The Realistic Creation Story Growing up going to a Catholic school, and being a very religious person I have studied, and read The Bible, I have gone as far as tattooing Psalm 23:4 on my body. So, you could say that I have a personal connection to what is written in The Bible. Saying that, from as young as I can remember to my age now, the creation story in Genesis has been a story that is repeated often, but the creation story has always confused me a great deal. The reason being, is due to the fact that I see a deeper meaning to what God is doing in the creation story, but also how realistic can this story possibly be? One main point, is how two people after being banished from the garden of Eden supposedly populate the entire Earth. Building on that, if Adam and Eve did manage to populate the Earth they would have to do so through the act of incest. It is repeated multiple times throughout the Bible that we are all brothers and sisters. This realistically could explain what was meant by that statement. Due to Adam and Eve being banished from the Garden of Eden, we all can be originated back to them, assuming they were the first humans on Earth. I feel as if a more realistic story could possibly be that God put Adam and Eve on Earth in order to see how they would act when put in predicaments to choose him over evil. God almost had a trial run, to see if man could handle perfection and no pain. After the fall of man Adam and Eve had proven to God that humans must live a life of pain and suffering in order to regain that gift of perfection and painlessness with him in heaven. A shaky topic is, what happened to the Garden of Eden once Adam and Eve were banished? God is all powerful, but it was said that when God banned them, he placed guards at the gates of Eden. What does that mean? It is being implied that there is a hidden garden that is being armed by God’s guards. I do not think so, but I think once again the garden of Eden now is somewhat of an analogy for heaven. Almost as if the gates to the garden of Eden, which was an area where Adam and Eve could be with God and speak to him, is now the gates to heaven. The guards are now there to let those who have served God and done unlike Adam and Eve and lived the way God asked will be allowed in. I wonder a great deal about this story, because God banished Adam and Eve from The garden of Eden, after they made a single mistake and ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. I now wonder on my own accord, how are my mistakes and wrongdoings going to affect my life. Has God already banished me from his mind? I know that I have turned from God in many instances and choose wrong, but why am I given more than one chance
