GTBOOKS 191 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Book Of Deuteronomy
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2 creation stories: climax of an extremely systematic order by god creates humanity after creating the rest of the world and he creates man in the image of god . Men and women are created together: starts at a point where there are no plants or humans. First he waters the dry earth, then he makes man from dust (adam), makes the garden, puts man in the garden, grows the garden, and tells him he can eat of anything except the tress of knowledge of. God creates eve to be adam"s helper from a rib taken from adam while he is sleeping. In this creation humans were not created as sexual beings, women are an afterthought. In genesis, god seems to be a much more powerful human ruler, different from the god that people believe him to be today. Also, he does not seem to be omniscient, and makes threats that he does not carry out.
