Ishmael #2 The Story of Man...

Alana Espineli

People. Man. Woman. Child. Human beings have existed for many years. Many different cultures around the world have their own stories about how this came to be. The story that I know is quite similar to many others around the world. 

This story begins with God, the creator. Before there was anything, God created the heavens and the earth. For the next six days God continued to create everything. He created light and darkness. He created the sky, the seas and the land. He created vegetation on the land. He created the sun, the moon and the stars. He created creatures of the sea and of the sky. He created creatures of the land. And He created man and woman in his own image. 

That is the beginning of man's story. These two first human beings were named Adam and Eve. Adam came first, he was created from the dust of the ground. God brought Adam to the Garden of Eden and told him that he was allowed to eat from any of the trees except from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. God soon saw that Adam needed a companion.  So God gave Adam the task of naming all the creatures of the land. However, Adam wasn't able to find a suitable companion in any of the creatures. So God put Adam to sleep and from Adam's own rib, he created Eve, the first woman. 

Adam and Eve were living happily until the day the serpent devised a plan to deceive them. He tricked Eve into eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. She also gave Adam some of the fruit. Once they had eaten the fruit, they're eyes were opened to everything.

God soon found out that they had disobeyed him. He cursed the serpent for deceiving them. God then punished Eve and all of the other women of the world. Since mankind had become like God and now knew everything good and evil, they were no longer able to live forever. Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden.

This was just the beginning of a long history of man. As time went on, human kind began to populate the earth. We have all had to learn from our mistakes and be punished just as Adam and Eve were.