Earthly Paradise with Original Sin, Jan Brueghel, 1612, Dora Pamphilj Gallery, Rome, Italy And the LORD God commanded the man (adam), "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day you eat of it you shall die." Genesis 2:16-17 At first glance this painting, "Earthly Paradise with Original Sin" does not appear all that different from Brueghel's "Landscape With the Creation of the Animals."

Landscape with the Creation of the Animals, Jan Brueghel (1568-1625), Dora Pamphilj, Rome, Italy God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and morning, the sixth day. Genesis 1:31 The refrain of creation, "And God saw that it was good," in Genesis 1 reaches its climax with intensity, "God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good." Everything, indeed, and very are exclamation points of God's assessment that

Genesis Frontispiece Depicting Creation from the Luther Bible, 1st edition 1534 Displayed at a Luther Exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Art When God began to create the heavens and the earth, the earth was complete chaos, and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. Genesis 1:1-3 Before astronomers with land based and orbiting telescopes, before Galileo, Copernicus, and