Questions tagged [adam-and-eve]
Relating to the biblical characters Adam and/or Eve, appearing in Genesis 1 - 3, and representing the first two created human beings
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If Adam and Eve were perfect, why did they choose to sin? [closed]
Adam and Eve, when they were created in the Garden of Eden, were without sin. Because of that, they were perfect and flawless.
However, with that theology in mind, I'm running up against a wall: Why, ...
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What are the Biblical and theological problems with theistic evolution?
Theistic evolution holds that God used evolution to create mankind. It seems to follow then that this view must also hold the creation account in Genesis to be unhistorical. So, Adam and Eve may ...
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Did Adam and Eve's Progeny Commit Incest? [closed]
I have a multi-part question.
Did Adam and Eve's Progeny Commit Incest?
Genesis, Chapter 4 tells us about Cain and Abel.
Genesis, Chapter 5 tells us about Seth and "other sons and daughters".
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In Mormonism, how is the doctrine of Adam & Eve inability to have children prior to the Fall explained?
Inspired by this answer to a previous question, in which the answerer stated:
"For example, the Book of Mormon adds the belief that Adam and Eve could not have children before the Fall."
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How does the Catholic Church reconcile evolution with original sin?
According to Catholic doctrine:
all men inherit ancestral sin from Adam;
God descended upon Earth as the Son in order to free mankind from this sin, was crucified, died etc.
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From where did Cain get his wife? [closed]
I want to know that where did Cain Son of Adam and Eve get his wife? As there was nobody except Adam and Eve after he killed Abel.
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Is incest a sin? [closed]
If we all descended from one man and one woman then it's quite apparent that a third generation was not possible without the sexual union of close relatives.
Does the Bible (or other Christian source)...
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Adam and Eve Clothed in Light Before the Fall - Origin of this belief?
I've stumbled multiple times across the claim that Adam and Eve were clothed in light before the fall, and afterward they saw their nakedess not merely as a new form of enlightenment ("Suddenly I feel ...
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How did the world get populated according to Bible?
Adam and Eve had only three sons (Cain, Abel, and Seth), but no daughters: how did the world get populated?
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Why did God make garments of skin for Adam and Eve when they had already made clothing for themselves? [closed]
Immediately after Adam and Eve sinned, we are told that they made clothing for themselves.
Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together ...
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Did Adam and Eve end up getting saved? [closed]
After answering a recent question, it occurred to me to ask: Is there any biblical evidence regarding whether Adam and Eve have been redeemed in some fashion (and are thus going to Heaven/the New ...
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Has the Catholic Church outlined specific Biblical passages which should not be taken literally?
I feel humiliated when I ask people to explain Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, and the temptations of Christ in the desert and people say something like "I'm bored by questions about Adam and Eve and Noah's ...
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Did Adam and Eve ever practice animal sacrifice?
Genesis 8:20 (NIV) Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking
some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt
offerings on it.
Noah sacrificed burnt offerings. What about ...
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Did Genesis 2 occur all in one day? [closed]
A comment to this answer prompted this question. Was Adam created, naming the animals, and married in one day, or did these events take place in a larger time span?
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What is the significance of the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden? [closed]
If Adam and Eve were created perfect and without death (immortal), then what is the significance and purpose of the Tree of Life in the middle of the Garden of Eden?
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Why did God make it a sin to eat an apple?
Eating a fruit* is not even a real wicked deed like killing somebody or something. Why did this whole sin thing get started with something so innocuous that by today's standard it wouldn't even be ...
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What is the Catholic understanding of the first sin committed by Adam and Eve?
I always used to consider the first sin committed by Adam and Eve as eating the forbidden fruit from a particular tree. But recently my husband commented that Adam and Eve had sex with each other ...
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The fall was part of God's plan?
@JBH pointed out in the comments within *Could* Adam and Eve have children before the fall? that on the latter day saints website it states that
The fall is an integral part of Heavenly Father's ...
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According to Calvinists, how could Adam and Eve fall? How could Satan fall?
Under Calvinism, men under grace are guaranteed to choose God and be saved.
If God's holy influence is so convincing, that it is impossible for free thinking creations to choose against it, why did ...
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If Adam is an allegorical character, which Bible character in messianic genealogy is the first real human?
Whenever a question is posed about Adam, Eve, or other characters and events described in the book of Genesis, inevitably some answers state that these events are allegorical. So I would like an ...
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According to Catholics were Adam and Eve aware that they possessed immortal souls before Satan told Eve that she would not die?
Eve's comment to Satan in Eden seems to indicate that she and Adam believed that eating of the forbidden tree would result in absolute death.
They likely had witnessed the death of animals and would ...
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Why did God create Adam and Eve so that they would sin? [closed]
According to If Adam and Eve were perfect, why did they choose to sin? the serpent tricked Eve into eating the apple.
So either the serpent or humans sinned because of free will. But God is sovereign ...
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What is the reasoning behind the belief that Eve was NOT created on the sixth day?
I was talking with someone recently and the question was raised as to when Eve was created. I immediately replied that she was created on the sixth day, albeit later in the day than Adam. One person ...
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What is the basis for the belief that Eve was created on the sixth day, like Adam?
I have always thought that Eve was created on the sixth day, a bit later in the day than Adam. However, I recently discovered that some believe Eve was created on a later day.
What, then, is the ...
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According to LDS teaching could Adam and Eve have children before the fall?
2 Nephi 2:23 states
And they would have had no children; wherefore they would have
remained in a state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no
misery; doing no good, for they knew no sin.
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Is there any Denomination which think that the "serpent" at the beginning of his existence in Eden is not a bad being?
This question raised after my other question here
Genesis 3:15
I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your
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If God is all knowing then why didn't he prevent Adam and Eve from sinning? [duplicate]
God in the Christian faith is said to be the all knowing, everlasting God. But if God is all knowing then why didn't he prevent Adam and Eve from eating from the tree of Good and Evil, or perhaps just ...
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Where did the notion that Adam and Eve ate an APPLE come from?
Contrary to popular belief no mention of the fruit being an apple can be found in the Book of Genesis.
Jewish commentaries recorded in the Midrash Rabbah speculate that the tree might have been a ...
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Why did Adam claim he was "naked" before God when he and Eve had clothed themselves with fig leaves?
After sinning, Adam and Eve "sewed fig leaves together" and made clothing for themselves. However, when God comes into the garden and calls to Adam, Adam responds by claiming that he was afraid and ...
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What does "two becoming one flesh" refer to? [closed]
In the Bible, when it refers to “two becoming one flesh”, does it mean that
the physical act of sex creates a position where both bodies are connected?
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Do any of the Church Fathers draw a connection between Eve and the Holy Spirit?
In Wild at Heart, author John Eldredge takes some effort to describe the language used in Genesis 2:18 to refer to Eve. While some translations and commentors translate the hebrew "עֵ֖זֶר כְּנֶגְדּֽוֹ׃...
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What evidence does the LDS church forward for the claim that the Garden of Eden was in Missouri?
I just recently read that Joseph Smith taught that the Garden of Eden was actually in Jackson County Missouri and not in Mesopotamia. You can read it on lds.org here. (Search for "Garden of Eden")
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What does the Church have to say about the Pope's latest statement?
It is alleged that Pope Francis recently said that There Is No Hell Fire and Adam & Eve were Not Real. What does the Catholic Church have to say about it?
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Did God create other people besides Adam and Eve? [closed]
After Cain killed Abel, he was cast away and said "whoever finds me will kill me", there he took a wife.
I think this indicates there were other people on the face of the earth created by God, but ...
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Can the ancestral sin doctrine (and Paul's epistles) survive without a single breeding pair?
The necessity of salvation in Christian doctrine seems to be inextricably linked to the view that the entirety of human nature somehow springs from the gametes (and perhaps education) of a single ...
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How long was it before Adam and Eve sinned?
Do we have any idea how long Adam and Eve were together sinless in the Garden of Eden before they sinned?
They were created on the sixth day. They sinned before they had children.
Any other clues as ...
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If Adam and Eve didn't know good from evil, how can we say they sinned (according to Roman Catholicism)?
When God made Adam and Eve he said they could eat anything except from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. It sounds like that tree grants the knowledge, so before they ate they didn't know good ...
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Why couldn't Adam and Eve keep both commandments? [closed]
I hope this question is unique here, but I assure you I have searched and have not yet seen it. (This question is close, but not quite the same.)
Adam and Eve were given two commandments: 1) Multiply ...
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LDS teaching about man being able to become God, and the snake telling Eve that she can become "like God"
According to the LDS Doctrine of Exaltation that is asked about in other questions (such as this one), a human can eventually become a God.
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How could Adam and Eve have known not to eat from the Tree of Good and Evil? [closed]
How could Adam and Eve have known not to eat from the Tree of Good and Evil? As it was said that Adam and Eve did not know right from wrong.
Genesis 3:22:
And the LORD God said, "The man has now ...
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Seeking a richer Catholic understanding of passion vs intellect as it applies to our first parents
I was tempted to answer this question about freewill and Adam and Eve but I chose not to because all I've got it conjecture and I'm not even sure if it's not borderline heresy on the matter. What I'd ...
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According to Mormons, why did God make Eve's childbearing painful?
This question is about the following explanation from this page at lds.org:
“If Adam had not transgressed he would not have fallen, but he would
have remained in the garden of Eden. And all ...
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Adam and Eve versus ecology [closed]
Estimates vary widely of the minimum viable population for humans to stably reproduce without being subject to significant detrimental effects of inbreeding. Minimum estimates (e.g., for space ...
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