I always love a story from the bible that tells what our purpose on earth is, taking care of the earth :) To Till the Earth Humanitys Purpose and the Garden Story " Other passages suggest that creations reliance on man as caretaker extends far beyond the grasses and shrubs of the field. When God first situates man in the garden that he planted in Eden, the text says, The LORD God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden, to till it and tend it (Gen. 2:15). The word to in the last clause of the verse can mean that God positions man in the garden for the purpose of functioning as its caretaker rather than as a passive occupant. Were the final clause not included, we would have no clues as to what man would actually be doing in the garden. The phrase to till it and tend it, however, suggests that man will be involved in the same kind of active caretaking that the text spoke of in 2:5. The text also implies that by placing man in the garden, God expands mans caretaking role for the grasses and shrubs of the field to include every tree that was pleasing to sight and good for food as well as with the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and bad that God plants in Eden (Gen. 2:9). For a being that has just been created, man is being entrusted with big responsibilities by God. Man will spend his time in the garden tending to it and keeping it alive rather than sitting idly by while God does all of the work." https://google.ca/search?q=take+care+of+the+garden+adam+and+eve&rlz=1C1CHFX_enCA526CA526&oq=take+care+of+the+garden+adam+and+eve&aqs=chrome..69i57.15873j0&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#es_sm=93&q=take+care+of+the+garden+adam+and+eve+gods+first+commandment
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:01:15 +0000
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