Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Bible Stories - Garden of Eden - A Beautiful Garden



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No Rain When God Created the Earth


This Bible Story tells us that when God created the earth there were no trees or any other plant growing on earth. This was because God had not sent rain to water the earth and there was no one to cultivate the land.

Because God hadn’t sent rain, so He used another method to water the land. He made water to come up from under the ground to water the land.

Planting of Garden of Eden

There was a place on earth called Eden. The place was in the east part of the earth.

God planted a beautiful garden in that place. The name of the Garden was Garden of Eden. He made all kinds of beautiful trees to grow there and produce delicious fruit.

He planted two particular trees in the middle of the garden.

The first tree was the tree that gives life. The second tree was the tree that gives knowledge of what is good and what is bad.

God made a river to flow in Garden of Eden. The river watered the garden. After the river flowed out of Eden, it divided into four rivers. The rivers are:

1. River Pishon – It flowed around the entire land of one place called Havilah.

There were pure gold, rare perfume and precious stones in Havilah

2. River Gihon – This river flowed around the entire land of one place called Cush.

3. River Tigris – The river flowed east of one place called Assyria.

4. River Euphrates – This was the fourth river.


How God Created Man and Put Him in Garden of Eden

After God planted the Garden of Eden, He took some soil from the ground and formed a man.

Then God breathed life-giving breath into the man’s nostrils and the man became a living person.

God took the man He created and placed Him in the Garden of Eden. He told the man that his work was to cultivate the garden and watch over it.

God made sure He provided food for the man. So He told the man that he could freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden.

He however commanded him not to eat the fruit of a particular tree. That tree was one of the trees in the middle of the garden. The tree was the tree that gave knowledge of what is good and what is bad. God said to the man, “You must not eat the fruit of that tree. If you do, you will die the same day.”

How God Created a Woman and Gave Her to the Man

After God created a man, He looked at the man and saw that it was not good for the man to remain alone. So He decided that He would make a helper who would be just right for the man.

First of all, God brought all the birds and animals to the man so that He would see what the man would name them.

The man named all the birds and animals. But God saw that none of them was a helper that was just right for the man.

This made God to make the man to fall into a very deep sleep. While the man was sleeping, God opened up his side and took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the opened side.

God used that rib to form a woman and brought her to the man.

When the man saw the woman he was very excited and said, “At last, here is one of my own kind — Bone taken from my bone, and flesh from my flesh. ‘Woman’ is her name because she was taken out of man.”

It is because God took a rib out of the man to create the woman that’s why the woman is the bone taken from the man’s bone, and flesh taken from his flesh. And God said that it is because of this a man would leave his father and his mother and become joined with his wife, and the two of them would be united as one.

So no human being must separate a husband and a wife because God has joined them together.

Genesis 2:4-25; Matthew 19:5, 6.

Questions:

1. Where was the location of Eden?

2. In which part of Garden of Eden was the tree that gives knowledge of what is good and what is bad?

3. Name the four rivers that flowed beyond the Garden of Eden.

4. Why would a man leave his father and his mother and become joined with his wife?

5. What did God take from the side of a man to form a woman?

6. Why mustn’t any human being separate a husband and a wife?

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