The Old Testament begins with creation of earth and lives on earth. After that we read about creation of different creatures and creation of a man. God made man and female in his image and put him above all other creatures. God creates man from dust and put him in the Garden of Eden. He also creates woman from man's rib. In the end man and women were expelled from Garden of Eden and become humans. The questions are what we were before we become humans and what is it means to be a human?
When God creates a man it said that He creates him in his image. That tell us that man is God a like creature. God also creates a woman in image of man and there fore woman also is God a like creature. There fore in the rest of the paper I will use word man but it will include woman too. That what make man different from other creatures. In the Garden of Eden He says to them. "You may
Another aspect we can point out from the passage above and other passages. That was said to man and to all other creatures. "Behold I have Give you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food." The first passage tells us that when God creates earth He creates good and evil. And from the second passage tells us that good and evil were in balance because all creatures live in peace among them self. There were no killings since all creatures including man were vegetarians since they were told to have every green plant for food.
When man eats from the tree of knowledge of good and evil he would beco
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