Adam
A mythical first man,from whom all humanity is descended,accord-ing to the Genesis account of creation. After he disobeyed God's commandnot to eat the fruit of a certain tree in the Garden of Eden,Adam,with his wife Eve,was expelled from the Garden (Gen.1-5). He is seen as the firstman,and symbolic source of all sinful humanity,and is used for contrastwith "the new man in Christ" in Rom. 6,where Paul identifies'Adam andChrist as heads of the "old" and "new" humanity ...... (共475字) [阅读本文]>>