Thursday, February 4, 2016

Week 3 Reading Diary,continued:Adam and Eve

Second Half of the Story:
In the third day, god built the garden and it was so amazing it has a lot of trees and lakes. In the north side of the garden there was a very clean and nice sea of water and the south side there were a lot of trees has a very delicious fruits, but god did not let Adam and eve to be close to any of these borders because if they were close to the north then they will be close to the lake and can wash themselves and repent of their sins. And god prevents them from sitting in the south side because when the wind blew from the north so they can smell the delicious smell of the trees of the garden and god said to Adam and Eve to stay in the middle of garden and do not leave it, but they did go out of the garden afterwards.

Then the next episode of the unit which called “entering the cave of treasury “ Adam was not understanding the meaning of 5 days and half and he wanted god to explain it to him. Then god in his mercy for Adam explains to him that was 5,000 and 500 years. So Adam trembled and fell down but god lifted him up.  Adam and Eve entered the cave of treasures and saw what in it, Adam did not like it and he was like he do not want to enter the cave again, but he bowed to god’s order and stayed in the cave and start to pray to god in his own language and wept and smote heavily upon his breast until he fall down. Then Eve started to ask god to let him alive because she was thinking that Adam was died. God did not let them die and Adam ask god if he can let all the beasts do not devour him and eve. After god heard what Adam was saying, he let all the beasts did obeisance to Adam. Adam and Eve decided to not drink water because that will increase their punishment. And when they went back to the cave there was so darkness and they were not able to see each other.

The next day god explain to Adam why there was that darkness, so Adam stayed in the cave just praying and weeping until the morning dawned upon him and saw the light returned to him. And the serpent was the most exalted of all beasts but Adam saw how it changed and became slippery. After Adam saw the serpent he asked god if he can take him and eve to another place where no serpent because it will hurt them. And the last episode talked about the altar that Adam and eve  built and how they stood under it and entreating god to forgive them and their sin and to look to them with eye of mercy.


image information:God the father

Story source: The Forgotten Books of Eden, edited by Rutherford H. Platt, Jr. (1926)

1 comment:

  1. Thank you for writing out your own notes, Christina! Great! What you have written here is a summary of the story in your own words. Next time, see if you can start thinking about a story you want to write: you do not need to write a summary if you do that. Instead, you can put yourself in there: "I liked the part about ____ because ____" or "I was curious about ____ because ____" ... that way the notes will be about you and your reactions to the story, the things you think are important and the reasons why you notice them. That will really help in writing your own story later because you will remember how you felt and what you thought when you were reading.

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