Adam and Eve

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Names of all things taught to Adam

He (Allah) taught Adam the names of all things and then set them  before the angels, saying:  “Tell Me the names of these, if what you say be true.”

 

They replied:  “Glory be to You, we have no knowledge except that which You have given us.  You alone are all knowing and wise.”

 

Then He said:  “Adam, tell them their names.”  And when Adam had named them, He said:  “Did I not tell you that I know the secrets of the heavens and the earth, and know all that you reveal and all that you conceal?”

Al-Baqarah    The Cow 2:31-34

All living creatures Named by Adam

Genesis 2:18-20    NKJV

18 And the LORD God said, "It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him."

 

19 Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.

 

Angels prostrate before Adam

We (God) commanded the angels to prostrate themselves before Adam, and the angels all prostrated themselves except Satan, who in his pride refused and became an unbeliever.

Al-Baqarah    The Cow 2:34

Al-A’raf    The Heights 7:11

 

Angels prostrate before Adam

When We said to the angels:  “Prostrate yourselves before Adam,”  all prostrated themselves except Satan, who was a jinnee disobedient to his Lord.  Would you then serve him and his offspring as your masters rather than Myself, despite their enmity towards you?  A sad substitute the wrongdoers have chosen!

Al-Kahf     The Cave 18:50

Angels commanded to worship Jesus

Speaking of Jesus, God said, “Let all the angels of God worship Him.”

Hebrews 1:6

Forbidden fruit

We (God) said: Adam, dwell with your wife in Paradise and eat of its fruits to your hearts' content wherever you will, but never approach this tree or you shall both become transgressors.

Al-Baqarah    The Cow 2:35

Forbidden fruit

Yehowah Elohiym took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend and keep it.  And Yehowah Elohiym commanded the man saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat, but of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."

Genesis 2:15-17

First Sin and its punishment

Satan lured them thence and brought about their banishment.  Get you down, We said, and be enemies to each other.   The earth will for a while provide your dwelling and your sustenance.

 

Then Adam received commandments from his Lord, and his Lord relented towards him.  He is the Relenting One, the Merciful

Al-Baqarah    The Cow 2:36-37

First Sin and its punishment

Satan deceived Eve and Eve ate and gave the fruit to Adam who also ate. 

 

To the woman He said:

"I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception;

In pain you shall bring forth children;

Your desire shall be for your husband,

And he shall rule over you." 

Genesis 3:16    NKJV

 

17 Then to Adam He said, "Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it':

"Cursed is the ground for your sake;

In toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life.

18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you,

And you shall eat the herb of the field.

19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken;

For dust you are, And to dust you shall return."

Genesis 3:17-19    NKJV

 

22 Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever"-- 23 therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. 24 So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

Genesis 3:22-24    NKJV

Exalted men

Allah exalted Adam, and Noah, Abraham's descendants and the descendants of Imran (father of Mary) above the nations.  They were the offspring of one another.  Allah hears all and knows all.  

Al-I-Imran    The Imrans 3:33

Exalted Israel

God promised to exalt Israel above all nations if they obeyed the commandments of God.

Deuteronomy 26:17-19, Deuteronomy 28:1

Jesus is like Adam

This revelation, and this wise admonition, We recite to you.  Jesus is like Adam in the sight of Allah.  He created him from the dust and then said to him "Be," and he was.

 

This is the truth from your Lord: therefore do not doubt it.  To those that dispute with you concerning him after the knowledge you have received, say:  "Come, let us gather our sons and your sons, our wives and your wives, our people and your people.  We will then pray and call down the curse of Allah on every liar."

 

This is the whole truth.  There is no god but Allah.  Surely it is Allah who is the Mighty, the Wise One.

Al-I-Imran    The Imrans  3:58-62

Jesus is God in the Flesh

And the angel answered and said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. 

Luke 1:35  NKJV

 

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.  John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, "This was He of whom I said, 'He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.' "  And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace.  For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.  No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.  

John 1:14-18  NKJV

Satan's fall

We created you and gave you form.. Then we said to the angels:  "Prostrate yourselves before Adam."  They all prostrated themselves except Satan, who refused to prostrate himself.

 

"Why did you not prostrate yourself when I commanded you?" He asked.

 

"I am nobler than he," he replied.  "You created me from fire, but You created him from clay."

 

He said: "Get you down hence!  This is no place for your contemptuous pride.  Away with you!  Hence forth you shall be humble."

 

He replied:  "Reprieve me till the Day of Resurrection."

"You are reprieved," said He.

 

"Because You have led me into sin,"  he declared, "I will waylay Your servants as they walk on Your straight path, then spring upon them from the front, from the rear, from their right and from their left.  Then You will find the greater part of them ungrateful. 

 

"Be gone!" He said, "A despicable outcast you shall henceforth be.  As for those that follow you, I shall fill Hell with you all.

Al-A’raf      The Heights    7:10-18

Lucifer’s (Satan) fall

"How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!

For you have said in your heart:

^     I will ascend into heaven,

^     I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;

^     I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north;

^     I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,

^     I will be like the Most High.

 

Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the lowest depths of the Pit.   

Isaiah 14:12-15    NKJV

 

Fall of Lucifer (Satan)

12 "How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!

13 For you have said in your heart: 'I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north; 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.'

 

15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the lowest depths of the Pit.   

Isaiah 14:12-15    NKJV

 

Adam and Eve

To Adam He said:  "Dwell with your wife in Paradise, and eat of any fruit you please; but never approach this tree or you shall both become transgressors."

 

But Satan tempted them, so that he might reveal to them their shameful parts, which they had never seen before.  He said: "Your Lord has forbidden you to approach this tree only to prevent you from becoming angels or immortals."  Then he swore to them that he would give them friendly counsel. 

 

Thus did he cunningly seduce them.  And when they had eaten of the tree, their shame became visible to them, and they both covered themselves with the leaves of the garden.

 

Their Lord called out to them, saying:  "Did I not forbid you to approach that tree, and did I not say to you that Satan was your inveterate foe?"

 

They replied:  "Lord, we have wronged our souls.  Pardon us and have mercy on us, or we shall surely be among the lost."

 

He said:  "Get you down hence, and may your descendants be enemies to each other.  The earth will for a while provide your dwelling and your comforts.  There you shall live and there you shall die, and thence you shall be raised to life."

 

Children of Adam!  We have given you clothes to cover your shameful parts, and garments pleasing to the eye;  but the finest of all these is the robe of piety.

 

That is one of Allah's revelations.  Perchance they will take heed. 

 

Children of Adam!  Let not Satan tempt you, as he seduced your parents out of Paradise.  He stripped them of their garments to reveal to them their shameful parts.  He and his minions see you whence you cannot see them.  We have made the devils guardians over the unbelievers.

Al-A’raf      The Heights    7:19-27

 

Adam & Eve

How can you deny Allah?  Did He not give you life when you were dead, and will He not cause you to die and then restore you to life?  Will you not return to Him at last?  He created for you all that the earth contains;  then, ascending to the sky, He fashioned it into seven heavens.  He has knowledge of all things.

 

When your Lord said to the angels:  “I am placing on the earth one that shall rule as My deputy,”  they replied:  “Will You put there one that will do evil and shed blood when we have for so long sung Your praises and sanctified Your name?” 

 

He said:  “I know what you know not.”

 

He taught Adam the names of all things and then set them before the angels, saying:  “Tell Me the names of these, if what you say be true.”

 

They replied, “Glory be to You, we have no knowledge except that which You have given us.  You alone are all knowing and wise.”

 

Then He said:  “Adam, tell them their names.”  And when Adam had named them, He said:  “Did I not tell you that I know the secrets of the heavens and the earth, and know all that you reveal and all that you conceal?”

 

And when We said to the angels:  “Prostrate yourselves before Adam,”  they all prostrated themselves except Satan, who in his pride refused and became an unbeliever.

 

We (God) said: Adam, dwell with your wife in Paradise and eat of its fruits to your hearts' content wherever you will, but never approach this tree or you shall both become transgressors.

Al-Baqarah    The Cow 2:29-35

 

Adam & Eve sinned

Satan lured them thence and brought about their banishment.  Get you down, We said, and be enemies to each other.   The earth will for a while provide your dwelling and your sustenance.

 

Then Adam received commandments from his Lord, and his Lord relented towards him.  He is the Relenting One, the Merciful

 

We said:  “Get you down hence, all, when My guidance is revealed to you; those who follow My guidance shall have nothing to fear or regret;  but those that deny and reject Our revelations shall be the inmates of the Fire, and there they shall abide forever.

Al-Baqarah    The Cow 2:36-39

 

Adam and Eve tempted

To Adam He said:  "Dwell with your wife in Paradise, and eat of any fruit you please; but never approach this tree or you shall both become transgressors."

 

But Satan tempted them, so that he might reveal to them their shameful parts, which they had never seen before.  He said: "Your Lord has forbidden you to approach this tree only to prevent you from becoming angels or immortals."  Then he swore to them that he would give them friendly counsel. 

 

Thus did he cunningly seduce them.  And when they had eaten of the tree, their shame became visible to them, and they both covered themselves with the leaves of the garden.

 

Their Lord called out to them, saying:  "Did I not forbid you to approach that tree, and did I not say to you that Satan was your inveterate foe?"

 

They replied:  "Lord, we have wronged our souls.  Pardon us and have mercy on us, or we shall surely be among the lost."

 

He said:  "Get you down hence, and may your descendants be enemies to each other.  The earth will for a while provide your dwelling and your comforts.  There you shall live and there you shall die, and thence you shall be raised to life."

 

Children of Adam!  We have given you clothes to cover your shameful parts, and garments pleasing to the eye;  but the finest of all these is the robe of piety.

 

That is one of Allah's revelations.  Perchance they will take heed. 

 

Children of Adam!  Let not Satan tempt you, as he seduced your parents out of Paradise.  He stripped them of their garments to reveal to them their shameful parts.  He and his minions see you whence you cannot see them.  We have made the devils guardians over the unbelievers.

Al-A’raf      The Heights    7:19-27

 

Adam and Satan – first temptation

We made a covenant with Adam, but he forgot, and We found him lacking in steadfastness.  And when We said to the angels:  “Prostrate yourselves before Adam,” they all prostrated themselves except Satan, who refused.

 

“Adam,” We said, “Satan is an enemy to you and to your wife.  Let him not turn you both out of Paradise and plunge you into affliction.  Here you shall not hunger or be naked;  you shall not thirst, or feel the scorching heat.”

 

But Satan whispered to him, saying:  “Adam, shall I show you the Tree of Immortality and an imperishable kingdom?”

 

They both ate of its fruit, so that they saw their nakedness and began to cover themselves with the leaves of the Garden.  Thus did Adam disobey his Lord and stray from the right path.

 

Then his Lord had mercy on him;  He relented towards him and rightly guided him. 

 

“Get you down, both,”  He said, “and may your offspring be enemies to each other.  When My guidance is revealed to you, he that follows it shall neither err nor grieve; but he that rejects My warning shall live in woe and come before Us blind on the Day of Resurrection.  “Lord,” he will say, “why have You brought me blind before You when I had once been clear sighted?”

 

He will answer:  “Just as Our revelations were declared to you and you forgot them, so on this day you are yourself forgotten.”

 

Thus shall We reward the transgressor who denies the revelations of his Lord.  Gut the scourge of the life to come is more terrible and more lasting.

Ta’ Ha’   20:115-127

 

Adam and Eve

26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

 

29 And God said, "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. 30 Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food"; and it was so. 31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.   

Genesis 1:26-31    NKJV

 

Genesis 2:7-14

7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

 

8 The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. 9 And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

 

10 Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads. 11 The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there. 13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush. 14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.     NKJV

 

15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."

Genesis 2:15-17    NKJV

 

18 And the LORD God said, "It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him." 19 Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him. 21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. 23 And Adam said:

 

"This is now bone of my bones

And flesh of my flesh;

She shall be called Woman,

Because she was taken out of Man."

 

24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

Genesis 2:18-25    NKJV

 

3:1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?" 2 And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.' " 4 Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings. 8 And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

 

9 Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, "Where are you?" 10 So he said, "I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself." 11 And He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?" 12 Then the man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate." 13 And the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate." 14 So the LORD God said to the serpent:

"Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life. 15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel."

16 To the woman He said:

"I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; In pain you shall bring forth children; Your desire shall be for your husband, And he shall rule over you."

17 Then to Adam He said, "Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it':

"Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life. 18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field. 19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return."

20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. 21 Also for Adam and his wife the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.

Genesis 3:1-21    NKJV

 

Genesis 3:22-24

22 Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever"-- 23 therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. 24 So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

NKJV

 

Romans 5:13-15

13(For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. 15 But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man's offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.

NKJV

 

1 Corinthians 15:20-23

20 But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. 23 But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ's at His coming.

NKJV

 

1 Timothy 2:13-14

13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.

NKJV