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Reading Notes: Adam and Eve Part B

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Adam and Eve by Louis Ginzberg, click for link From the Leaving the Garden chapter, God forgives Adam and Eve of all their sins, I could write the story as if he did not forgive them. God also told Adam to dwell in the Cave of Treasures below the garden. I could write many things about how it looked or bring it in the terms of today. I could write as if Adam was living in today's world and explain how he would react if he were a typical high maintenance person. I did not quite understand why the cave was called this based off of Adam's reaction. In the They Die a First Time chapter, I could rewrite that to be a more exciting story in a way that everyone could understand it. The Beasts of Creation has so many possibilities, I am not sure where to begin. The Darkness also has many options. Based on Supernatural, the TV show, I could combine both of the stories together. That would probably be the most entertaining. The Garden of Eden

Reading notes: Adam and Eve Part A

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Adam and Eve by Ginzberg;  link to the reading online Adam's body was huge and reached to Heaven itself. Adam was created to be the perfect human. He was charming, physically fit, and had great spiritual qualities. God breathed a soul into him. Adam was so "gracious" to give David seventy years from his 1000 years. Adam is named after Adamah, which means dust of the earth. Adam made the angels jealous, so they tried to set him on fire. God protected him. Satan was the most jealous one out of all of the angels, which led to his fall. Satan challenged Adam to a "trial of wit." Adam and Satan had to assign names to the animals, if Satan could not he failed. In this story, Satan lost and refused to bow down to Adam, so he threw a tantrum and was flown out of heaven by God himself. The earth and God divided time between each other. God took night and the earth took day. This was a result of the earth not feeling like it could nourish Adam and his many descenda...