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Son of God: The Fall and the God of Israel POWERPOINT 5B

Son of God: The Fall and the God of Israel POWERPOINT 5B. Red Letter Outline. How is Michelangelo’s painting similar to and different from Genesis? What is Cranach highlighting in the painting ?

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Son of God: The Fall and the God of Israel POWERPOINT 5B

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  1. Son of God: The Fall and the God of IsraelPOWERPOINT 5B

  2. Red Letter Outline • How is Michelangelo’s painting similar to and different from Genesis? • What is Cranach highlighting in the painting? • What are the consequences of God’s punishments for the snake, woman, and man? (note the disruption of relations) • List and explain three good reasons for punishment. • List some aspects of the relationship between God and evil, according to Genesis 3. • List some aspects of the relationship between humans and evil, according to Genesis 3.

  3. Prayer of the Weekattributed to Mother Teresa: “Anyway” People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered.  Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.  Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies.  Succeed anyway. If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you.  Be honest and sincere anyway. What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight.  Create anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.  Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten.  Do good anyway. Give the best you have, and it will never be enough.  Give your best anyway. In the final analysis, it is between you and God.  It was never between you and them anyway.

  4. Michelangelo – Sistine Chapel

  5. Michelangelo and Genesis Similarities - “in his image” (similar) - strength (dominion) • separation (heaven/earth) • care, concern Differences - Mode of creation (neither clay nor speaking) - Presence of angels (not mentioned in Genesis) - Concern of angels (statement about Fall)

  6. Adam & EveLucas Cranach the Elder

  7. Adam & Eve: Lucas Cranach the Elder What is Cranach highlighting in the painting? Eve after sin: • Left side emphasized; pale deathlike complexion; serpent turned toward her; covetous expression on her face; harsh angles, grasping Adam before sin: • Right side emphasized; healthier complexion; softer angles; searching conscience Animals affected by sin: • Saddened; loss of garden and original goodness; loss of life

  8. Genesis 3 – Relations disrupted What are the consequences of God’s punishments for the snake, woman, and man? (note the disruption of relations) • The snake, who could communicate with the woman, is now repulsive to her and must crawl • The woman, original companion to the man, is now “ruled” by him; childbearing difficult • The man’s relation to woman is changed; his relation to “the ground” - and thus to himself! (adam-adamah) becomes difficult

  9. Philosophical Digression:3 ethical reasons for punishment List and explain three good reasons for punishment. • To teach a lesson (e.g. repentance) • The one who is punished learns something about themselves and is led to virtue • To prevent evil (e.g., to not sin) • The threat of punishment creates an awareness that doing the good is preferable • To bring about justice (e.g., what is “fair”) • The injustice done in the evil is brought back into “balance” through a punishment

  10. Genesis 3: The Fall (God and evil) List some aspects of the relationship between God and evil, according to Genesis 3. • God is good: • He makes a beautiful and good place of life; God is not evil in any way; • Evil does appear to have kind of existence before us -the serpent tempts us: • While Genesis does not explain where the serpent’s evil comes from, it does describe the experience of temptation to evil with which all are familiar; • Evil seems to blossom from our wrong choices: • the temptation comes NOT from God, but from the serpent and our choices; • God abhors the evil, yet “knows” what it is all about, seeking to protect us from it; but God allows evil: • permissionis not causation

  11. Genesis 3: The Fall (Humans and evil) List some aspects of the relationship between humans and evil, according to Genesis 3. • Humans, while good, have become ensnared in evil • the chapter creates a “diptych” with Ch. 2 - like a two paneled work of art) – flip side of creation; • Humans go astray from their original goodness • This is of their own will, and introduces sin and death; • Humans choose to follow the serpents suggestions, against the clear will of God • The serpent is “cunning” (deceptive for own ends), yet the humans should know better • The human condition as we know it (with death, suffering) is the result of sin and punishment, • This is as God originally desires it to be for us.

  12. Terms Diptych: two paneled work of art Subtle: not immediately clear Cunning: using subtlety and deceit to achieve one’s own ends Etiology: explanation of origins Etiological: offering an explanation of origins

  13. Christian Doctrine 1 / Dr. Billings Son of God: The Fall and the God of Israel

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