Bible and Morality

The Hebrew Bible version of Genesis is a philosophical document chronicling God?s need to always test Man?s obedience and the consequences of His disappointment with Man?s personal decisions. Man?s relationship with nature in this text is portrayed through his relationship with God wherein the acts, demands and covenants made by Him are what shape the natural world for Man. Therefore, God uses nature as a tool to make Man understand and choose ?good?, which is the reason He creates Man in the first place. Forces of nature and forces of God in the Hebrew Bible are both synonymous in the sense that they are both beyond Man?s control. God becomes displeased with the decisions of Man, after initially giving him true paradise and freedom in the Garden of Eden. He then banishes Man from there, leaving him to his own knowledge and reasoning to prove to Him that Man is inherently capable of good.
In Genesis, God is portrayed as a trusting creator, first of the universe, then of man,...