Week 3 Storytelling: Adam and Eve

How did God create this world ?How did God create all the people and animals on the earth? Every one of us asked these questions to himself when he was a child and wanted to know how this world created. Adam and Eve, the parents for all the humans in the earth, is a very famous story . And as the famous story tells us God built the earth in seven days and the whole world was ready to have the humans, animals, and all the tiny creatures in this world in those seven days.

And to fill  this world with all the living things, God decided to bring a man and a woman to the earth to feel the life in that quiet place. And he gave Adam and Eve  a mission. This mission was to create the other creatures by a machine.  It was called ” human machine” The second part of the mission was to give all the other creatures names where all the people after that would call them by this name. The time to finish the mission was just three days.

The human machine has a small red button,and when it pressed,it makes the machine work. It also has a touch screen where the user can browse the images inside. There is a tube connected to its side where all the created creatures can pass through to get out of the machine to life like a dead body without a soul. This machine was created by God. And God put it in front of them and told them the mission. 

After God told them what their mission was, they were shocked and did not know how to turn on the machine and how to start creating animals. The only thing was okay if they did not do it was to put a soul to these creatures because God going to do that instead of them.

Adam and Eve started to think the whole day how they would do animals, and after they thought deeply for almost a day they decided to do an animal that can do some sounds and beautiful sounds to make the earth more lively. They went to the machine and tried to figure out how it worked.  They found a small red button close to the screen and when they pressed it the screen turned on and then they started to think what they should do next. While they were discussing what to do, Adam touched the screen with his finger by mistake, and suddenly a couple of pictures appeared in front of them on the screen. These pictures were of some eyes, noses, mouths, bodies, hands, and legs.  After they knew that this screen works by touching it, they began to put these pictures together to find a good shape for the animal that they needed to create which is the “bird “as we call it today,but they failed to do the whole picture of the bird correctly. 

 The next day while they were thinking about the picture of the bird and how it should look like, Eve looked to Adam’s face and said, “Oh Adam, I think I know how to solve this problem." 

Adam replied, “How?”  

She said, "The pictures that we saw yesterday look like the parts of your face, so if we try to collect them together in the same way then we can get the picture of our first animal.”

 So Adam agreed with her and said,” Let’s try to do this.” 

And they went back to the machine and tried to do that puzzle. After the half of the second day passed they figured out how to do the face of the bird and that face was like the human face. They started to do the body by putting legs on it, and they put arms and hands to the bird instead of wings. At the end of the day, they got a very ugly bird which is not even a bird, but they were so happy with that because they wanted to finish their mission.

On the third and last day, Adam and Eve spent the whole day trying to get this bird out of the screen. And they  tried to give their creature a name, so God would be able to put a soul in that body and then they  knew that they were done. The day ended and they did not finish what God asked them to do and  God told them to go fill the earth with humans without creating anything else.

 We can conclude that no one can  create people and animals better than God because God always does the best for us and creates each one of us in a very good shape. God is always beside each of us when we need him.

image information: Adam and Eve

Author’s note: 

 Adam and Eve is a story that everybody knows. And everyone knows that Adam and Eve are the parents of all the humans on the earth. 

 In this story I decided to change the whole story while keeping Adam and Eve the main characters in the story. I also added some technology to those days to see if the technology devices and humans can create something better than the ability of God to do that or not.

I chose this story because it is a traditional story  and writing a story like this could be a challenging for me, so my goal was to try to mix between these days and the first days in life. My idea is that in these days we are seeing the rapid progress of technology and how that technology is developing every day very quickly. And we can feel it through the presence of mobile devices and computers for example or through the medical field where the doctors will become able to do surgeries to put a whole head of one body on a different body. It is just like creating a new person. Despite all this development that we are witnessing, we still do not have the power of God of creating people in a very beautiful image.

Bibliography: Story source: King James Bible (1611): Genesis 1-2.

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.

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

Week 3 Reading Diary: Adam and Eve

After I read the first half of the unit I think I have some notes:

God had built everything in seven days; heavens and earth were finished in seven days. Then, the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed and god wanted to not keep Adam alone and decided to bring him a woman. And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." Then Adam and Eva lived in the garden and eat from the tree that the god told them not to eat from.so that made the god got angry and when he came to ask them Adam decided to escape and Eve said that the serpent told her that she can eat from the tree.

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 God said to the women, "I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee."

And unto Adam he said, "Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."

And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. Then the unit talked about how Adam was look like when he came to the earth. So this extraordinary qualities with which Adam was blessed, physical and spiritual as well, aroused the envy of the angels. They attempted to consume him with fire; In particular, Satan was jealous of the first man, and his evil thoughts finally led to his fall. The physical formation of woman is far more complicated than that of man, as it must be for the function of child-bearing, and likewise the intelligence of woman matures more quickly than the intelligence of man. Many of the physical and psychical differences between the two sexes must be attributed to the fact that man was formed from the ground and woman from bone. After that the unit talked about the Paradise and the seven portals where the souls of the departed must go through these portals before they arrive in the heaven 'Arabot. There were especially six commandments which every human being is expected to heed: man should not worship idols; nor blaspheme God; nor commit murder, nor incest, nor theft and robbery; and all generations have the duty of instituting measures of law and order. Then in the end of this half was talking about the punishment.

Story source: The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg (1909).