The Book Of Genesis

THE BOOK OF GENESIS

Introduction

The Old Testament includes from the Pentateuch to the historical, sapiential and prophetic books, is composed of those written in multiple literary genres and at different historical times of the Hebrew tradition (in its original language). The title of the first of the books that make up the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, as well as the first part of the Torah, of the sacred book of Judaism Tanaj, is Berishit or Genesis that comes from the Latin genĕsis, and this in turn of theGreek γένεσις (genesis), means origin, principle. This book refers to the idea of the origin of all things, such as the creation of heaven and earth, and the first humans Adam (male man) and eva (female man) created with the idea of being the image and likeness of GodTo govern the Earth. 

The original Hebrew text to talk about the first man uses here the word Adam that has been translated as a man and that is related to the word adama that means earth, but Adama is also the proper name that has been given to this first man and soIt has translated into most texts. In Hebrew the word Adam will also correspond to the feminine form that will give rise to the distinction between man and woman since the linguistic form creates the distinction in the use of the word both for female and for masculine. Here is the origin.of two of the fundamental terms to understand this work. 

Introduction

The creation of the first humans occurs on the sixth day;However, before the creation of the earth and all living beings, God created supernatural or spiritual beings known as angels, which as the main purpose must serve and attend their creator.

The entire part of the heavenly world that existed before the creation is narrated from the oral tradition that is not written in the Torah but that nevertheless belongs to a structural part of the entire Hebrew religious tradition, a good part of it is given inTalmudic literature and especially in the misdras. The misdras are a literary figure as a kind of story that has a content and moral meaning that aims to give a teaching that must be learned, understood and applied in life. 

Much of the contents written in the book of Genesis presuppose the knowledge of these misdras. For a Hebrew this is very familiar, but in the structure of the Christian religion this does not exist, it is therefore that we need to make a clear contextualization about the origin of some figures that appear in this book and that are fundamental for this monograph. The narration in the book of Genesis says: On the fifth day God had completed all the creation of heavens and earth with all its content, an elementary question arises from here and in turn fundamental to whom I believe everything ?, What need did God have to create a being that was the recipient of all the creation of God if there were some to whom they could correspond to them: the angels. 

There is a misdras that tells this origin and that allows me to paraphrase it as follows: the angels began to have a feeling of envy in front of the recipient of all the creation of God because although everything was well done so that create an earthly being of orderthat the Earth ruled and not them. The argument is simple but forceful: God’s perfect creation should be for a perfect being like them (the angels) here appears what in the Hebrew tradition is known as the feeling of envy (Hebrew definition) of a being (angel) withRegarding another (man). From this feeling, a superior one that is known as the superb that corresponds in its original sense to be or be above God, to be about God is going to be believed to believe God, and that in Genesis it is explained when the snakeIt tells Eva you will be as gods, this feeling of envy then translates into the attitude of disobedience and the superb is not willing to be subjected to another;The attitude contrary to pride in the Hebrew tradition is known as humility. 

The origin of this word has its roots in the word humanity that comes from humus that is the land that leads to the budget of a creator, of a superior one and therefore due respect and obedience. Here we find the figure of Adam, left the earth, but his being is not limited only to the earth, its existence, it has a distinction that in genesis is distinguished with the breath given by God, it is the word nefes that designatesbeing animated by a vital and divine breath, in Hebrew the Ruaj that constitutes in person with a category superior to the other creatures linked to its creator as a person by obedience to his will. 

Now, all the relationship between human nature and that of Los Angeles with respect to the place that each of them occupies in creation and in their relationship with God is exposed in chapter 3 of the book of Genesis that tells the fall of themen. To explain the origin of arrogance and humility, the book of Genesis takes the figure of the angel Luz Bell that will become who tempts the man and the woman so that they believe in the feeling of pride in front of God, you will be as knowledgeable godsof good and evil, and that is why this angel is constituted by its own function in the opponent, opponent and adversary of God, who creates the division between man and God and that is why his name is the devil,word that means who divides. 

Satan, the devil made Eva believe that whoever spoke to him was a snake so that he could hide his identity and his true intentions, which were to deform the image of God on earth. He achieved his mission, and Eva stung his curiosity, and endedWe, which allows usReligious behavior,

After contextualizing the origin of pride and humility from the religious point of view in the book of Genesis, and the misdras, to be able to answer the research question raised in this monograph, you must see how and why the moral behavior of theYoung, which is the figure of modern man, needs humility and / or has a principle of pride in his decisions and actions in everyday life, and how these two different attitudes will influence the life of the young man. 

From here the question arises, how is it possible for the young man to distinguish the principles of good and evil in his behavior?, Humility cannot be understood with the theory;but rather you learn through acts of humility. Contempt, segregation, greed, selfishness and pride are contrary to humility. These attitudes are the great spiritual diseases of modern man today. The humble is the one who knows that he cannot do everything, clearly understands his limitations, he sees his misery;Therefore, before his baseness he has no qualms about looking at God and obeying the limits that religion imposes on him. 

The superb instead is self-sufficient, the superb young man believes that everything can and dispenses with God, dispenses with the limits imposed by religion: And he asks himself, what do I want God if I can do everything?, Principles are previously divided into two: the first of these is that the young man tends to obey because modern society, in other words a secular or atheist society has taught the modern young man as a principle of behavior to live with an attitude ofSuperb is to say not to obey, and pretend to be like God, pretend. 

The other religious principle that allows the young to distinguish good from evil, is to be able to have an authority that indicates him and orient to do, that in religion is the image of the religious precepts that for our case are of traditionJudeochristian, and to teach how to behave with respect to others and with it, is to behave with an attitude humility, is to recognize to the extent of what is really is. When a modern person recognizes his true value in God, he means that he is humble, in this way, the young man renounces the spirit of the devil with all our heart. More recognizes God as a superior being and a being that will illuminate him in the path of good, ’humiliates before the Lord, and he will exalt you. 

But because modern man behaves mostly with an attitude of pride and disobedience? Who was responsible for this ?: The Angel Lucifer, the devil responsible for separating the young man from God, and to affirm that he can have a moral autonomy in his life, and that he does not need to obey any superior figure to this is as mentioned above the secular society. This type of society is that process that societies experience from the moment when religion and its institutions lose influence on them, so that other spheres of knowledge are occupying their place, a society that is characterized by their lack of interest in interestThe sacred, the supernatural or the values associated with the traditionalism and conservativeism of religion, where the sacred gives way to the profane and the religious becomes an irrelevant theme. It is then how it can be seen how secular society is that devil who has taken care of the modern man from the previously mentioned religious principles. 

Although, man has, recognizes, lives and accepts a principle of moral obedience, and accepts him recognizing that there is another that determines his moral action or his actions, otherwise he will have to self-determine morally and therefore his behavior, whatthat will conduct it or take it in our terms to text as a God as long. 

At present, two modern man models are presented, the one who is governed by the religious principles exposed regardlessindividual and collective life, and the one who has grown without the two main religious principles imposing himself as the one who dictates that is right and that is wrong. 

That modern young man who lives with religious principles, and who has a very devout faith, is that young man who will not miss in the path of evil, throughout his life the young man will understand that he cannot self-imply, or believe himselfGod, which means that this young man will not decide for himself that it is good and that it is evil. The other modern man model is one that in a secularized society, part of atheism, which is consciously affirmed, especially because it considers God as concurrent of human aspirations, as a denial of their moral autonomy, and ofyour wishes or your pleasures. 

This man when he also estimated himself from the account despises the other as a subject. From there the intolerable of the superb attitude. The pride imposed by secular society should be avoided, since when we establish our relationships in different personal fields, various types of interpersonal conflicts are generated. This attitude also prevents the modern man from seeing the generating possibilities in others. And clouds his own possibilities, which means that later this attitude will take its toll later in his life. 

conclusion

This is finally allowed to ask myself the question, what is God’s feeling towards a person who behaves arrogantly and arrogantly ?, God directly rejects this people, because people with these attitudes are refusing to obey the legitimate authority of God, which in the story of the misdras is exactly what Lucifer did when he lived in heaven and fell thanks to the attitude of the attitude ofpride. Any of us has often acted with pride, pride and arrogance, without realizing that, with these attitudes, we are outraging and moving away from God, and that is why we have to be limited by something, to continue along the path of theWell, developing humility. Which means that the modern young man must be aware of the essence of the truth of who is the same, what is the truth? That we are all mere human beings.