'A Rhetorical Analysis Of The Story Of Genesis'

Creation stories assist humans explain the unexplainable. The reason why people need something to believe in is because “without an idea of cause and effect, we would be utterly incapable of making sense of the world around us” (Baggini). But why do people feel the need to believe and have creation stories?
They incorporate many life lessons which humans can learn from. Most importantly they allow people to believe in something whether they have a literal interpretation or a metaphorical interpretation of the stories.
Most creation stories have one thing in common, Adam and Eve. This story talks about the first two people on Earth and how they were naked. They were told not to eat fruit from the tree of knowledge by God but they did it anyway. After they eat this fruit they understand

that they are naked and what it means to be naked and they cover up.
This creation story is called The Story of Genesis, and it portrays the idea of where humans get their knowledge and their societal values from.

This simple story has many metaphorical meanings one of them being how humans are impulsive. In the story when they are told not to do something (eat the fruit), they suddenly have the urge to do the opposite. By them receiving knowledge they understand what the “right” thing to do and what the “wrong” thing to do is, within society’s viewpoint. Before Adam and Eve ate the fruit they think it is okay to be naked but when they eat the fruit they realize that it is shameful to be naked in public. Which is an example of their new found societal values.
In another Genesis creation story God created earth day by day. Someone can take the text as literal interpretation and think that God physically built Earth day by day. Or someone can think of this as a metaphorical interpretation. Which would teach the valuable life lessons of patience and that nothing great was done in a day. “And God saw everything he made, and, behold, it was very good” (Genesis 1). Here God shows admiration for his work, it took patience but in the end he perfected

it.
Creation stories exist for many reasons. It allows its reader to decide how he/she wants to view the passages. Whether it be a literal interpretation of how the world was made or a metaphorical guide through life and its lessons. Creation stories tell us humans needs life lessons in order to learn whether they read about it from Adam and Eve and their impulsive decision to do what they’re not supposed to do or reading about patience and how it is the key to be successful. These stories also tells us as humans that we have the right to choose our own path and the right to choose how we interoperate the texts from a literal point or a metaphorical point.