Blog Number One - Garden of Eden

So  long story short, God created the heavens, the land, the seas, the animals, the sun and moon, and mankind in six periods. After he saw that everything he made was good, he rested. The purpose of mankind was to live forever and produce offspring. They only had one rule: do not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and bad. As long as they obeyed this one rule they would thrive in the Garden of Eden. However, despite having many good trees in the garden to eat from, Eve took the fruit of the tree of knowledge when tempted by the devil who disguised himself as a serpent. He claimed that God had lied to Adam and Eve and they would not die if they ate from this particular tree. He told Eve that they would be able to have God's supreme knowledge. So she took the fruit, ate it, and gave some to Adam. They suddenly became ashamed of their naked state and ran to hide from God. God asked why they were trying to hide and they answered. They admitted to eating from the tree, each trying to blame the other, and God punished them by taking away their perfect state. He also banned them from the Garden, guarding the entrance to it with cherubs and a rotating flaming sword. From this point on, women were bound to have labor pains and men had to grow their own produce from thorns and thistles. Every descendant of Adam was also born in an imperfect state because of his disobedience. The Devil became the Father of the Lie.

There are other stories about how humans came to be. The Egyptians believed that a god came up from earth mounds from the Nile and created mankind. There is the theory of evolution that contradicts the belief of creation.

I am Japanese-American (technically full Japanese, but since I was born here in Lexington, Ky I'm an American). My parents were both born in Japan. One of my ancestors was possibly one of the last samurai (which I think is extremely awesome). My sister was born in Japan, and she was four when my parents moved to California where they had my two twin brothers. I really wish they would've stayed in California, but my dad got a job in Kentucky where I was born (hurrah). And that's basically my life story in a nutshell.