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In the dawn of humanity , in the Garden of Eden , God clearly identified the roles of man and woman , put them tasks to complete and commandments to follow . He created them in His own image , so that Adam and Eve would reflect God 's love on the earth and have relationship with their Creator . God said : Be fruitful , and multiply , and replenish the earth , and subdue it : and have dominion over . every living thing (Gen . 1 :28 . Therefore , first people had responsibilities to work in the

br garden . Adam had the only commandment to obey - not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil . Until they disobeyed it , Adam and Eve enjoyed God 's blessings in the Garden but , later on , after the fall they , in full measure , realized the burden of curse . As the ancestors of all humankind , they have started the closed cycle of life and death good and evil , responsibilities and aspirations to God

Noah , the descendant of Seth , after his birth has received the blessing of Lamech (his father , which stated : this same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands , because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed (Gen . 5 :29 . When God has decided to destroy all people for their wickedness , Noah found grace in His eyes because he was just and perfect in his generation . Bible states that he walked `with God

So , Noah , who was born around 1056 after the creation of earth (Adam lived 930 years , knew about the process of creation , the fall the substitutive sacrifice , the destructive power of sin . Therefore , he was obedient to His commandments , tried not to sin . The construction of Ark proves it , because he completed it according to God 's instructions according to all that God commanded him , so did he (Gen . 6 :22 Thus , he showed the example of true faith and obedience . He was also responsible to make the ark and to preach to other people about God 's judgment

After the flood , Noah built an altar , for he knew that only by God 's mercy and love he and his family were saved , because all have sinned and come short of the glory of God (Rom

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3 :22 . This offering have d the Lord and He made a covenant with Noah and his descendants that the earth will not be destroyed by flood any more and the sign of this covenant is still visible today - a rainbow . Then God had blessed Noah and his sons with the same blessing as He blessed Adam and Eve : be fruitful , and multiply , and replenish the earth (Gen . 9 :1

But even after the flood , the hearts of men were stoned by sin and the very son of Noah , Ham (the father of Canaan , seeing his father uncovered , sinned against him , and by this deed was cursed a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren , but Shem and Japheth...