The Garden Of Eden As An Archetype Of The Temple

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From the very beginning of man 's existence to the very climax of all humanity “Jesus God only son dying for our sins”. This essay is about a journey of God and how he started with the creation of his paradise kingdom the Garden of Eden . Eden was commonly perceived as an archetype of the Temple. "The Garden Of Eden As God 's First Sanctuary."(2013) where Adam and Eve would live prosperous and joyous without sin forever and in the safety of god arms. When Humans reject the sole author of God and second minded him, they created sin and with this they were outcast and banished from the Garden of Eden to work the land. And with God rejection other things came in its wake like Cain and able, the great flood, nimrod, and babel this was the perishing …show more content…

He created us in his image to live in a paradise that he created The Garden of Eden. God created all and on the seventh day he rested and made the Sabbath day holy. Now it came that all the earth was perfect and man and woman were equally as happy. In the garden, the serpent promised Adam and Eve the possibility of gaining further knowledge to make them even more like God. “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” (Gen. 3:5). With the violation of the law of God by Adam, sin entered the human race. From that point forward God cursed man and Gen 3:15 said, there will be enmity between woman and the serpent which lied to her. There will also be enmity between his seed and her seed God promised that eventually the serpent would bruise the heel of the seed of the woman. However, the seed of the woman would also bruise (or crush) the head of the serpent. This will be a fatal blow. In the seed of the Woman that will be Jesus crushing the head of the serpent which is the seed of the serpent which is not a child of the devil but more like his followers. God expelled them to work the world instead of rule the earth and constant chaos. As time passed and the descendants of Adam populated the earth came Noah and he had three sons Shem, Ham and Japheth. The earth was full of violence and wickedness and God regretted having made humans. But God found favor in the eyes of Noah and decided to spare him and chose ones to start the world anew. And so God destroyed the earth with the great flood that destroyed everything on earth that was not on the cedar park was dead after the forty days and nights of rain. Then Noah built an altar and made a sacrifice and God said “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though an every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will

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