In The Beginning

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In The Beginning

• By Chandra Chelsey

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Day 1

• God called the light day
• The darkness he called night

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Day 2

• God made the firmament
• Divided the waters, under the firmament with
  waters above
• God called the firmament Heaven

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Day 3

• Called the dry land Earth
• The gathering together of waters he called seas
• Brought forth grass, herb yielding seed, tree
  yielding fruit

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Day 4

• Created lights and the heaven to divide day from
  night(they were signs for seasons, days, and
  years)
• Created greater light to rule the day
• Lesser light to rule the night along with the
  stars

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Day 5

• God created great whales
• Every living creature that moveth
• Created winged fowl

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Day 6

• Created beast, cattle and everything of the earth
  after its own kind
• Created man in his own image
• Gave man dominion over fish, fowl, and cattle

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Day 7

• God ended his work
• He rested
• God blessed the 7th day

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Garden of Eden
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• In the garden there was the tree of life and the
  tree of knowledge of good and evil
• The Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every
  tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat. But of
  the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou
  shalt not eat of it...

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• 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.
• God planted a garden in Eden and there he put the
  man
• God took one of Adams ribs and made a women. She
  was called Women because she was taken out of
  Man, because man should not be alone.

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The Fall

• The man wife were naked but not
  ashamed.
• The serpent tempted the women to eat the fruit
  from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
• She gave the fruit to her husband who also ate
  the forbidden fruit.
• God knew they had eaten the fruit because they
  knew they were naked and covered themselves.

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• God punished each of them for eating the fruit.
• The serpent was cursed and forced upon thy belly
  all the days of thy life.
• Women shalt bring forth children and thy desire
  shall be thy husband, he will rule over thee.
  (Adam named his wife Eve because she was the
  mother of all living.)
• The ground was curesed and man was to work and
  eat from it all the days of his life.
• Adam and Eve brought sin into the world.

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Relations to Other Work

• How the World was Made
  - a Cheyenne Myth
• In the beginning there was nothing
• God created light, water, sky, and people of
  the sea
• Grandmother turtle has dominance/people had
  dominance
• No one should be alone- a women was created from
  the left rib of man
• The man and women created the people of the earth
  
• God represents all life and is always with the
  people

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Symbols

• God LIFE
• Tree of knowledge of good evil Sin
  temptation
• Serpent Evil the Devil
• Adam Eve forgiven sinners
• Eve mother of all living
• Garden of Eden life (trees/ tree of life)
• Dust man

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Themes

• Good vs. Evil - Adam Eve tempted by serpent
• Creation of Life - the World, Man, Women, beasts
  of the earth, Garden of Eden
• Sins being forgiven - Eating the forbidden fruit
  punished but forgiven

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Relates to us Today?

• We sin and ask for forgiveness
• Many believe in Christianity
• We are all tempted by evil
• We rest on Sunday (seventh day)

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Cultural Details

• Believe in one God - monotheistic
• God is creator of all living things
• Women - mother of all living
• Women is taken from man
• World created in 6 days God rested on the 7th
• Punished for sin
• Men work
• Women have children

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Figurative Language

• Parallelism- repitition of words, phrases, or
  sentences or restates similar ideas
• Literary allusions-reference made in a work of
  literature to another work of literature
• Repitition- Repeating of words, phrases or entire
  sentences

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Identifying Facts

• 1.) God gives humans dominion over the fish of
  the sea, and over fowl of the air, and over the
  cattle, and over all the earth, and over every
  creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
• 2.) Man was created from the dust of the ground.
  Woman was created from the left rib of man and
  was created because man should not be alone.
• 3.) Adam and Eve change by realizing they are
  naked. They gained the knowledge from the fruit
  and covered themselves.
• 4.) Adam (man) is works the ground, Eve (women)
  bear children and ruled over by husband, and the
  serpent was forced to live forever on its belly.
• 5.) Temptations and sins. Men still have to work
  for their food and women have to bear the
  children.

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Interpreting Meaning

• 1.)God saidand it was so and God saw that it
  was good. was repeated because it empasized what
  he had done. Whatever God did was how it would be
  and he made everything from his own visions.
• 2.) God gave man dominion. Adam showed his
  dominion when naming the birds and beasts because
  how he named them was how they would be.
• 3.) God makes them all responsible for what they
  did, but Eve not only had to bear children but
  all her desire was for her husband and her
  husband was to rule over her.
• 4.) People relate the story to everyday life and
  dont know life without sin. They dont think
  about everything being equal.

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