The book of Genesis is the story of creation according to the Hebrew text, God creates the world as a paradise, a lush green world that is good, a just world, God comes across as caring and fair. However later there are many stories within Genesis that question God's morality towards his creations. The seemingly just God is often shown to be mean, deceitful, and unequal in his treatment of his creations. As a result of God's duplicity, the men with whom He has made covenants, God's numerous prophets and their respective bloodlines, are often ambiguous and unjust. Because of God's mistreatment of humans, his favoring of certain individuals over others, and the fact that his own prophets are devious, God is actually a superficial and unjust being. Therefore, God's actions in Genesis show that it is his moral errors that create an unbalanced and chaotic world, full of cruelty and injustice. God's treatment of his creations is highlighted with contempt and disappointment many times throughout Genesis. At the beginning God creates Adam and his numerous companions, giving his creations free reign in the Garden of Eden, and in return asking them not to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge, but later it is one of God's own creations, the serpent, which forces man and woman to violate the word of God and eat from the tree of knowledge. Surely all parties are punished, with the man and woman banished from the Garden and forced to work the land for sustenance (New Oxford Annotated Bible, Gen. 2.7-3.19). The story of the Garden of Eden serves to demonstrate two major recurring themes in Genesis, God's creations failing his beliefs, and his subsequent punishment... middle of paper... freedom of choice, choice to improve oneself. All in all the book of Genesis shows God's deception. Even though God creates the earth, it is full of imbalance and disorganization as a result of his own actions. Since God's creations themselves are imperfect, sin will eventually overcrowd the good. Despite God's best attempts to instill order, all efforts are ultimately too little and too late. Although God's prophets seek to promote imagined goodness, they themselves are full of hypocrisy and moral failures. Indeed, God, by creating bonds with certain men, served to do nothing more than alienate the general population and create a sense of inequality in the human race. God as presented in Genesis is ultimately not a just and moral being, but is instead his own terrible deposition that creates and condones a disparate world.