RELS 201 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Tigris, Pison, Gihon
25 May 2019
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Story of creation (heavens, earth, everything that lives) God a spirit hovering an empty watery void, creates the world by speaking into the darkness and calling into being light, sky, land, vegetation, and living creatures over the course of six days. He made humankind in his image, and gave them charge over the earth. Tells us that adam was the first human created on earth, out of the dust. God gave him the garden in eden, expect the tree of good and evil. In the garden of eden, god grew trees to provide sustenance to man and flowing rivers from which to drink. The 4 rivers are now the pison, gihon, hiddekel and euphrates. Says that the serpent was the most cunning among all the animals that god had. It knew that the lord had commanded adam to eat fruit from all of the trees in the garden except for the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
