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  • Essay / The unique relationship between God and humanity in Genesis

    The relationship between God and his human creations can be seen as a very complex relationship. Genesis shows us many examples of God's interaction with humans and humans' interaction with each other. Beginning with the creation of Adam and Eve and all subsequent events, I will show what the relationship tells us about the nature of God and humanity. When you read the first chapter of Genesis, you get the feeling that God is perfect. God has all power and control. God transforms chaos into order. “God said, “Let there be light.” And there was light, and God saw that the light was good” (Genesis 1:3). The word of God is action, the word of God is law in the universe. When God creates something, he puts an end to it and God sees that it is good. This actually supports the perfect nature that God is and the creations that God has made. “God does not play dice” (Armstrong 9), God has an order and a purpose for what he does. An important aspect of God is visible as He creates the world. It separates water from land. The light of darkness, of day and night, of man and woman. This shows that boundaries are important to God. We see examples where God has placed limits on humanity with His language by mixing languages ​​to confuse man and killing evil from good. With the creation of man and woman, God forms them from his image. “And God created humans in his image, in the image of God He created him, man and woman He created them? (Gen 1:27). Alter says "him as in Hebrew is grammatically but not anatomically masculine". So, according to the interpretation, the first human had no gender. Then on the third line “male and female, he created them?” involves the creation of gender. The importance of this is that the first form of "man" had not...... middle of paper ...... sent him some of it. First we see God as omnipotent, then we see God asking where Adam and Eve are hiding (not being omnipotent). With the creation of humanity, God loses part of his piety and gains part of his humanity. God has a little human in him and we have a little God in us. But the main point remains the same: God is the authority over man and will remain so. I also think that the God in the Bible is really no different from the gods of Greece for example. The God of ancient Greece acted like humans, the only difference was that they were immortal. The God of the Bible seems to act like humans, shows love, anger, regret, learns from mistakes, etc. Ultimately, God shows his faults and learns from his mistakes. God is like humans, maybe that's why we don't understand God sometimes because we can't understand others and their actions..