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Karthus Aram

The Creation of the World

The Creation of the World

Genesis is the first book of the Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy), the first section of the Jewish and the Christian Scriptures. Its title in English, “Genesis,” comes from the Greek of literally, “the book of the generation (genesis) of the heavens and earth.” Its title in the Jewish Scriptures is the opening Hebrew word, Bereshit, “in the beginning.” The book has two major sections—the creation and expansion of the human race, and the story of Abraham and his descendants. The first section deals with God and the nations, and the second deals with God and a particular nation, Israel. The opening creation account lifts up two themes that play major roles in each section—the divine command to the first couple (standing for the whole race) to produce offspring and to possess land In the first section, progeny and land appear in the form of births and genealogies and allotment of land, and in the second, progeny and land appear in the form of promises of descendants and land to the ancestors. Another indication of editing is the formulaic introduction, “this is the story; these are the descendants” (Hebrew tōledôt), which occurs five times in Section I and five times in Section II. For the literary sources of Genesis, see Introduction to the Pentateuch. As far as the sources of Genesis are concerned, contemporary readers can reasonably assume that ancient traditions were edited in the sixth or fifth century B.C. for a Jewish audience that had suffered the effects of the exile and was now largely living outside of Palestine. The editor highlighted themes of vital concern to this audience: God intends that every nation have posterity and land; the ancestors of Israel are models for their descendants who also live in hope rather than in full possession of what has been promised; the ancient covenant with God is eternal, remaining valid even when the human party has been unfaithful. By highlighting such concerns, the editor addressed the worries of exiled Israel and indeed of contemporary Jews and Christians. How should modern readers interpret the creation-flood story in Genesis. The stories are neither history nor myth. “Myth” is an unsuitable term, for it has several different meanings and connotes untruth in popular English. “History” is equally misleading, for it suggests that the events actually took place. The best term is creation-flood story. Ancient Near Eastern thinkers did not have our methods of exploring serious questions. Instead, they used narratives for issues that we would call philosophical and theological. They added and subtracted narrative details and varied the plot as they sought meaning in the ancient stories. Their stories reveal a privileged time, when divine decisions were made that determined the future of the human race. The origin of something was thought to explain its present meaning, e.g., how God acts with justice and generosity, why human beings are rebellious, the nature of sexual attraction and marriage, why there are many peoples and languages. Though the stories may initially strike us as primitive and naive, they are in fact told with skill, compression, and subtlety. They provide profound answers to perennial questions about God and human beings. The stories about Jacob and his twelve sons are united by a geographical frame: Jacob lives in Canaan until his theft of the right of the firstborn from his brother Esau forces him to flee to Paddan-Aram (alternately Aram-Naharaim). There his uncle Laban tricks him as he earlier tricked his brother. But Jacob is blessed with wealth and sons. He returns to Canaan to receive the final blessing, land, and on the way is reconciled with his brother Esau. As the sons have reached the number of twelve, the patriarch can be given the name Israel. The blessings given to Abraham are reaffirmed to Isaac and to Jacob. I hope that you all like this book!
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AURORA

AURORA

The world of Aram and the 4 continents; Eve, Perseus, Asia and Virgo was created by a powerful Goddess named Ariel however she gave two brothers the authority to govern the natives of this world. The two archangels: Gabriel the older brother was given the book of life, a powerful Celestial Artifact to govern the natives towards the soul realm {It can also be used in creating new races and much more}, and then there was Capras the younger brother who was given the book of Death, to keep track of the souls. Elves, pixies, fairies, centaurs, bubals, humans, demi-humans, sylphs, druids… the list goes on. The two were to never interfere directly in the mortal world; however, that rule was broken when Capras fell in love with a mortal with an incredibly miserable back story. He directly interfered and because of that Gabriel also had to interfere. Reincarnation with the formers memory intact was a serious rule break thus a fight between the two brothers commenced. It was a fight which could not be avoided, the jealousy and envy for years on being the GODDESS’ES favorite hit the mark. Gabriel put himself into an endless sleep to put his brother down; however, the kin of Capras was already in the body of his lover while Gabriel gave his power to every race depending on their races innate abilities. Capras swore on his life to destroy his brother’s and the Goddess’s creations. The kin of Capras became the demon Overlord and with his demon soldiers was currently dominating the world, a few people led others and their kind into battle and managed to seal the demon Overlord and the person that made this possible was, THE SAKURA TREE FAIRY WITCH “AURORA”. I hope you will enjoy this light novel fantasy with adventure, suspense and probably a little bit of romance. Support my story
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