Genesis: The Beginning

I would like to start by evaluating Adam and Eve and coming of knowledge and mortality to humans. There are two trees (one of life, immortality, and one of knowledge). God specifically says to ADAM that he may not eat from the tree of knowledge. Once God creates Eve (referred to as woman) no one other than the serpent told her about the trees of knowledge and life. The temptation would be too great for any human. Every has the desire to discover, learn about something. I don't think Eve should be blamed for the serpent's trickery. It is human nature that caused her to do so. But on the other hand, some view it that human nature developed from the knowledge. I think that the door swings both ways. In some aspects, Eve must have had some knowledge about her curiosity, but more knowledge also invokes curiosity.

Moving on in the book, sin is not mentioned, but murder certainly is! If God created man in the image of himself some questions come to mind including the following: Shouldn't all humans choose the correct path when temptation arises? (I guess not since Eve and Cain did not do so) Does this particularly exclude women or does God classify man as both men and women as some new interpretations think?

The most important thing I took from these chapters includes God's erratic behavior. First, he wants to kill all humans with a huge flood (real original by the way). Then, he proceeds to save enough animals and humans to repopulate the earth. And how did God choose Noah in the first place? I'm sure others had been just as devout and innocent as Noah. Also, God forces confusion upon the world by creating different languages, it is almost as though he fears humans will become too powerful for their own good. (They have knowledge, what could be next?) And destroying Sodom, is that entirely necessary. But again, God changes his mind for a few souls, when even more could have been innocent. The whole erratic behavior makes me feel as though could potentially be diagnosed with some mental disorder (Okay, its a bit of humor, not to be taken too seriously!)
A whole chapter of a blog could be devoted to Sarah and her one son. First, God refuses to let Sarah have any children at all. So Abraham sleeps with some slave girl at Sarah's command. Then after all the fighting and awkwardness of having a child by a different mother, God decides that maybe after Sarah reaches 100 years of age, she could bear children. But the child God essentially created is forced onto a burning alter by his father at the will of God. Could it get any more dramatic. I never realized the Bible could almost be a soap-opera.

Overall, I am really fascinated by the style of writing and the content of Genesis. All the people have different encounters with a different type of God it seems. It is very hard to get a clear image as to what God wishes his followers to act like when he changes his mind and never clearly develops one idea.