In another apocryphal text of the Hebrew religion, the redemptive blood of Jesus Christ flowed onto the grave of Adam who was buried under Calvary in the Holy Sepulcher. Likewise, another Jewish tradition holds that Adam was the prototype of mankind, meaning that the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and their eventual downfall is an allegory for the human condition and man's weakness for sin. In addition, some scholars argue that Adam was the father of all the races, formed from different colored clays found in the natural world. Of course, these descriptions are not in line with what the Scriptures say about Adam and Eve and their departure from the Garden of Eden in shame.
After Cain murdered his brother Abel and was cast out into the wilderness by God, Adam fathered another son named Seth ("And Adam knew his wife again, and she bared a son and called his name Seth," Genesis 4:25). As the years passed, Seth became a father ("And to Seth, to...
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