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Genesis of Man.
Classical Views about the origin of man and more.
Adam and Eve, according to the myth narrated by Abraham, the first man and woman, God fashions Adam from dust and places him in the Garden of Eden, where he is to have dominion over the plants and animals. Eve is later created to be his companion. God places a tree in the garden which he prohibits Adam and Eve from eating its fruit. However, a serpent tricks them into eating from it, and they are subsequently expelled from the garden for disobeying God, who visits upon them and their progeny numerous hardships as punishment.
Interpretations and beliefs regarding Adam and Eve and the story revolving around them vary across religions and sects.
Yahweh fashions a man from the dust and blows the breath of life into his nostrils, then plants a garden and causes to grow in the middle of the garden the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the Tree of life. God sets the man in the garden "to work it and watch over it," permitting him to eat from all the trees in the garden except the Tree of Knowledge, "for on the day you eat of it you shall surely die."
God brings the animals to the man for him to name. None of them are found to be a suitable companion for the man, so God causes the man to sleep and creates a woman from a part of his body, English-language tradition describes the part as a rib. Describing her as "bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh," the man calls his new help-mate "woman" "for this one was taken from a man" . This sundering, a making of two from one, predicates reunification in marriage, in which two will be made one: "On account of this a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his woman."
Fall of man
The serpent, "more wise than any beast of the field," tempts the woman to eat "of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden", telling her that "Ye shall not surely die" and it will make her to be as god, knowing good and evil. After some
Classical Views about the origin of man and more.
Adam and Eve, according to the myth narrated by Abraham, the first man and woman, God fashions Adam from dust and places him in the Garden of Eden, where he is to have dominion over the plants and animals. Eve is later created to be his companion. God places a tree in the garden which he prohibits Adam and Eve from eating its fruit. However, a serpent tricks them into eating from it, and they are subsequently expelled from the garden for disobeying God, who visits upon them and their progeny numerous hardships as punishment.
Interpretations and beliefs regarding Adam and Eve and the story revolving around them vary across religions and sects.
Yahweh fashions a man from the dust and blows the breath of life into his nostrils, then plants a garden and causes to grow in the middle of the garden the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the Tree of life. God sets the man in the garden "to work it and watch over it," permitting him to eat from all the trees in the garden except the Tree of Knowledge, "for on the day you eat of it you shall surely die."
God brings the animals to the man for him to name. None of them are found to be a suitable companion for the man, so God causes the man to sleep and creates a woman from a part of his body, English-language tradition describes the part as a rib. Describing her as "bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh," the man calls his new help-mate "woman" "for this one was taken from a man" . This sundering, a making of two from one, predicates reunification in marriage, in which two will be made one: "On account of this a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his woman."
Fall of man
The serpent, "more wise than any beast of the field," tempts the woman to eat "of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden", telling her that "Ye shall not surely die" and it will make her to be as god, knowing good and evil. After some