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And Elohim Created Adam, William Blake. In Genesis, the name "Adam" is given to the first human. [4] Beyond its use as the name of the first man, the Hebrew word adam is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as "mankind". [4]
So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." [16]" [New Revised Standard Version]. The word adam may refer to that this being was an "earthling" formed from the red-hued clay of the earth (in Hebrew, adom means "red", adamah means "earth"). [17]
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made He him. Male and female created He them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth.
According to hadiths, Adam was created in God's own image, and according to 2:31 of the Qur'an, was "taught all the names [by God]", thus establishing the notion of Adam as a reflection of God's divine attributes. By that, Adam does not feature as a prophet or a male human being only, but also encapsulates the idea of an ideal human archetype. [12]
The creation of Adam as Protoanthropos, the original man, is the focal concept of these writings. Another Gnostic tradition held that Adam and Eve were created to help defeat Satan. The serpent, instead of being identified with Satan, is seen as a hero by the Ophites. Still other Gnostics believed that Satan's fall, however, came after the ...
The basis for many creationists' beliefs is a literal or quasi-literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis.The Genesis creation narratives (Genesis 1–2) describe how God brings the Universe into being in a series of creative acts over six days and places the first man and woman (Adam and Eve) in the Garden of Eden.
There is comfort in work. The angels taught Adam the work of agriculture, all the trades, and also how to work in iron. [22] The invention of writing was ascribed to Adam. The garments made by God for Adam were not of skin (עור), but of light (אור), [23] and robes of glory were made of the serpent's skin. [24]
The doctrine of the fall of man is extrapolated from the traditional Christian exegesis of Genesis 3. [11] [1] According to the biblical narrative, God created Adam and Eve, the first man and woman in the chronology of the Bible. [1] God placed them in the Garden of Eden and forbade them to eat fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and ...