The simple answer is that we are not, but as usual there is more to it than that! In the most straight forward sense we are punished for our own sin: “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” Romans 3 v 23 So we are each responsible for our own [...]
Answers about Adam
The Bible doesn’t tell us whether Adam and Eve will be raised to eternal life. It’s possible; God tells us that if you repent, you’ll be forgiven. For instance: Again, when a wicked person turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he shall save his life. Because [...]
The difficulty here is that the date of Adam can be calculated from genealogical information in the Bible to be approximately 6000 years ago, or possibly a little longer. So human remains that are much older than that cannot have been descendants of Adam. There are three major views that attempt to account for this [...]
The simple answer is that we don’t know, because the Bible does not tell us. However, there are hints which may suggest that it did. After Adam and Eve sinned by eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, God spoke to Adam, Eve and the serpent. The key verse [...]
Adam was the first man and Eve was the first woman. Genesis 1 gives the summary of creation, while Genesis 2 gives some extra detail, including the information that God had created a male first (Adam) and only created a woman (Eve) after the man had realised that none of the animals was a fit [...]
The description of the creation of human beings in Genesis implies that Adam and Eve were the only ones that God created. Adam couldn’t find a suitable helper (Genesis 2:20 — suggesting there were no other human beings around) and Eve is described as “the mother of all the living” (Genesis 3:20). Similarly, in the [...]
Genesis 2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat [1] of it you shall surely die.” Footnotes [1] 2:17 Or when you eat (ESV) Why does it say “in the day” and yet Adam and Eve didn’t die that day? [...]
When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. 4 The days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years; and he had other sons and daughters. 5 Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died. So [...]
In Genesis chapter 2 we are told that God created one man (Adam) and one woman (Eve). Adam is reported as having sons and daughters in Genesis 5:4. Cain must have married one of these or another close relative descended from Adam. By the time Adam died, he not only had children and grand-children, but [...]
It is often claimed that Genesis 1 and 2 represent two contradictory accounts of creation. For example, Genesis 1:24-26 has the animals created before humans. Yet Genesis 2:18-19 appears to have animals created after humans in most versions. For example, the NKJV has And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should [...]
