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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] Genesis 1 tells of God's creation of the world and its creatures, including the Hebrew word adam, meaning humankind.
Doesn't worry me now'", insisting that the church only requires the belief that Adam was the first man of '"what we would call the human race."' [6] [67] In 2004, an official church magazine printed a quote from Hinckley from a 1983 speech where he expressed a similar sentiment.
The names "Adam" and "Eve" are titles that reflect their roles as the parents of humanity, Adam meaning man or "[father] of mankind" and Eve meaning the "mother[s] of all living."The privilege of peopling the Earth was part of Adam and Eve's eternal purpose as exalted beings and eternal parents of their spirit children. [25]
Total depravity does not mean that humanity is as "thoroughly depraved" as it could become. [57] Commenting on Romans 2:14, John Calvin writes that all people have "some notions of justice and rectitude ... which are implanted by nature" all people. [58] Adam embodied the "whole of human nature" so when Adam sinned "all of human nature sinned."
Luther saw evil and original sin as an inheritance from Adam and Eve, passed on to all mankind from their conception and bound the will of man to serving sin, which God's just nature allowed as consequence for their distrust, though God planned mankind's redemption through Jesus Christ. [30]
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The "Evil Empire" speech was a speech delivered by US President Ronald Reagan to the National Association of Evangelicals on March 8, 1983, at the height of the Cold War and the Soviet–Afghan War. In that speech, Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as an "evil empire" and as "the focus of evil in the modern world".