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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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Why is the serpent associated with evil?
The Bible associates the serpent in Eden with knowledge of good and evil, but the serpent in Numbers 21 is associated with healing. The serpent in Matthew 10:16 is Wisdom. In Genesis 49:17 the serpent is someone who attacks horses. In Exodus 7:9, God uses serpents to confound Pharaoh.
Proverbs 30:18-19 declares that the way of a serpent on a rock is "too wonderful for me". In Mark 16:18 they are the mark of God's chosen and the proof that God sent them. In John 3:14 the serpent is a type of Christ.
The serpent, Leviathan, in Psalms 74:13-14 is associated with the sea and is defeated by Yahwe in exactly the same way, and using almost exactly the same words as Ba'al defeats the serpent Lotan (the Ugaritic rendering of "Leviathan") in the Ugaritic Ba'al epic.
In Revelation 30, the serpent is declared to be Satan himself.
So saying that the serpent is associated with evil is an oversimplification. Different symbolic language uses "serpent" for different meanings.
AnswerThe serpent is associated with evil in Western cultures based on a Biblical story in which Satan took the form of the serpent to deceive Eve, and in others because of various myths where the main villain happens to be a snake. In many others, it is considered a force of good, and even as responsible for creation.
Who was Adam and Eves first child?
According to the book of Genesis, Cain was the first-born son of Adam and Eve. Genesis does not say whether they gave birth to any daughters.
What is meant by the original justice and holiness of Adam and Eve?
do not touch apple on tree give the most non violannce message of all time. Tree has feeling.
The holiness of Adam and Eve consisted in their being moral beings, after the image of their Creator. There was no evil or immorality within the garden of Eden until the devil entered.
Original justice was that which was meeted out to our first parents for their sin of disobedience, justice began with them and then passed on to Lucifer, who was himself, then, cast out of heaven. By getting Adam and Eve to sin the devil gained the upper hand. In sinning lay a forfeiture, which the devil took hold of, which simply put, he was given the power to open up hell, and to release all the demoms contained therein, of those who originaly had rebelled against their maker and had been cast out into the lower earth, the underworld, the hell that is there because of hellish spirits.
Were there any animals before Adam and Eve?
A purely biblical answer from the second creation story in Genesis, is that creation of Adam was the first act of creation and that all the animals were created after him. Eve was created last of all, after all the animals, because Adam had not been able to find a suitable companion among the animals that God brought to him.
Another biblical answer from the first creation story in Genesis (verses 1:1-2:4a), is all the animals were created before the first people (both male and female) were created.
A historical and scientific answer is that there were animals and even people millions of years before the time attributed to Adam and Eve.
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Dose Lilith have children with Adam?
No, she was pissed that Adam was fooling around with female animals, so she fled from paradise, to become the mother of demons
If Adam and Eve were the first people who did Cain marry?
The bible clearly says Adam had other sons and daughters.
Before Adam lived on earth who was the first person who lived on earth?
The Bible says that Adam was the first person on Earth, so according to that story noone lived on Earth before Adam.
Was there one Adam or two by that name?
The word Adam ('Adam) simply means 'man'. So it has always been a matter of personal choice for the translators whether to use the word 'man' or the name Adam. Clearly, if we reverse the usage in some instances, we do get a somewhat different story. Even as traditionally translated, there would seem to be disconnects between narratives about Adam, making it likely that the Yahwist stories really were about more than one Adam.
Some scholars say that the narrative commencing in Genesis chapter 5 begins a third, wholly independent creation story. It begins with saying that God created man in the likeness of God, both male and female, and called their name Adam. This appears to say there were many men called Adam, but would probably read more harmoniously if we read it as "called their name 'man' ". However, it goes on to say that Adam, an identified individual, lived 130 years and had a son called Seth, parallelling the Seth already born to the previous Adam in verse 4:25. There is then a genealogy of the descendants of Seth, that almost exactly matches the genealogy of the descendants of Cain in chapter 4.
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How did Adam and Eve create the ''original sin''?
Sin is the transgression of the law (the Ten Commandments) - I John 3:4.
Adam and Eve didn't create the original sin... Lucifer (Satan) did.
Jesus once said to a group of Jews who "believed on Him": "...Ye are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. HE WAS A MURDERER FROM THE BEGINNING, and abode not in the Truth, because there is no Truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and THE FATHER OF IT." (John 8:44)
Satan "fathered"... sired... originated anger, jealousy and murder, lust, disrespect for authority and God... and bearing false witness. These are God's laws of conduct, the breaking of which is "sin" and punishable by death. He "fathered" sin and did it first.
And it was he who introduced it to the first parents. They fell for his sales pitch... and made wrong choices. They chose to obey the Devil above God. They lusted after what was not theirs. They believed him when he told them that they were "immortal souls":
"...Ye shall not surely die..." (Gen.3:4).
Adam and Eve didn't create the original sin. They just obeyed the voice of the wrong god and introduced the sin that was already extant in the world to the human race.
According to the most accepted traditions Adam died around the year 3070 BC, 930 years after he was created by God in the year 4000 BC. Also, according to 'The Life of Adam and Eve', an Old Testament Apocrypha text, Eve died less than 100 days after her husband. The Bible is silent on when Eve passed away.
There are a number of schools of thought. The first is the God created the earth and all creatures on it in 6 days He then rested on the 7th. This would mean we are all descended from Adam and Eve.
Scientists believe that life on Earth started from the creation of one single cell. This developed over millions of years developing and mutating to the environment around it until there were a vast range of air breathing species. From here we see the development of mammals to a point we have today.
Some believe that the story of Adam and Eve was written to provide civilisations of long ago with a very,very simple explaination of how life on Earth started.
What was God's message to Adam and Eve during the six days of creation?
True, God did create Adam as his very first act of creation in the second creation story, but here there is no mention of six days and Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis) says that we must scrupulously avoid reading into the second story any facts or notions taken from the first.
Another answerIn Genesis 1:28ff God blesses the man and woman and tells them:
- be fruitful and multiply, replenish the earth.God gave man a mandate to subdue creation and have dominion over it-to use it but not abuse it.
- He has given them every herb and fruit for food.
This was not during the first six days man was created on the sixth day
What does it mean to be the third son of the third son of the third son?
It means you have (or had) at least two uncles and at least two great-uncles, and that is all it means.
How many day after Adam and Eve eat of tree of life did god call for them?
In the garden of Eden god came every evening to have a talk with Adam and eve, but when god came down after they had fallen in sin they were hiding and realized that they were naked. God chased them that time out of Eden for ever.
