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What is God like in the Bible from the creation to the fall? Is he this evil, mean, non-caring being that destroys all who oppose him, or is he a simple experimenter? There are several accounts in the book of Genesis that might help shed some light on this question. At the end of the seven days of the creation of the earth, He needed time to rest, almost like a scientist after putting a lot of work into something. God also informs Adam, God’s first experiment, of the tree from which he cannot eat, if Adam eats from this tree he will be severely punished. Perhaps God’s second experiment, Eve, let God down when she ate the apple. She then opened her eyes and learned of good and evil. The great flood can also been seen as a heartless thing to do to mankind, but perhaps God’s experiment, mankind, wasn’t able to make up for the evil that Eve had passed on and God needed to start over and try to fix his own mistakes in man. God sanctified the last day of the creation because that was his time rest from all the work he has done. This could be compared to a scientist or some other professional running an e