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Adam and Eve
The account of Adam and Eve is one of the world's best known creation stories. It also serves as the basis for three major world religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Typical questions by contributors include the story's relationship to other religious writings, parallels with other creation stories, impacts on world art and literature, and collaboration by science.
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What do fundamentalists believe in?
Christian fundamentalists believe that the Bible is the inerrant word of God and everything within its pages is literal truth. Therefore most fundamentalists believe that Adam was the first human created directly from the ground around 6000 years ago, and Eve was literally created from the rib or the side of Adam. They also believe that around 4500 years ago there was a global flood that destroyed all of life that lives on dry land except for just eight humans including Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives, plus an ark full of animals, birds and insects (in most cases two of every kind). However, there are among fundamentalists those who interpret these accounts differently more inline with an older creation and a relatively localized flood.
What is the Jewish interpretation of Adam and Eve?
Christian Answer:
According to Jewish belief, Adam and Eve were the direct ancestors of all mankind. Additionally, they were the direct ancestors of the Hebrew people. Indeed, the Old Testament traces the lines of descent from Adam and Eve, to Heber, in honor of whom the Hebrew people are named. The lines of descent in fact are traced beyond him and include among others Abraham, as the first world famous Hebrew.
Jewish Answer:
According to Jewish tradition, they were the first people God created. However, most Jews recognize this as a traditional story, and do not take it literally. Furthermore, The story was meant to explain God's role in creation and where the Sabbath came from, and NOT the concept of original sin, or the scientific explanation of creation.
The snake is not Satan (Satan isn't even mentioned once in the book of Genesis), and we didn't inherit any sin from Adam & Eve.
Did Adam father children with his daughters?
Adam did not father children with his daughters. The first recorded man to be involved in Bigamy (two wives) was Lamech.
So, wouldn't their maker simply have made them capable of giving birth and populating the earth as s/he wanted/planned? By either they birthing people of many types or providing the (genetic) ability to produce humans of many types. (Including the caucasions of many hair, eye, size and other differences). Note additional thought on Discussion page.
You realize of course that in Bibles or religious art in say Asia, the characters have Asian characterisitics, as in ones for Africa they have African traits?
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From a young age I was bothered by the prospect of all of us descending from Adam and Eve because there would have to be incest involved. dI knew there had to be more to the story. As I eventually learned the universal language of mind and verified it's validity through my dreams, I began to understand how it applied to scriptures. In this language, the bible tells a story about me and my development. Adam is the subconscious mind and Eve is the conscious mind. The committment of this union allows for our progressive spiritual growth. To intellectualize it is grossly inefficient. Once we have developed enough, we begin to relate more and more to what is in subconscious mind. It takes direct experience. Meditation actually causes the two parts of mind to function together. Thereal information was hidden so we would have to put in some effort to find it.
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AnswerThere is nothing to suggest that they were Caucasian. Either way, given what is now known about the very little genetic differences between the races, there is every reason that dark skinned races could have come from light skinned people, and light-skinned from dark as well. See the Web Link 'Skin Deep' for some information on this.Blacks originated form Noah's son Ham. After the earth was destroyed by the flood, Noah's family began the population anew. His three sons, Shem, Japeth, and Ham were scattered around the world. Ham went to where the darker skin people originated, Eygpt, Africa, etc.
Another AnswerAdam and Eve was black.see related link "Origin of Black Mankind Affirmed!" on left ..
So the question to be asked really is; "Where did the white race originated?"
I think I figured this one out.the whole question of Adam and eve.here is an answer that might make some kind of sense.If you recall in most religious texts or bibles the same thing happened to Adam and eve before they bit into the fruit they did not even know they we're naked.So is it possible that the importance of the their ethnics has been an issue for this long because after they bit into the fruit of life could it have been before that sense they did not know they we're nake how are they going to know what race theywe're?So could it be that the origin of sin is the importance of ethniticity.Imagine what it would be like if noone knew what race they we're imagine how this would have changed history?the question is insane but, it does make sense also.
Why was man driven out of the garden of Eden?
By disobeying God's command, Adam demonstrated that too much leisure would be detrimental to him. God sent him out of the Garden, where he would now have to till the land in order to eat (Genesis ch.3).
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Man had the freedom of choice: to obey God and be blessed or disobey God and be separated from a relationship with God.
The man and the woman disobeyed God and were driven out of the garden to fend for them selves.
This demonstrated that mankind has freedom of choice. Today we can still choose good or bad, restore our relationship with God and have life or continue to rebel against God and have death.
What does the snake represent in the story of Adam and Eve?
According to Christian writer C.S. Lewis, the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil" does not have to represent a sin of literally 'eating a forbidden, magical apple,' but that perhaps it is more accurate to consider Adam and Eve's act of choosing their individual wills over the desires of God as the ultimate offense.
According to the Shorter Catechism, the chief end (or main purpose) of man is "...to glorify God and enjoy Him forever." therefore, by eating the fruit, Adam and Eve choose to reject God as the ultimate source of purpose and happiness in their lives, and instead choose to follow their own desires.
Regardless of the inherent powers of the trees of the Garden of Eden (the "Tree of Life" and the "Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil"), Adam and Eve's sin is one of rejecting God's will, and choosing their own.
What were the consequences of original sin for Adam and eve?
purity == They lost what are called the "Preternatural gifts" as well as sanctifying grace, for they had been created in a state of union with God. These Preternatural gifts included immortality, impassibility (that is freedom from all sickness and injury as well as despotic control over the emotions), freedom from concupiscence (despotic control over the lower passions), incorruptible knowledge (they were given infused knowledge and could never reason improperly or forget), and lordship over the earth (obedience of all creation to their direction).
What one thing did god tell Adam and Eve not to touch?
Well, if we take the word "eat" into the Hebrew it means many things and not just to eat by mouth. In the Strong Concordance in the Hebrew it stands for chalah (H-2470) meaning to be rubbed or worn. So, many preachers in the world today are really not teaching the Word of God the way it really should be studied and disected. It's the same question that many ask about what type of fruit orchard were Adam and Eve in when God was calling them. It surely wasn't an apple orchard folks! Please read on and on and on to find out what God has for us in His Word. He sent His only begotten Son to show us what The Living God has for us through The Living Word of Jesus Christ Himself.
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Adam and Eve were to enjoy the fruit of every tree, except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. However, as far as we know, God only commanded Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit of the tree:
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die." Gen 2:16-17
The "do not touch" clause" is a possible addition of the original command, on the part of Eve herself:
2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' " Gen 3:2
How long did Adam and Eve live?
The Bible is not clear on this score - Genesis 5:4 simply says that Adam begat sons and daughters. However, the story of Adam and Eve is not supported by science and thus not everyone literally believes in the biblical account. Either way, we do not know.
Could Adam and Eve go to Heaven before they sinned?
The Bible says that "God planted a garden in Eden." After God created Adam and Eve, He put them in the garden of Eden and told them: "Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it." (Genesis 1:28; 2:8, 9, 15) So it was God's purpose for them to have children, extend the boundaries of that garden home earth wide, and take care of the animals. So if they would of went to heaven, God's purpose would not of been fulfill. And God always fulfil his purpose.
How did Adam and Eve come about?
Genesis 1:1-47 (New International Version)
Genesis 1The Beginning1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [Answers.com] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning-the first day.
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning-the second day.
9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.
11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning-the third day.
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights-the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning-the fourth day.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning-the fifth day.
24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [Answers.com] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground-everything that has the breath of life in it-I give every green plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning-the sixth day.
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Who are the models in the Adam and eve commercial holding signs?
Pretty sure Charlie Laine is one with short hair. Pornstar who does mostly lesbian videos
Was the story of Adam and Eve an allegory?
Well, let me see:
Adam & Eve -- fathered all of mankind.
Adam & Eve -- by their disobedience to what Jehovah God required of them; they sinned.
Since all mankind was born after that sin; being in their loins as future offspring; when they sinned, they sold all of their future offspring into slavery; slavery of sin, and its resulting sickness and ultimately death. We cannot pay the price to get out of that slavery.
Jehovah God in his great Love; Justice; and wisdom; announced that He would undo what Adam caused. He would send his only begotten heavenly son to earth - - to pay the price for our being repurchased back into God's family.
Jesus did everything necessary to pay that price.
Soon, with his Kingdom power, Jesus will have his kings and priests help him, to repair mankind, and bring any who desire to be obedient to God, will bring them back to the perfect state of Adam & Eve before they sinned. Jesus will give 'the meek' their true inheritance; "the meek will inherit THE EARTH"; which will have "an abundance of peace", not yet seen on earth.
That's how the 2 stories are linked.
Did Adam father children with anyone other than eve?
Lilith is not actually mentioned in the Bible, but in popular myth, she was Adam's first wife, but she quarrelled with him and flew away, because he would not let her be on top when having sex. God sent three angels who threatened the daily death of one hundred of her children if she did not return to Adam. She refused and suffered the threatened punishment. Now, because of this, she attacks the newborn children of others.
The chilli burnt twice for the final time... and chicken wings.
Who was the first person that you know lived lived?
If you're religious, consult your religious scriptures; they'll probably tell you.
If you're not ... it depends on what you consider "a person" and unless you're using an EXTREMELY restricted definition whoever it was lived a long time before recorded history started.
What day did Adam and Eve worship?
According to Genesis, God walked around and talked to Adam in person, so they would not seem to have needed to pray, at least not while they were in the Garden of Eden. == Also according to Genesis, Adam and Eve were more in a parent-child relationship with The All Mighty. After the Fall it seems to be reasonable to assume that they made sacrifices and taught their children to do so because Cain and Able were recorded as doing so. Worship, as we understand the term, did not seem to be a feature in their daily lives. That they knew that they were created appears to be obvious, and that they made supplication to God is understood throughout the Genesis account. But the term "worship" as we apply it does not appear to be a formalized practice.
No there were no women created before Eve. look up Genesis 2:20-25. I hope this answers your question. please respond thxs :)
*In Jewish folklore there was one woman before Eve named Lilith. She and Adam had a dispute over whom should be on top during sex. He refused to let her take the dominant role, and she fled the garden in a rage. Later stories have her becoming a demon or the first vampire who preyed soley upon first-born children.
There is a twofold answer to this question. First, it is believed that Satan was cast out of heaven for his pride, taking 1/3 of the angels with him.
The second part of his punishment has not happened yet. According to the book of Revelation, he will be cast into the lake of fire (hell), where he will be tormented eternally with all those who rejected the salvation of the Lord Jesus.
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God sent Satan to the bottomless pit.
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Satan and his demons have not received their punishment, yet. At the present time, they are merely "restrained" from exercising their full power.
"...For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell (tartarus- a condition of restraint, imprisonment or incarceration), and delivered them into chains of darkness, TO BE RESERVED UNTO JUDGMENT... the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the Day of Judgment to be punished..." (II Peter 2:4-9).
"...the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the Judgment of the Great Day." (Jude 1:6)
As a matter of biblical fact... God is going to allow His saints to decide the punishment of Satan and his angels at the Last Day.
"Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world?... Know ye not that WE SHALL JUDGE ANGELS?" (I Cor.6:2-3)
God's plan isn't done, yet. He is presently using the restrained angels that sinned to teach man all about evil... so that man might appreciate the everlasting mercy of God that's coming at the Last Day.
God's annual holy Day of Atonement points to the day when Jesus returns to "lay the sins of the world on Satan's head," that He has been carrying for His special creation, man, all this time.
Jesus: "...shall lay both His hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of... (the world)... and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: and the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited..." (Lev.16:21-22).
"And I saw angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the Dragon, that old Serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years..." (Rev.20:1-2).
The Judgment... and the punishment... is reserved for the Last Day.
Adam and Eve weren't born.
Genesis 2:7 The Lord formed the man from soil on the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.
God put Adam into a deep sleep, took out some of his side, and put flesh there. (Genesis 2:21)
That was how God created Adam and Eve.
When was the first man on earth?
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Modern humans have existed on earth for over 200,000 years, so it is not possible to know who was the first man born, even if we limit ourselves to modern humans (Homo sapiens) and not our ancestral species. In any event, there can no have been one first modern human, because evolution takes place so slowly.
What other gifts Adam and Eve posses before the fall?
Potentially many... and it varies depending on the version you read, but many accounts indicate that they had bodies that were basically immortal... they didn't have to sleep, worry about getting sick, and nothing could harm them physically... the animals deferred to them and never attacked. They never got scratches or cuts, etc. Additionally, it seems that they were outside of time in some way, not experiencing the day/night cycle.
Do Islams believe in Adam and Eve?
Yes. He was the first man and he was a prophet. He commited a sin, but was forgiven; he ended up being granted blessings. He will return to Paradise when the time comes, but he will get everything he wants this time.
