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The Creation Of God In Genesis: The Book Of Genesis

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Genesis is a paradoxical and problematic text that explain how the world was created. The book of genesis was written by Moses who was as well the author of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and a big part of book of Deuteronomio that are the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. In the chapters One through three of the book of Genesis, the story of world creation and humanity formation is reported. Chapter one of genesis, start telling the story of the creation of heaven and earth, just by God’s voice. The world establishment story continues until verse twenty-six of the first chapter of genesis that is when the humanity was created by God and this story continues until verse twenty-five of the second chapter of Genesis. On the third chapter of Genesis …show more content…

The character of God in Genesis, has a self of an organized and detailed personality, because takes care of minimums details on the creation of the universe. The second main point in this book of Genesis, is about the creation of man and woman. In the book of Genesis are present to different stories about the creation of humanity, one is the priestly story and the second one is the Jahwish version. Both stories disagree in important parts about the establishment of humanity. Priestly version of the creation of humanity, started talking about what God said when was creating the man “Let us make man in our image.” Organization is the language in this story because everything was created by God’s voice. As well, God is an active character, but he is not physically present in the story. In this version, God created man and woman at the same time “God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created them.” In this story man and woman are equal and have the same power of subdue everything on earth. Also, when God created woman in this story she was named by him and has an original name given by her …show more content…

In the chapter three of Genesis, the story about sin is narrated by Moses using a snake as an figure of the evil. In this tale, the woman was tainted by a snake with the objective of making her to fall and broke God’s law, “And the serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die.” Subsequently, of her act of eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, her knowledge was clear about what was right and what was wrong making her to feel ashamed of her naked. Adan participated as well of this act of sin, as a result of eating fruit offered by Eva to him. Chapter number three, talk about the problem of evil in the world and how it was introduced to the universe. Those three main ideas in the book of Genesis are the bases for foundational myths of western culture. The relationship of humanity with the universe, the relationship with the society and the relationship between man and woman is explained by this traditional religious book. Furthermore, Genesis is a book that have figurative language, enigmas and differences that confuse readers, making this book difficult to understand. The creation of the world have been still as a mystery, and each tradition has it own story about how world was created, doing the story of the foundation of universe and world more

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