tag name: Adam and Eve type: People; Religions, Middle Eastern web link: bahai-library.com/tags/Adam_and_Eve related tags: Creation; Genesis (Bible) referring tags: Adamic Cycle; Garden of Eden; Man versus human; Serpent; Seth Inventory subject: Adam; Adam and Eve notes: "... The account of Adam and Eve, their eating from the tree, and their expulsion from Paradise are ... symbols and divine mysteries... These verses of the Torah have therefore numerous meanings. We will explain one of them and will say that by “Adam” is meant the spirit of Adam and by “Eve” is meant His self. For in certain passages of the Sacred Scriptures where women are mentioned, the intended meaning is the human self. By “the tree of good and evil” is meant the material world, for the heavenly realm of the spirit is pure goodness and absolute radiance, but in the material world light and darkness, good and evil, and all manner of opposing realities are to be found. The meaning of the serpent is attachment to the material world. This attachment of the spirit to the material world led to the banishment of the self and spirit of Adam from the realm of freedom to the world of bondage and caused Him to turn from the kingdom of Divine Unity to the world of human existence... This is but one of the meanings of the biblical account of Adam. Reflect, that you may discover the others."
– Abdu'l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, chapter 30."... As for the story of Adam, the Father of Mankind, which is recorded in the Sacred Scriptures, this requireth explanation and interpretation. By “genesis” is intended a spiritual creation and heavenly existence; for otherwise the most cursory reflection would be sufficient to convince even a child that this boundless universe, the world of being—this infinite cosmos, this prodigious system, this mighty and primordial workshop—is far more than six thousand years old, as hath in fact been realized in this illumined age by scientists and men of learning, on the basis of decisive proofs and evidences founded on both reason and discovery. In recent times remains have come to light which have been definitely and conclusively established to be more than ten thousand years old. Through the science of geology this hidden secret hath been grasped—that the age of the world surpasseth man’s conception..."
– 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks (AB00262)
The following is adapted from the Wikipedia article Adam:
In Genesis, the name "Adam" is given to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, the Hebrew word adam is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as "humankind". [reference: Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible, pp.18-19.]bahaidata.org: Q1621 · Links to Bahá'í wikis (bahai9, bahaipedia, etc.) references: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve; bahaiquotes.com/subject/adam; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Adam; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Adam Eve
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