Genesis Shows the Deceitfulness of God

The book of Genesis is the story of creation according to Hebrew text, God creates the world as a paradise, a lush green world that is good, a world that is right, God himself is presented as being caring and fair. However later on there are many stories within Genesis which question God's morality towards his creations. The supposedly just God is at many times shown to be petty, deceiving, and unequal in his treatments towards his creations. As a result of God's own duplicity the men he created covenants with, God's numerous prophets and their respective bloodlines, themselves are often two-faced and unjust. Because of God's: ill treatment towards men, his favoring of certain individuals over others, and his own prophets being devious, God is in actuality a shallow and unfair being. Therefore God's actions in Genesis show that it is his own morale wrongs which create an imbalanced and chaotic world, one which is filled with cruelty and injustice.

God's treatment towards his creations is highlighted with contempt and disappointment many times throughout Genesis. In the beginning God creates Adam and his many companions, giving his creations free reign over the Garden of Eden, and in return asking them to not eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge, later on however it is one of God's own creations, the serpent, who coerces man and woman to break God's word and eat from the tree of knowledge. Surely enough all parties are punished, with man and woman banished from the Garden and forced to toil upon the land for sustenance (New Oxford Annotated Bible, Gen. 2.7-3.19). The story of the Garden of Eden serves to demonstrate two major reoccurring themes in Genesis, God's creations failing his convictions, and his subsequent punishin...

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All in all the book of Genesis shows the deceitfulness of God. While God does create the earth, it is filled with imbalance and disorganization as a result of his own actions. Because God's creations themselves are flawed, eventually the sinfulness will overcrowd the good. Despite God's best attempts at instilling order, all efforts are ultimately too little and too late. In spite of God's prophets trying to promote the goodness that was envisioned, they themselves are full of hypocrisy and morale failures. In fact God creating ties with certain men served to do little but alienate the general populace and create a sense of inequality about the human race. God as presented in Genesis is ultimately not a just and moral being, instead it is his own terrible deposition which creates and condones a disparate world.