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17 Feb 2009

 

Jerry's question:
 
Are Adam and Eve in Heaven?
 
Don's answer:

The Bible does not tell us if Adam and Eve are in Heaven. Therefore, we cannot provide you with a sure and certain biblical answer to your question. Although many feel that Adam and Eve are in Hell for having brought down the whole human race with original sin, I believe that the Bible leans more toward God’s forgiveness of them than toward His condemnation of them. 

To start with, God clothed them both with animal skins after they sinned against him in the garden (Genesis 3:21). This required an animal sacrifice, which not only provided atonement for their sin but also pointed them to the coming “Lamb of God who [would] take away the sin of the world” (John 1:29).  

Second, they must have taught their sons about the need for blood atonement and the coming Savior whose blood would be shed for the sins of the world; otherwise, Abel would not have known to bring God a blood sacrifice, nor would God have been so harsh with Cain for failing to do so (Genesis 4:1-7).

Third, not only does God promise the eventual defeat of the serpent by a coming virgin born “seed” of the woman in the first Messianic promise of the Bible (Genesis 3:15), but He also provides Adam and Eve with another son to take the place of the murdered Abel so that the promised seed can come through this substitute son’s lineage. That Eve understood the significance of all of this is shown by the fact that she named her new son “Seth,” which means “substituted” (Genesis 4:25).

In Luke’s Gospel, Luke traces the genealogy of Jesus Christ all of the way back to Adam, who Luke refers to as “the son of God,” a reference Luke had already used earlier in his gospel for Christ (Luke 1: 35; 3:38). In 1 Corinthians 15:45, the Apostle Paul refers to Christ as “the last Adam.” It is therefore difficult for me to conceive of Adam—who Luke refers to as “the son of God” and to whom Paul is referring when calling our Lord “the last Adam”—as being in Hell.



 

 

 

 

Don Walton