Outline of Genesis and Plato

Genesis

1.  God created the world

• He did not do it over night; it took time.  He did it over six days

2.   The heavens and Earth were finished and on the 7th day he rested.  This is the Sabbath
3.  Adam and Eve

• God gave them instructins and they disobeyed
• They were not allowed to eat from the tree of knowledge
• Adam fell into the disobedience because Eve told him it was okay
• The punishment helped them to learn the difference between good and evil
• There is a value of learning from your mistakes but you still pay for your consequences

4.  Cain and Abel

• Cain kills his brother Abel
• The lord puts a mark on Cain so that no one who comes across him can kill him
• A long line of decendants came from Cain, all who were affected by Cain killing his brother

5.  Adam's Decendants to Noah and his sons

•  All humans were created under good.  They were all good, and the were called "Humankind"

6. The Wickedness of Humankind

• The Lord regrets making Humankind because they sin and they can be evil
• Since God saw the Earth as eveil, it became more evil and he decides to wash out the sins
• He tells Noah to build an ark and put two of every animal on it

7. The Great Flood

• The Lord tells Noah to pack up the ark
• just as the Lord created the Earth in seven days, he drestroyed it in seven days by flooding everything

8.  The Flood Subsides

• God restores the Earth for Noah and the creatures on the ark
• Noah lets all of the animals go so they can multiply to fill the Earth
• God states that never again will he destroy every creature on the Earth

9.  The Covenant with Noah

• God promises Noah that he will never again flood the Earth.  He states that no one shall harm another human, because everyone is made in Humankind.

10.  Nations Decended from Noah

• After the flood, there came many decendants
• From these decendants came nations and kingdoms
• The Earth seems to replenish after the flood

11.  Tower of Babel

• The people built a tower to the heavens
• The Lord scattered the people all around the Earth and confused the languages
• The people continued to multiply

*Battlestar is like Noah's arc because just like Noah took 2 of everything, they only let certain people on the ship



Plato

• tells a story to a man about a bunch of prisoners
• if the people walking by saw their shadows, that would be the only way they would live.  they would never see actual objects
• if they showed these people the real person, would they believe that eality was actually a reality
• people are forced to look at the wall... one of them gets out.
• he goes up (because the people are in a cave)
• he hurts his eyes, he has a hard time accepting the new reality
• he goes back down, and the people do not believe him
• he goes from the darkness to the light, then he goes back to help the people who are still there