Adam And Eve Dialectical Journal

When the god made earth and haven, he created for 7days and blessed on 7th day. And then, the god created Adam and Eve and said “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the Knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die” (Genesis 2). However, they eat the fruit because of the trick of serpent and they got coursed by the god. Through this passage, I feel the humans have kind of week mind so the snake could trick Adam and Eve. Moreover, the author notes the reason of why we human realized every feelings. After that, Eve bore Cain and Abel but Cain killed Abel because of his jealousy. In my opinion, if Adam and Eve didn’t eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge, Cain never

kill Cain. , after the god’s creation, people getting worse and worse they have only evil heart.

Thus god decided to clean Earth. “I will blot out from the earth the human beings I have created people together with animals and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them” (5). After his word, only Noah, his family, and every one pair of animal could survive. After the flood, God blessed Noah and set the rainbow as a sign that he would never flood the earth again. However, Noah got drunk and cursed Ham’s son Canaan. “Blessed by the Lord my god Shem; and let Canaan be his slave. May god make space for Japheth, and let him live in the tents of Shem; and let Canaan be his slave” (7). Moreover, the Lord said “Look, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do” (8). And he build Tower of Babel to prevent human’s previous faults. And then, the god scattered them abroad and confused language of all the world. In Genesis 12, the god sent Abram to Egypt. In Egypt, Abram lied that Sarai is his sister and the Pharaoh took her. However, Pharaoh was cursed by god and sent back her to Abram. I believe that without coursing of the god, Sarai could come

back. After that, in Genesis 15, the Lord promised Abram an heir and many descendants and he told that they would be enslaved but would then return in fourth generation.

In Genesis 16, Sarai told Abram to have a child with Hager, slave of Sarai, and Hagar conceived. However, Sarai dealt harshly with her, and then she ran away. Keep going, in Genesis 17, God made a covenant with Abram and renamed him Abraham. He renamed Sarai Sarah and promised them a son. Moreover, the god said, “You shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you” (11). In my opinion, the reason why the circumciser could be a sing of covenant is cutting of flesh is kind of sacrifice because it bring a lot of pains and inconvenience. And the remaining human flesh after circumciser looks like a making offering to the god. In Genesis 21, as promised, Sarah had a son: Isaac. She had Hagar and Ishmael sent away but God preserved them. Abraham and Abimelech made a treaty. In genesis 22, I find a connection between previous chapters and today’s reading. The god tested

Abraham. The lord said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I shall show you” (15). Abraham successfully finished his trial.
In addition, I want to discuss about Noah. In Genesis 9, the consequence of Noah's sin was shame. Observe here the great evil of the sin of drunkenness. It discovered by his son, Ham, so ham is only one person who saw Noah’s nakedness. Moreover, even though Ham told his brother to cover Noah, Only Shem and Japheth covered their father's shame. Thus, Noah thought Shem and Japheth honored their father, but Ham did not. Therefore, Noah coursed Canaan who is son of Ham instead of Ham. This quote also can be connected to previous reading of this book. Mankind has week heart so Eve was tricked by snake, Cain killed Abel, and it caused of flood by god. Even though Noah was s righteous man, blameless in his generation, but he got drunk finally.
Overall reading was writing about what the god did chronologically. However, I’m the person who doesn’t believe a god so every chapters make me little bit nervous and bible has a big difference with evolutionary theory which made by Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace. However, I’m the person who doesn’t believe a god so every chapters make me little bit nervous.
About contemporary issues, I want to introduce the myth of Dangun. B.C 2500 years ago, Hwan-ung, son of the god Hwan-in often looked down at the human’s world and wanted to govern the country. Thus, the god Hwan-in, let his son rule the humans and send him with 3000 people to the ground. When Hwan-ung arrived the ground, he ordered to Pung-baek who can control winds, U-sa who can control rains, and Un-sa who can control clouds to take over the farming life, good and evil, illness and punishment. One day, Hwan-ung heard a pray from one bear and one tiger and they had been wishing becoming a human. The Hwan-ung said them, “If you tiger and bare never come out from the cave with eating only garlics and mugworts, they will re-born as a human. The tiger and the bare came in to a cave and tiger ran a way within 27days. However, the bare lived in the cave 100days and became a human. After that she prayed to Hwan-ung to have a baby so Hwan-ung married with the woman and she bore a Dan Gun Wang Geom. Later, the Dan Gun Wang Geom build a first kingdom in the world which is Ancient Joseon.
In Daodejing chapter 25, he describes a starting of the universe and what the elements of the Universe are. At the first time, the sky was created from the universe and then ground was made. The universe was stillness and lonely but it worked perfectly itself so the universe could be a “Mother of god” Moreover, Daodejing says he don’t know the name of the Universe so written it “The way” and called it “Big”. Until now, this passage has similar theory of the starting of the god’s creation in bible. Because “The universe” sounds like a Lord god and the sky and the ground were made from universe.
Does anyone who is from other country like me knows a story of ancient myth in your country?