Similarities Between Genesis 3 And 4

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Genesis 3 and 4 are how things got to the way they are. God’s wisdom is ordering creation by calling humanity to cooperate and follow His vocation; to serve, cultivate, and to care. Although, a cunning serpent always gets in the way to strew the ability to manipulate and dominate, creating never ending hills of destruction and creation. This is demonstrated first in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve, there is a tree in the middle which God declares the Tree of Life, representing God’s wisdom. Eve believes that there is another tree in the garden, The Knowledge of Good and Evil, that is the actual center. Therefore, with the deception of the serpent, Eve goes against God’s asking and eats the fruit of the tree, in order to gain knowledge. …show more content…
God saw every generation get more and more evil, regretted his decisions, and decided to make the world anew with a great flood that would swallow it whole. He called upon Noah to build an arc and allow his family and a few of each animal to enter so they may flourish again in a new creation. After 150 days, God called off the chaos and abyss and remembered every living thing, promising them a covenant: “I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man’s heart is evil from its youth” (Genesis 9:21). God creates a new garden and creation whilst Noah plants a vineyard like Adam had. Although, this doesn’t last long because libido dominandi returns once again inside Noah’s son, who rapes and abuses him. Both of these stories can be seen in Genesis 11, the story of Babel, who used one language to silence and leave the slaves out of their false unity. They attempted to build “a tower whose top will reach into heaven” (Genesis 11:4), but God came down because He heard the cries of the slave laborers and He “scattered them (the architectures) abroad from there over the face of the earth” (Genesis 11:8) like He had done to the people of the earth during the flood. The slave laborers were like Noah because they were unaffected by the

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