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  2. Adam and Eve - Wikipedia

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    Adam and Eve are the Bible's first man and first woman. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Adam's name appears first in Genesis 1 with a collective sense, as "mankind"; subsequently in Genesis 2–3 it carries the definite article ha , equivalent to English 'the', indicating that this is "the man". [ 9 ]

  3. Protoplast (religion) - Wikipedia

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    A protoplast, from ancient Greek πρωτόπλαστος (prōtóplastos, "first-formed"), in a religious context initially referred to the first human [1] or, more generally, to the first organized body of progenitors of humankind (as in Manu and Shatrupa or Adam and Eve), or of surviving humanity after a cataclysm (as in Deucalion or Noah).

  4. Adam - Wikipedia

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    Adam [c] is the name given in Genesis 1–5 to the first human. [4] Adam is the first human-being aware of God, and features as such in various belief systems (including Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism and Islam). [5] According to Christianity, Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This ...

  5. Adam in Islam - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, it is for her sake that he created Adam first. But as a matter of fact, the belief that Adam was created first and then came Eve is part of the Christian and Jewish faith. This is not at all part of the Islamic creed. There is no mention in the Qur'an about who was created first, Adam or Eve." [30]

  6. First man or woman - Wikipedia

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    First man may refer to: Protoplasts, a technical term for the legendary first people of any creation myth, including a list of first men and women in different traditions Adam and Eve, the first people in Abrahamic religions (Adam and Hawa in Islam; Adam and Chava in Judaism) Manu (Hinduism) and Shatarupa, the first people in Indian religions

  7. Dating creation - Wikipedia

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    The Bible begins with the Book of Genesis, in which God creates the Earth, the rest of the Universe, and the Earth's plants and animals, including the first humans, in six days. A second narrative begins with the first human pair, Adam and Eve , and goes on to list many of their descendants, in many cases giving the ages at which they had ...

  8. Genesis creation narrative - Wikipedia

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    The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth [a] of both Judaism and Christianity, [1] told in the Book of Genesis ch. 1–2. While the Jewish and Christian tradition is that the account is one comprehensive story, [2] [3] modern scholars of biblical criticism identify the account as a composite work [4] made up of two stories drawn from different sources.

  9. Primeval history - Wikipedia

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    The toledot of heaven and earth (Genesis 1:1–4:26) The Genesis creation narrative (the combined Hexameron or six-day cosmic creation-story of Genesis 1 and the human-focused creation-story of Genesis 2) The Eden narrative (the story of Adam and Eve and how they came to be expelled from God's presence) Cain and Abel and the first murder