Gen. (week 2)

TO Lui´s thought:
hehe. interesting question and dialogue. Ja I think that even if they do not know directly what death is, they still know what it means to be alive as they were made as a living being.
"Gen2: 7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being."
So one possibility to understand (not know) what death is, is the opposite to living and the opposit of God´s will. Because God wants them to live, created them so that they may live.
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Something that I noticed is the change of the food. Before the flood it seems that all the creatures are vegetarians and only eating plants
" Gen1: 29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so."
But after the flood things changed. Beforhand man was only the ruler and keeper of the nature. But now there is fear in the relationship between human and all the other livings.
"Gen 9: 2 The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. 3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. "
It is somehow hard to imagine, that after being together with the animals in the limited space that the relationship becomes a prey and predator relationship.

Besides this I also want to share another place that I somehow like. It is in Gen4:6-7
6 Then the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? 7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it."
Here does God directly talk to Kain. I like more the german version. There it is in one sentence. "If you fear God than you can lift up your sight freely." As long as you do good and you know you do the right thing than there is no reason why you should downcast your face. But more often is it that we downcast our face because of anger or we are not happy and satisfied about one situation. Than we should remeber what God just had said to Kain. Sin is just sitting before your door and just waits for you to open. But instead of that we should be in a superiour position and lift your sight.

During last week I got really angry about one of my class mates. I just could not bear it how she behaved. After the lesson, when I changed the classroom I was still very angry and I thinkit could be sensed it in some way ^^. But after someone else just told me that he would not mind about something like that I reflected what happened and could get rid of the anger. When I was angry it was really difficult to come out of it and to get rid of it(not even to mention to forget about it). Cause I was not able to lift my sight and always thought with a downcasted face. So I hope that you all do better and rule over all this kind of things which will be a burden to our soul.