The Creation/ Lilith, Eve, and Paradise
It took God six days to create Heaven and Earth along with every foul, fish, and beast. However, on the seventh day, he decided to rest and sanctify it. God wanted to create man in his image and wanted them to have control over Earth. God decided to plant a garden in Eden where trees, good for sight and nutrients, were place along side a rivers for water. God decided to place man inside the garden so he could take care of it. It was there he could eat freely. However, the fruit on the tree of Good and Evil was strictly forbidden.
God did not want Adam to be lonely so he created Lilith as his companion. Lilith did not say with Adam very long for she wanted to be equal. She vanished from Adam and as punishment she would lose one hundred of her demon children daily by death. It was then Eve was created to be his true wife and live in paradise.For in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. The Creation
The woman destined to become the true companion of man was taken from Adam's body, for "only when like is joined unto like the union is indissoluble." The creation of woman from man was possible because Adam originally had two faces, which were separated at the birth of Eve. Eve
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| While Adam was created from sand, Eve was created from his bones. Source |
The Fall of Satan
Adam was extraordinary and soon gained the envy of the angels, especially Satan, the greatest of all angels who had twelve wings to the regular six. Satan wanted to challenge the wit of man and God asked him to recite the names of his animals. When Satan was unable to and Adam was able to recite the first letter of the animals, Adam was divined the proper name and superior to Satan. However, Satan was unable to pay homage to Adam and experienced God's wrath for he was flung out of heaven and onto Earth. Thus began the enmity between God and Satan.
The Fall of Man
The serpent was notable and resembled man and because of his mental capabilities, he, like Satan, was very jealous of Adam. He hatched up a plan to ruin man but decided to deceive Eve, for women are easier to beguile. The serpent pushed Eve into the tree to make her see that merely touching it would not cause her to die so how bad would it be to eat the fruit it bears? In order to make his point, he took a bite out of the fruit. It was then Eve took the skin of the fruit, then the actual fruit did she see the Angel of death. It was then her mission to make Adam and all other living beings to eat the forbidden fruit. However, Adam and Eve did not die, they stood ashamed in their nakedness and had to scrounge around for cover. It was only the fig, the forbidden fruit itself, that allowed them to use it as cover for the other leaves would not allow the wicked to touch them.
The Punishment
As punishment, the serpent had its hands and legs cut off and Eve was subjected to ten curses, but it was Adam who suffered the most. He had his celestial clothing stripped from him, and in his short remainder on earth, animals were now in power. However, they were not the only ones punished. Earth was made to become dependent on rain, give trees with no fruit. God would have let Adam and Eve stay in the Garden of Eden but they were not repentant and therefore were evicted from Paradise.
Woman covers her hair in token of Eve's having brought sin into the world; she tries to hide her shame; and women precede men in a funeral cortege, because it was woman who brought death into the world. And the religious commands addressed to women alone are connected with the history of Eve. Adam was the heave offering of the world, and Eve defiled it. Eve
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