According to the Bible, Cain and Abel were the first humans born in the traditional way, rather than being molded out of dirt and ribs like their parents. They also mark a couple of other notable firsts: the first person to die and the first person to murder. The Bible tells us Cain and Abel both made offerings to God and God liked Abel's and hated Cain's, so Cain took Abel into a field and killed him...
According to the Bible, Cain and Abel were the first humans born in the traditional way, rather than being molded out of dirt and ribs like their parents. They also mark a couple of other notable firsts: the first person to die and the first person to murder. The Bible tells us Cain and Abel both made offerings to God and God liked Abel's and hated Cain's, so Cain took Abel into a field and killed him...
The Bible is known as the "greatest story ever told," which is not bad considering it doesn't have even a single scene set in Westeros. People who use this phrase are presumably referring to the sublime beauty of the book or the impact it had on their lives, as opposed to the Bible's value as a work of fiction. That's because the Bible's multi-millennia narrative isn't the sort of sweeping, expert piece of storytelling you'd expect from Game of Thrones. It's the sort of sprawling, convoluted mess you'd expect from the worst seasons of Lost...
You don't need to attend church to know the basic story of Adam and Eve. The Jewish and Christian creation story is ubiquitous. In the beginning, God has a creative frenzy, culminating in Adam. Adam gets lonely, so God makes him a partner, Eve, out of one of his ribs. Everything is great until a talking snake comes along and tells Eve to eat an apple, even though God specifically said not to...
Reading the Bible, especially the Book of Genesis, one may be fascinated with the idea of the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve first lived in the Garden of Eden, and it was here that the Tree of Life was located. The Garden of Eden supposedly had everything Adam and Eve needed to survive, and they were forbidden to leave. When God created Adam, he was placed within the Garden, or as the Ancient History Encyclopedia explained, "in the east side of Eden." It is painted as a luxurious place, luxury mainly referring more to food and foliage than to satin sheets, of course. But when the serpent tempted Eve to get fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, both Eve and Adam were cast out of paradise...
Few ancient texts arouse quite the same curiosity as the Book of Enoch, a Jewish text attributed to Noah's great-grandfather that was, as some sensationally put it, "forbidden from the Bible" for revealing mystic secrets about the mysteries of creation. It's a book full of lusty fallen angels, cannibalistic giants, strange cosmology, and revelations about the end of the world...
