exactly how we relate to our higher power. The search for this answer is so important to us

because once it is known, we will all know how to better serve God and be righteous. With this

knowledge, we will also attain a better understanding of the universe we live in and our exact

place therein. There have been many interpretations taken from the Bible of what exactly the

right answer is. Two different, conflicting viewpoints can easily be drawn from Genesis and The

Book of Job regarding the relationship between God and human beings.

In Genesis, God is presented as a superior being who's relationship with the human beings

that he created is similar to a friendship. "You pat my back, I'll pat yours" is an underlying theme

in many of the covenants and promises that he makes with Adam, Noah, Abraham, and other

humans. By making covenants with humans, God essentially provides a framework from which

people can easily understand how to lead a just life. To begin with, Genesis presents the story of

Adam and Eve, who are given life in paradise on the one sole condition that they do not eat from

life and perhaps the next. If this was not the case, there would be perhaps no point to saying

of knowledge of good and evil. When they break the one rule with which they were

While God shows his sense of justice by banishing Adam and Eve from the Garden of

by bringing him sacrifices when he is told, leaving his home country, and even gets ready to

The story of Job is followed by an epilogue, which contradicts the moral that the story

his understanding, by following God, he should be blessed because of God's sense of justice. The

the Adversary still suggests that the same motives are influencing Job; promises of splendor and

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