आदम और हव्वा

Adam (Hebrew: אָדָם, Adam, "man") and Eve (Hebrew: חַוָּה, Ḥavva, "living one") were the first man and woman created by God , according to the Bible and the Qur'an . The story of Adam and Eve is central to the widely held belief that God created human beings to live in a Paradise on earth, although they fell away from that state and formed the present world full of suffering and injustice. It provides the basis for the belief that humanity is in essence a single family, with everyone descended from a single pair of original ancestors. It also provides much of the scriptural basis for the doctrine of Original Sin , an important belief in Christianity , although not shared by Judaism or Islam . The story of Adam and Eve is told in the early chapters of the Book of Genesis , which describes the creation of man and woman, the temptation and the Fall , the expulsion from Eden , the story of the first murder, and the subsequent peopling of the world outside the Garden of Eden. It is the source of many of the most important symbols in Western culture, including the Garden of Eden, the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the forbidden fruit, and the serpent as Satan . Adam and Eve's story underwent extensive elaboration in later Abrahamic traditions, and has been extensively analyzed by modern biblical scholars. Michelangelo shows God giving life to Adam, with Eve cradled under His arm, from the Sistine Chapel in Rome. In the Book of Genesis , the creation of man and woman takes place after six "days" of creation in which God first brings into being the heavens and the earth, light, day and night, sky and sea, dry land, trees and other vegetation, the sun and the moon, sea creatures and birds, and finally livestock and wild animals. Then later on the sixth day, God decides to "make man in our image, in our likeness." The manifestation of God's image in "man" is both masculine and feminine: God proceeds to bless the couple to, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." (Gen. 1:28) God gives them, "every tree that has fruit with seed in it" to eat. At the conclusion of this sixth day of creation God declares His work to be "very good" and proceeds to rest on the seventh day. But a single man [Adam] was created for the sake of peace among mankind, that none should say to his fellow, “My father was greater than your father” (Mishnah, Sanhedrin 4.5). O mankind! We created you from a single pair of a male and a female and made you into nations and tribes, that you might know each other [not that you might despise each other]. Verily the most honored among you in the sight of God is he who is the most righteous (Qur’an 49.13). Genesis 2 contains a second account of the creation of human beings. However, unlike the first account which is chronological, the second one focuses on the theological significance of Adam and Eve. God forms Adam out of clay and breathes into him the "breath of life" (Gen. 2:7). Receiving this divine breath makes the man unique among all God's creations, which are made from the earth only. This verse provides a theological basis for making a qualitative distinction between human beings and animals, as only humans possess an eternal spirit. For some Protestants, the verse is also relevant to the abortion debate by providing a rationale for seeing the fullness of human life as beginning at birth when the baby takes its first breath, rather than, as Catholics believe, at conception when the "clay" has not yet been infused with spirit. God places Adam in the Garden of Eden . The Garden represents the world of God's love and care, where there is harmony among all creatures. It is described in the prophets as a place where "the wolf shall dwell with the lamb" (Isa. 11:6), and where there are riches and jewels in abundance (Ezek. 28:13). Yet what good is ab