Human Nature From Gen 1-2

It’s fascinating that each creation story hints at a common purpose for humans. In Genesis 1, humans are given

In the second chapter of Genesis, it tells of how God created the heavens and the earth. God then formed man out of the dust of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life. Then He created the trees, the rivers, the animals

Now that there is sun, sky, dry land, vegetation, day and night, God goes to work creating what we today would refer to as living creatures. On day 5 God creates living creatures in the water and winged birds to fill the sky (Genesis 1:20-23). Then on day 6 God creates livestock, creatures that crawl, and all wildlife (Genesis 1:24-25). It is also day 6 of creation when God says “let us create man in Our image according to Our Likeness” (Genesis 1:26, HCSB). The words “Us” and “Our” brings to the forefront the Triune God, living in perfect harmony as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The ordering of God’s creation is perfect to not only give us humans the most beautiful playground ever imagined, it is also well thought out, orderly, and made perfectly to sustain

Proponents of this view regard the text of Gen 1:1-2:3 as a narrative text and so they interpret it literally . . .. They regard days of the creation week as solar days, around 24 hours in length. The fact that the word “days” is preceded by an ordinal number and is accompanied by the phrase “evening and morning” supports this interpretation. During this creative week, God brought into existence the entire universe, including the earth and all forms of plant, animal, and human life that inhabited it (181).

“ In the beginning God created the heavens and Earth.” Genesis 1:1 EVS. By the third day God said “let the land produce vegetation. Genesis 1:9 ESV. It was the spoken word of God, that allowed life to start here on Earth.The fifth day “brought creatures from the sea and in the air” Genesis 1:20-22 EVS. and the sixth day God created “ livestock and creatures that moved along the ground.” Genesis 1:24-25 ESV. Life began for man “when God formed man from the dust in the ground and breathed life into his nostrils thus becoming a living creature.” Genesis 2:7 ESV. Only man would receive the “breath of life” from the Creator, thus giving him a spirit to separate him from the beast of the field. Man also has

8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed” (Genesis 2:7, 8). In order to develop a close, personal relationship with God is to spend time alone with Him and Adam had that opportunity since he and God were the only ones existing together at that time. Adam was given the authority over the animals and had close communication with God. This made him the “man of the household” but ultimately, the messenger of God to take care of his family. Adam needed to be without Eve to learn to become accountable to only God. God had assigned Adam the first “job” of the world that was to name all the animals and the first instruction to guide the present humanity (being one at that time). A relationship between God and Adam began to

Creation was made so God could share His abundant love with mankind. For a while, everything was perfect. Adam and Eve, the first humans, were able to walk

Humankind, man and female, were created and placed in the Garden of Eden, a land of peace, protection, and provision. Out of the ground, God brought up every tree, but in the center of the garden there existed two trees – the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. God gave dominion over the land and

A serpent convinces Eve into plucking a single piece of fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and Adam and Eve’s eyes were immediately opened, which is something that God would rather keep secret, therefore, He would have control over their innocence. As a result of this, God disciplines Eve for eating the forbidden fruit: “I shall give you great labor in childbearing; with labor you will bear children” (19). After reading this consequence, it depicts the fact that childbirth is excruciating, since He chooses it as a discipline for the rest of her life, and every woman to follow. The guilt of this event also serves as a separate punishment—the weight of knowing that she created an unwanted disruption for the rest of mankind is

In Genesis, God created the world by simply speaking it into existence. God fabricated man in His own image, setting man above the rest of creation. Mankind was the finishing touch on God’s creation, and God said that creation was completed with the existence of man. The Bible reveals how God desires an intimate relationship with man, since God, Adam, and Eve walked with each other in the cool of the day (Genesis 3:8, NIV).

Our Father created the earth and filled it with plants, animals and water. (Gen 1:1) He then introduced humans to the earth. (Gen 1:27) The chapter of Genesis illustrates how all creations of The Lord need to rely on one another for survival. In order for humanity to produce healthy and plentiful crops to feed to their families, farmers must work hard to keep their soil healthy and crops watered.

“It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.”

My central belief about human beings is that each and every one of us are created different and unique. The potential that humans possess is unlimited and I believe that we are truly capable of anything if we are willing to work towards it. Each human is responsible for their own actions and therefore responsible for the path that their life takes. Through-out life humans develop and grow through personal experiences, environmental surroundings and watching the path that others choose to take in life. A person cannot truly understand a situation in its entirety until they have the chance to experience it for themselves.

The Book of Genesis opens the Hebrew Bible with the tale of creation. God, a soul floating over a vacant, watery void, makes the world by talking into the dimness and calling into being light, sky, land, vegetation, and living animals through the span of six days. Every day, he stops to articulate his works "good" (1:4). On the 6th day, God announces his aim to influence a being in his "to claim picture," and he makes mankind (1:26). He designs a man out of clean and structures a lady out of the man's rib. God puts the two individuals, Adam and Eve, in the pure garden of Eden, urging them to reproduce and to appreciate the world completely, and precluding them to eat from the tree of the learning of good and evil. In the garden, Eve experiences a tricky serpent who persuades her to eat the tree's illegal natural product, guaranteeing her that she won't endure if she does as such. Eve imparts the natural product to Adam, and the two are instantly loaded with disgrace and regret. While strolling in the garden, God finds their defiance. In the wake of reviling the serpent, he turns and reviles the couple. Eve, he says, will be reviled to endure excruciating labor and should submit to her significant other's power. Adam is reviled to drudge and till the fields for sustenance. The two are along these lines ousted from Eden. Conveyed into the world, Adam and Eve bring forth two children, Cain and Abel. Cain, a rancher, offers God a bit of his products one day as a give up, just to

“God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them, saying: "Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that move on the earth." 29 God also said: "See, I give you every seed-bearing plant all over the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit on it to be your food; 30 and to all the animals of the land, all the birds of the air, and all the living creatures that crawl on the ground, I give all the green plants for food." And so it happened. 31 God looked at everything he had made, and he found it very good. Evening came, and morning followed - the sixth day.”