ADAM refers to the name of a man and a city in the Old Testament. The first man created by God on the sixth day of creation and placed in the Garden of Eden. He and his wife EVE, created by God from one of Adam's ribs and became the ancestors of all people now living on the earth. Adam was unique and distinct from the animals in several ways. His creation is described separately from that of the animals and the rest of God's creative acts. God breathed into Adam's body of 'dust', the divine breath of life; and man became a living being. God also made man in his own image and likeness. "Let Us make man in Our image according to Our likeness. - Gen. 1:3-27; 2:7,19-23; 3:8-9,17,20-21; 4:1,25; 5:1-5 -

God placed Adam in the Garden of Eden where he was to work the ground and take care of the animals. God made Eve as a helper comparable to Adam, creating her out of one of Adam's ribs so they were "one flesh". God told the human pair, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth". As a consequence they had a number of children; Cain, Abel, Seth and a number of others sons and daughters. Created in innocence they did not know sin. - Gen. 1:26-28; 2:5,15,19-25; 4:1-2; 5:3-4 -

Genesis chapter 3 tells how Adam failed to keep God's command.(Disobedience)
The New Testament emphasizes the oneness of Adam and Eve - Matt. 19:3-9 - showing that Adam represented man in bringing the human race into sin and death. In contrast, Christ, the new Adam represented His redeemed people in bringing justification and eternal life to them.

But Christ has in fact been raised from the dead the first-fruits of all who have fallen asleep. Death came through one man and in the same way the resurrection of the dead has come through one man. Just as all men die in Adam so all men will be brought to life in Christ; but all of them in their proper order; Christ as the first-fruit and then, after the coming of Christ those who belong to him. After that will come the end when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, having done away with every sovereignty, authority and power. For he must be king until he has put all his enemies under his feet and the last of the enemies to be destroyed is death, for everything is to be put under his feet. - 1Cor. 15:20-26 - Rom. 5: 12-21 -

This also mean that God created man and woman with spiritual, rational, emotional and moral qualities.

You must give up your old way of life; you must put aside your old self which gets corrupted by following illusory desires. Your mind must be renewed by a spiritual revolution so that you can put on the new self that has been created in God's way, in the goodness and holiness of the truth. - Eph. 4:22-24, 25-32 -

That is why you must kill everything in you that belongs only to earthly life; fornication, impurity, guilty passion, evil desires and especially greed which is the same thing as worshipping a false god; all this is the sort of behaviour that makes God angry. And it is the way in which you used to live when you were surrounded by people doing the same thing.............There is only Christ: He is everything and He is in everything. - Col. 3:5-11 -
                                                                     
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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -