2. The way God is perceived in the first chapter of Genesis is the creator of everything. He creates day and night, dry land, vegetation, living creatures. Most importantly he creates man. He seems to have thought out everything well beforehand. All that he creates is very orderly. I think the text presents God this way because of the fact that he is the one who created the world and everything that there is to start out with the heavens and the earth. If he wasn't organized and created certain things for a reason, then the world might not be organized and have no reason. The way God's creation comes into being is in a specific order. First he creates the heaven, earth, and, day and night. Then each day he creates something new and it has relation to what was created the day before. In example, living creatures couldn't survive without vegetation or water. That's why the last thing he creates is man. This shows us that human beings need the most to survive because it was the last of all to be created. Also, I think day and night is an example of organizing the world on when to be awake and when to be sleeping. This is the reason why it's dark at night and light during the day.
Before Eve and Adam ate from the tree of knowledge, they didn't know they were naked. Both Adam and Eve were just like any other living creature created on earth. Although they disobeyed God, the fact that they ate from the tree of knowledge makes them differ from any other living thing. The serpent deceived Eve and convinced her that if she ate from the tree surely she would not die and he was correct. After they both ate neither of them died, if anything it made them more alive and able to see things around them differently and more clearly. The tree of knowledge is clearly very powerful and I feel that if God didn't want them eating from it or anyone going near it, then he shouldn't have created it. I also feel that God created it and told Adam specifically that he was forbidden of the tree of knowledge just to see how it would be that he would eat from it. God based the rest of the world off of how they all disobeyed him. In example, he multiplies the pain that women have in childbearing and now the man rules over the women. I also believe Adam and Eve benefit from disobeying god, although he punished them. I feel as if they never ate from the tree that they would have stayed in the garden of Eden forever.
