People - Adam
The beginning of Genesis tells of the creation.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.(Genesis 1 v27)
Adam was the first man recorded in the Bible. Eve was Adam's wife.
God gave Adam instructions in the garden of Eden (Genesis 2 v 15 - 17)
15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;
17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."
Eve and her husband were deceived by the serpent the devil and disobeyed God. This is often described as original sin or the fall of man(kind). (Genesis 3 v1 - 24)
God promised that despite the situation with the devil's rebellion and the fall of Adam and Eve that there would be a restoration of God's relationship with mankind and final defeat for the devil (Genesis 3 v14 - 15). God even promised that Adam's offspring the second Adam would complete the victory.
The sons of Adam and Eve were:
Cain
Abel
Seth
The death of Adam. (Genesis 5 v5)
Who is the second Adam?.
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