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Research Question: Why Satan try to Make Thing go Wrong between Adam and Eve?

Malan, Solomon C. The Book of Adam and Eve: Also Called the Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan, a Book of the Early Eastern Church Translated from the Ethiopic, with Notes from the Kufale, Talmud, Midrashim, and Other Eastern Works. London: Williams and Norgate, 2009. Print.

The encounter of Adam and Eve and Satan was not a one day encounter. Malan Solomon in this work illustrates this point. According to them the Devil, before tricking them, looked for them, concerning causing them to disobey The Lord in various ways. In this work, The Book of Adam and Eve: Also Called the Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan, Malan Solomon make endeavors to give an account of the encounter between Satan and the first human beings, which they describes as the conflict of Adam and Eve, and Satan. This work also mentions the relationship of God with Satan at this time when Adam and Eve were tricked into disobedience.

Malan Solomon is vivid in the way he communicates his ideas in this work. His explanation is not only logic but also authentic as its based on the examples from the Bible and other related works, and also aligns with their ideas. As such, the work is not only valid but also relevant in this context.

Anderson, Gary A, Michael E. Stone, and Johannes Tromp. Literature on Adam and Eve: Collected Essays. Leiden: Brill, 2000. Internet resource.

For many centuries, the acts and destinies of the first-created human beings, Adam and Eve, have intrigued artists, story-tellers and theologians alike. This resource is a collection of works on the acts and destinies of the first God-created humans, Adam and Eve, written by some of the grandmaster scholars in the field. The volume is made up of two parts. The first portions engrosses the works of G.A. Anderson and M.E. Stone, close confederates, who for years, have concerted several studies on the affluent variety of the traditions of Adam and Eve, commencing with the "Life of Adam and Eve" forwards to the late medieval writings in Armenian. Edited by Johannes Tromp, the second part consists of papers read at the 1998 Leiden Symposium, and more particularly concentrates on the "Life of Adam and Eve" and their later encounter with Satan.

The validity of this volume lies in the fact that it holds accounts from various works of diverse authors. The fact that all these materials communicates almost the same voice about the encounter of Satan and Adam, and Eve puts this volume alongside truth as it communicates the Bible.

Forsyth, Neil. The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1989. Print.

This work cites Satan as the Old Enemy of humanity (Adam and Eve), and all the human generations. As such, the book is a story of the enmity of Satan and Adam and Eve, and the entire human race. It narrates how the conflict set in and the reasons, how it fared on and its consequences. Forsyth Neil calls this entire account, ‘the Combat Myth.’

Forsyth in the work is successful in bringing out the conflict between Satan and the first humans. He successfully explains the encounter using the narrations and examples from the Bible accounts. Especially with the use of examples from the Bible, ;The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth; is brought out as valid and appropriate.

Flaxman, Vivien. "'the Flight of Satan from Paradise' and 'adam and Eve': John Flaxman's Last Works?" The Burlington Magazine / Ed. Benedict Nicolson. (1980): 687-690. Print.

Flaxman Vivien, in this work talks about how Satan came to be, that is, evil and ceased from dwelling in heaven with God and other Angels and landed on Earth. In the work, Flaxman Vivien gives insights on the reasons that saw Satan come down to earth. The trick he played on Adam and Eve is one reason for this course, obviously and the main one in fact. On this case, Flexman also narrates the rationale, which led Satan to tricking the first human beings, Adam and Eve.

Flaxman’s drawing of illustrations and examples from the Bible and other related sources sits at the basis of his work’s relevance. The work is also easy to understand as it is an account of events, which flows from one to the other.

Thesis

The thesis of this paper is based on its research question, ‘Why Satan try to make thing go wrong between Adam and Eve?’ Other than the above resources, even the Bible does not explicitly answer the papers’ research question. As such, we should declare that the answer to the question does not explicitly come from the Scriptures but are the results of our observations and the interpretation of these observations. In the bibliographies above, Milan (102) hints that the source of Satan’ encounter with Adam and Eve was the fall of his relationship with God and Forsyth, (86) acknowledges the point. As Flexman, (201) writes, Satan wanted to have equal powers with God, hence an attempt to overthrow Him. The ‘Literature of Adam and Eve Collected Essays, explains that Satan’s tempting of Adam and Eve was due to this reason of Overthrowing God. It explains that, Satan wanted to these first humans, the creations of God himself to rebel against him, so that the Devil proves his influence and power of God as he wins support and amasses followers. Based on these insights, we can conclude that Satan makes things go wrong between Adam and Eve because he wanted to show God his powers and form his own government.