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He tempted Eve, then Adam, to eat the forbidden fruit with a false promise of getting even more than God had already given them. Adam and Eve gave in. They disobeyed God’s only instruction.

As they struggle to survive in the wilderness, Adam and Eve accidentally invent weapons ... or among the four clear rivers that now water Hungary, or even in the blessed land” of Lisbon.

I think that even the greatest saints or prophets ... questions about whether Adam and Eve came from previously existing creatures or were made afresh, questions about the plasticity of species ...