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  2. Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan - Wikipedia

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    In Book 1, the punished Serpent attempts to kill Adam and Eve, but is prevented by God, who again punishes the Serpent by rendering it mute and casting it to India. [7] Satan also attempts to deceive and kill Adam and Eve several times. In one of his attempts on their life, he throws a boulder which ends up encompassing Adam and Eve.

  3. Paradise Lost - Wikipedia

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    John Carey argues that this conflict cannot be solved, because the character of Satan exists in more modes and greater depth than the other characters of Paradise Lost: in this way, Milton has created an ambivalent character, and any "pro-Satan" or "anti-Satan" argument is by its nature discarding half the evidence. Satan's ambivalence, Carey ...

  4. Serpent seed - Wikipedia

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    By this principle, God divided fallen Adam and Eve into two through their two children. Cain represented Satan, and Abel represented sinless Adam. Hence God placed Abel, the second son, in the internal position. Abel represented the second love between Adam and Eve, which contained fewer evil elements, while Cain was the fruit of the first love.

  5. Forbidden fruit - Wikipedia

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    A Gnostic interpretation of the story proposes that it was the archons who created Adam and attempted to prevent him from eating the forbidden fruit in order to keep him in a state of ignorance, after the spiritual form of Eve entered the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil while leaving a physical version of herself with Adam once she ...

  6. Religious views of John Milton - Wikipedia

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    In the story, Adam and Eve are warned against the evils of Satan and are told of the war in Heaven in which Satan challenged God's throne and was cast down in punishment. Satan, in order to get revenge against God, tempts Eve into eating of the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and Adam, out of love, joins with her in ...

  7. Theodicy and the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Adam and Eve were created with "free will," that is, "the ability to choose either good or evil." [ 79 ] The Fall evidences that Adam and Eve were not created with the freedom that Paul calls being "slaves of righteousness" (Romans 6:18): a phrase that denotes "freedom to obey God – willingly, joyfully, naturally."

  8. Adam and Eve - Wikipedia

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    C. L. Moore's 1940 story Fruit of Knowledge is a re-telling of the Fall of Man as a love triangle between Lilith, Adam and Eve – with Eve's eating the forbidden fruit being in this version the result of misguided manipulations by the jealous Lilith, who had hoped to get her rival discredited and destroyed by God and thus regain Adam's love.

  9. William Blake's illustrations of Paradise Lost - Wikipedia

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    Satan Arousing the Rebel Angels: Satan, Sin, and Death: Satan Comes to the Gates of Hell: Christ offers to Redeem Man: Satan Spying on Adam and Eve and Raphael's Descent into Paradise: Satan Watching the Endearments of Adam and Eve: Adam and Eve Asleep: Raphael Warns Adam and Eve: The Rout of the Rebel Angels: The Creation of Eve: The ...