Adam, the first man created by God, holds a foundational place in biblical history. According to the Genesis account, Adam was formed from the dust of the ground, and God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, making him a living being (Genesis 2:7). Placed in the Garden of Eden, Adam was given the responsibility to tend and keep it, and he was granted dominion over all living creatures (Genesis 1:28, 2:15).

The subsequent history of Adam is marked by the pivotal event of the Fall. God commanded Adam not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, warning that death would be the consequence of disobedience (Genesis 2:16-17). However, Adam and his wife, Eve, were deceived by the serpent and ate the forbidden fruit. This act of disobedience led to the entrance of sin and death into the world, altering the course of human history (Genesis 3:6).

As a result of their transgression, Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden. God pronounced curses upon them and the serpent, and the ground itself was cursed because of Adam's sin. Adam was condemned to toil and labor for his sustenance, and ultimately, he would return to the dust from which he was formed (Genesis 3:17-19).

Despite the fall, Adam's life continued outside the garden. He became the father of several children, including Cain, Abel, and Seth. The narrative of Cain and Abel, found in Genesis 4, highlights the continuation of sin in Adam's lineage, as Cain murdered his brother Abel out of jealousy (Genesis 4:8). Seth, born after Abel's death, is noted as a righteous line through which the promise of redemption would continue (Genesis 4:25).

Adam lived for 930 years, and his genealogy is recorded in Genesis 5, which traces the line from Adam to Noah. This genealogy underscores the fulfillment of God's command to "be fruitful and multiply" (Genesis 1:28) and sets the stage for the unfolding of God's redemptive plan through subsequent generations.

The New Testament references Adam in several key theological contexts. The Apostle Paul contrasts Adam with Jesus Christ, describing Adam as the one through whom sin entered the world, while Christ is the one through whom grace and righteousness are made available (Romans 5:12-19). Paul also refers to Adam as a "type" of Christ, emphasizing the parallel between Adam's act leading to death and Christ's act leading to life (1 Corinthians 15:22).

Adam's legacy, therefore, is twofold: he is both the progenitor of the human race and the representative head whose disobedience brought sin into the world. Yet, through the promise of redemption, the narrative of Adam points forward to the hope of restoration through Jesus Christ, the "last Adam" (1 Corinthians 15:45).Genesis 3:20-24
And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
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Genesis 4:1,2,25
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
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Genesis 5:1-5
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
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Authenticity and Credibility of the Pentateuch.
... For Adam was first formed, then Eve ... And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being
deceived was ... settled at all"they cannot with any reasonable man affect the ...
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The Creaturely Man.
... Scripture expresses this unity between Adam's natural life ... First, that each divine
Person had a distinct ... Secondly, that man was not created empty, afterward to ...
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Nature of Church History.
... view, which overlooks the free agency of man and his ... It is no after-thought of God,
no subsequent emendation of the ... The first Adam is a type of the second Adam ...
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Organic and Individual.
... Second, the reversing of the first order, the changing of ... in power and degree to
that of Adam, but transferred ... be perfect, so far as concerns man's state and ...
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General Remarks on the History of Missions in this Age.
... dangers." With this we may compare what Adam of Bremen ... was labouring in 1124, for
the first time, towards ... succeeded in converting and baptizing a man of high ...
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The Protevangelium.
... of the serpent, as the result of which the subsequent words cannot ... of the old serpent
which has slain Adam and all ... refer to the fall of the first man, is also ...
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The Apocalypse of Baruch.
... this is the sin which Adam, the first man, sinned. ... the angels who "kept not their
first estate," our ... "Adam," he says, "imperilled not only his own soul but the ...
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How it is that Cain's Line Terminates in the Eighth Generation ...
... divers heresies; for they live according to man, not according ... and who is the seventh
from Adam through Cain ... But it was not necessary that the first-born should ...
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"In the Volume of the Book it is Written of Me" (Heb. . .
... Third, he was the seventh from fallen Adam, as though ... etc., manifestly pointed forward
to the Man of Sin ... Notice, first, that three times over he is denominated ...
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The Five Books Against Marcion
... Wisdom, and Greatness, and Might God's Hiding of Himself, and Subsequent Revelation ...
Christ as the Second Adam Connected with the Creator of the First Man. ...
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