Clearly, Adam and Eve did not overcome temptation. They were meant to rule over creation but couldn’t rule over their appetites. Because of their disobedience, they were barred from eating of the tree. Revelation 22 reveals that the opportunity for God’s people to eat the tree of life ...
(Adam's transgression in Genesis 3 is disobedience, not sin, and he is expelled from Eden not in order to die, but so that he may not eat of the Tree of Life and become immortal). St Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD), working with a Latin mistranslation of the epistle, understood ...
God literallycreatesthe first woman from the rib of Adam. God meant for Eve to be a helper comparable to him and He then tells the both of them to be fruitful and multiply and to fill the earth and subdue it. Here is the verse that specifically tells us that Eve was also created jus...
Adam and Eve.(From the Sarajevo Haggadah of the fourteenth century.) In a dispute, therefore, as to which Biblical verse expresses the fundamental principle of the Law, Simon ben 'Azkai maintained against R. Akiba—who, following Hillel, had singled out the Golden Rule (Lev. xix. 18)—...
Yes, through Adam’s disobedience, sin was introduced into the world. But in Genesis, sin is not mentioned until Genesis 4:7, where it is connected with Cain’s desire to engage in rivalry and revenge against Abel. Adam and Eve had previously engaged in some of this rivalry when they st...
Initially, Adam called his wife simply “Woman” (Gen 2:23). But after their disobedience, he named her Eve, which means “life-giver” (Gen 3:20). She would be “the mother of all the living.” After she disobeyed God, Eve had every reason to believe she was anything but a life...
Verse (Click for Chapter) New International VersionTo Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’“Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the...
Both the first and the second Adam occupy the position of head with regard to humanity, but whereas the first through his disobedience vitiated, as it were, in himself the stirps of the entire race, and left to his posterity an inheritance of death, sin, and misery, the other through ...
Verse 19 reads: "Through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners... " (5:19a). Let's pause here a moment to consider the Doctrine of Original Sin. This doctrine was drawn from our passage and developed from St. Augustine's statement, "The deliberate sin of the fir...
In Genesis 2:7, for instance, Yahweh Elohim fashions the first human with dust from the earth and breathes into its nostrils to vivify it. Later in the narrative, following the disobedience of Adam and Eve, the text famously states that they are, in fact, dust and will return to dust ...