The First Book of Adam and Eve

The First Book Of Adam And EveALSO CALLEDThe conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan.PRESENT day controversy that rages around the authenticity of the Scriptures and how human life began on this planet must pause to consider the Adam and Eve story. Where does it come from? What does it mean? The familiar version in Genesis is not the source of this fundamental legend it is not a spontaneous Heaven-born account that sprang into place in the Old Testament. It is simply a version unexcelled perhaps but a version of a myth or belief or account handed down by word of mouth from generation to generation of mankind-through the incoherent unrecorded ages of man it came--like an inextinguishable ray of light that ties the time when human life began with the time when the human mind could express itself and the human hand could write.This is the most ancient story in the world--it has survived because it embodies the basic fact of human life. A fact that has not changed one iota; amid all the superficial changes of civilization's vivid array this fact remains: the conflict of Good and Evil; the fight between Man and the Devil; the eternal struggle of human nature against sin That the Adam and Eve story pervaded the thoughts of ancient writers is seen in the large number of versions that exist or whose existence may be traced through the writings of Greeks Syrians Egyptians Abyssinians Hebrews and other ancient peoples. As a lawyer might say who examines so much apparently unrelated evidence--there must be something back of it.