical but intellectual. The Egyptians and Babylonians believed in multiple gods while the Hebrews believed in one God. Each religion had moral codes, or laws, they had to abide by; the Babylonians followed Hammurabi’s code and the Hebrews followed the Ten Commandments.