God creates the Earth in seven days. From clay of the Earth, God creates Adam, and using one of his ribs, he creates Eve. He places them in a garden (the Garden of Eden). The two are allowed to eat from any tree besides the Tree of Knowledge. One day, a serpent (sometimes interpreted as Samael, other times as Satan) tempts Eve to eat a fruit from this forbidden tree. She does so and then convinces Adam to do the same. In response, God angrily banishes the two from the garden, taking away their immortality and punishing all humans to be born with original sin, and he and punishes the serpent.
The story is simple, and there is a similar one in the very same book of the Bible, but it coincides with how so many other cultures also have origin stories. Whether it be Izanagi and Izanami or the primordial gods, every culture has tried to explain its origins. Even today, we are no exception, but our answers are for more based in scientific fact than the origin stories of old. We now know that all land based life on this planet originated from the ocean and evolved into the organisms that we know of today. Still, one cannot help but wonder how the rest of the universe came into being.
Fortunately, I do not suffer from such uncertainty regarding my own origins. I am one fourth Polish courtesy of my paternal grandmother, and I have a small amount of Russian and German in me, but such small portions are nearly negligible at this point. I know where my family and I have come from, but I have no interest in dwelling on such matters; I am the person that I am, and I have a purpose to fulfill in this life, and unless it involves learning from mistakes, I have no reason to dwell on past events as opposed to concentrating on my present so that I may have an enjoyable future.
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