When in reality, the bible says in Genesis 2:16-17, "But the Lord God warned him, "You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden-- except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. ... When Eve first appears in the garden, she is met by Adam who immediately gives her the name Eve. ... "She contemplates the tree, taking into account all the possibilities. The tree is good for food; it satisfies the physical drives. ... Adam gives no hesitation in the biblical text like he does in the video. ...

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In The Book of Genesis The story of Adam and Eve tells about where Eve took a fruit from a tree which God told Adam that the tree is forbidden and he should not eat of it, but Eve eats an apple off this forbidden tree and also offers Adam the forbidden fruit, for this action god punishes them by having women who have children give birth with pain and their sorrows when they suffered would be more deeply felt and they would have to live under the desires of their husbands who would have to work hard to earn food. ...

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The call of Mohammed and the hegira are central to Islam while Buddha's enlightenment under the Bo tree is the main event in Buddhism. ... In Buddhism, Buddha's enlightenment under the Bo tree is very important and central. What happened was that Siddhartha Guatauma sat under a Bo tree seeking enlightenment. ... After sitting under the Bo tree in bliss for forty-nine days he emerged and was ready to share with the world what he knew. ... It brings your history to life; gives it a form. ...

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In the Iroquois myth there was a married couple of gods and there is "a sacred tree that stood at the center of the universe" (Iroquois 25). The woman decides she wants some bark from one of the roots of the tree and her husband even knowing it is forbidden he gives in. So he decided to take some of the roots, "so he dug a hole among the roots of this great sky tree, and he bared some of its roots. ... The forbidden action of taking the fruit from the sacred tree differentiates in that for the Iroquois myth, the man touches the roots from the forbidden tree first, while in Genesis the wom...

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In Genesis 1 mankind was to simply "fill the earth and subdue it," as said in Genesis 1.28, while in Genesis 2 man was made in order to service the world they had been brought into, which can be inferred by Genesis 2.5-9 which states that "there was no one to till the ground he put the man who he has formed out of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree". ... Mankind, from the story of creation told by Genesis 1, was meant to be masters of the world they had been put into, one way God enforced this was by telling the man and the woman ,in Genesis 2.16-17, "You may ...

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God put the tree of life before Adam to give him a choice; if Adam chose to obey, then he could be praised for making a conscience decision to do what is right. ... When He set the forbidden tree before Adam it gave him the freedom of choice; so on the same token, if books are censored, the freedom of choice, our God given freedom is being denied. ...

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I can enter a state of worship as I walk down a quite street while the wind blow through the trees. ... The Mausoleum is a place to reverence the dead and give thanks to God for life. ... One with flowers and the other with palm trees, a statue and sand. I favored the area with the palm trees. The sand and palm trees depict the dessert. ...

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In the bible the creation of the Garden of Eden is described, "And out of the ground the Lord God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and godo for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." ... This story gives people something to believe in and something to help them understand the purpose for their existence. ...

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Goodman Brown knows as a minister, should be in the town one of the first to follow the rules and give the good example. ... "He had taken dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind" the narrator precise (141). ... A place "darkened by all the gloomiest trees," unknown territory, is the characteristics of the forest that represents evil and sinfulness (141). ...

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This passage notes that "The Lord planted a garden in the east, toward Eden" (Gen. 2:8) and "Out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen. 2:9)." ... The tree of life stands next to the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the center or midst of the garden. The positioning of the two trees suggests that the power of God is to grant life and to give humans the ability to choose life by following God's commandments these are at ...

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In Genesis, "The Lord God planted all sorts of beautiful trees there in the garden, trees producing the choicest of fruit. At the center of the garden he placed the Tree of Life, and the Tree of Knowledge, giving knowledge of both Good and Bad.... ... But the Lord God gave the man this warning: "You may eat any fruit in the garden except fruit from the Tree of Knowledge-- for its fruit will open your eyes to make you aware of right and wrong, good and bad...." ...

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The last few lines of the hymn, "Filling the barns and widening the granaries; giving to the poor. Causing trees to grow according t the uttermost desire so that men go not in lack of them." This shows god providing for his children, giving them what they need to survive in life. ...

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Another main question is why God went easy on Adam and Eve after they had went against his wishes and ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Originally God had stated that, "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die," (Genesis 2.16, 2.17). Adam and Eve had ignored this warning however and had eaten from the Tree of Knowledge after the devil had tempted them to. ... He demonstrated forgiveness by giving them another chance to live their lives and showed mercy by not ...

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God introduced vegetation in the form of plants and trees to the newly created dry land called earth. ... From this branches of the evolution tree were formed in all different directions. ... The similarities with this particular group of animals are larger than any other in the evolutionary family tree. ... Clearly even he knew that his theory could not give an answer to the question or purpose of life. ...

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So God not only allowed evil to be created, so that he could give us free will that we might choose him, but he also gave it definition. ... He did not know that eating from the one tree in the center of Eden was evil until God told him. So why would God put the tree there in the first place if he didn't want man to eat it? ... So what was his reason for putting evil with man, why was the tree placed in the Garden of Eden? ... That is why the tree was placed in easy access to Adam and Eve. ...

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A way that the carp expresses its moral lessons is, "and so the golden carp sent them a prophecy"(118).When Antonio sees the carp it gives him a sense of peace that Catholicism doesn't give him and it soothes him. ... The owl sings, "at the big juniper tree where the hill sloped to the bridge I heard Ultima's owl sing. ...

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In the beginning the only being that existed in the world was a bear named Onyx and there was no earth, no sky, no trees, no other animals or mortals, just Onyx and an abyss of darkness. ... And the rest floated down to form the earth, trees, sea, and mountains. ... Angelique you must entrust them with happiness, health, and prosperity and you, Erectorious, must make the woman fertile so she can give birth to more humans. ... Amorous and Penelope decided to plot against their son Damien by giving him a sacred fruit that would make his body parts fall off and his bones weak and brittle. ...

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When Brown meets with the devil, the devil gives him a staff in the shape of a "great black snake" (261) to help him walk further. ... When Adam and Eve stole from the Tree of Knowledge, they were banished from Eden. Brown's acceptance of the staff gives him with "the instinct that guides mortal man to evil" (266). ... When Brown meets with the devil in the forest, on a path, he finds Faith's pink ribbons hanging on a tree. ...

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Beginning with Adam's failure to comply with the Lord's command to not eat of the tree of knowledge, up to the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, man sought to regain the open fellowship with God that he had originally enjoyed, but lost in the garden. ... Adam was given the opportunity by God to eat of any fruit of the garden, including that of the tree of life, which would provide for him eternal life. "But God did say, "You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die"" (Genesis 3:3). ... In giving His people His law, G...

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Emerson is consistant in giving his views on God. He goes through his whole essay giving reasons why nature is the way to God and how to get to nature. Dickinson gives a much simpler approach, she says that the way to get to God is to die; she does this in at least two of her poems 338 and 1732. ... She gives evidence of negative feelings toward God and questions him. ... Emerson seeming to be the tree huger type, overlooks the brutality and uncontrollable aspects of nature. ...

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Upon entering the forest he is suspicious of every rock and tree, thinking something evil will jump out at him. ... When he sees this it destroys any faith he might have had in the community or himself and he appears to give-up. ...

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He goes into the forest and he took "a dreary road darkened by all the gloomiest trees in the forrest" (46). ... His intension were not to give up the good that existed with in him, but in a puritan world, once someone allows the devil into their lives they are not allowed to return to the other side. ...

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In the end the three symbols Hawthorne uses Young Goodman Brown, Faith, and the color pink to give the story life. ... Pink was used to show the good and the bad between Brown and Faith in good times it was flowing in the wind and the bad it was tangled up in a tree....

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He drove out the man and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life" (Genesis 3:22). ... In Leviticus, the Lord gives the instructions for man to make sacrifices for Sin Offerings, Guilt offerings, Acceptable offerings, punishment for blasphemy, among many other laws and stipulations. ... It follows, then, that the Hebrew people expected the Messiah to be the greatest prophet and law giver. ... Only through Jesus, the son of God, giving his life for man to be forgiven, can man return to God's...

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Gandhi felt "the means can be compared to a seed and the end to a tree. Between the means and the end there is the same inviolable relation that exisits between the seed and the tree" (Sofri 192). ... Every drop in the ocean shares its majesty and has the honor of giving us life" (Philosophies p.1) Gandhi had a very strong faith in God and religion. ...

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