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Quotes About Adam

Now, if Mary has an egg cell, then Jesus gets 50 percent of his genetic make up from his mother. And if his mother is a child of Adam, she, too,is fallen so Jesus is not perfect.
~ John Shelby Spong
One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted
~ Herman Bavinck
Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.
~ Franz Kafka
As far as pets go, a cat is a nice on to have.
~ Adam Rex
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
~ Adam Sedgwick
[The story of Adam and Eve] it's poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval History] are absolutely remarkable.
~ Frank Moore Cross
Let us be practical in our expectations of the Criminal Law.… [For] we have merely to imagine, by some trick of time travel, meeting our earliest hominid ancestor, Adam, a proto-man, short of stature, luxuriantly furred, newly bipedal, foraging about on the African savannah three million or so years ago. Now, let us agree that we may pronounce whatever laws we like for this clever little creature, still it would be unwise to pet him.
~ William Landay
There can be no Goodness and Happiness for any intelligent Creature, but in and by this two-fold Life; and therefore the Union of the Divine and human Life, or the Son of God incarnate in Man, to make Man again a Partaker of the Divine Nature, is the one only possible Salvation for all the Sons of fallen Adam, that is, of Adam dead to, or fallen from his first Union with the Divine Life.
~ William Law
Hence also the Fall of Adam was said to be a Death, that he died the Day of his Sin, though he lived so many hundred Years after it: it was because his Sin broke the Union of his two-fold Life and put an End to the heavenly Part of it, and left only one Life, the Life of this bestial, earthly World in him.
~ William Law
The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.
~ Bob Jones, Sr.
After creating the heaven, the earth, the ocean, and the entire animal kingdom, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing He said to them was "Don't."
~ Bill Cosby
Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.
~ John Jewel
We're children of God through our blood kinship with Christ. We're also sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, with a hereditary craving for forbidden fruit salad.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me - namely that Adam is our Father and God-.
~ Brigham Young
O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.
~ John Henry Newman
If God made Adam and Eve, they had children... wait a minute... that means someone banged their sister!
~ Carlos Mencia
You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The perfect world, by Adam trod, Was the first temple--built by God-- His fiat laid the corner stone, And heaved its pillars, one by one.
~ Nathaniel Parker Willis
In my mind God made Adam and Eve, he didn't make Adam and Steve.
~ Steve Coogan
The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures.
~ Martin Luther
The new earth will complete God's program. It will be what God intended for Adam and Eve in Eden.
~ Paul P. Enns
Because Adam, God's deputy on earth, transfered his legal dominion to Satan, God became obligated to recognize Satan's legal standing.
~ Ed Silvoso
When Adam found his rib was gone He cursed and sighed and cried and swore And looked with cold resentment on The creature God has used it for.
~ John Hollander