Prophet Adam

Prophet Adam

The Creator had given Adam what he needed to live a comfortable and satisfying life. In fact, Adam’s prospect was to live forever in heaven and on earth, provided he proved obedient to his Maker. However, Adam and his wife, Eve, deliberately chose to reject their Creator’s guidance and spread sin and death to all mankind “original sin.”

The entire life of Adam and Eve, who (according to the Old Testament) completed hundreds of years on earth, was a life of repentance. In the words of the Apostle Paul, with their repentance the first-born succeeded in obtaining God’s mercy.

It is even said that God arranged things so that the Cross of the Lord would be placed in the place where Adam was buried.

Thus, in the place of the first Adam, the "new Adam" Jesus Christ came as the Redeemer, to save the entire human race.

In Christianity, his memory is celebrated, along with that of Eve, every year on Forefathers' Sunday (a movable feast).