Category: Nabi Adam dalam Agama Islam

1. According to the Holy Bible Adam is a significant character in the story of creation. He is the first human created by God. He has no father neither a mother. He is proclaimed as the son of God. A perfect creation with a free will.

2. Adam is married to Eve who also has no father and mother. Eve was created by God from the ribs of Adam. In the story of creation Eve was the first human clone.

3. God created mankind in the image of God to rule over the Earth. Somewhere on Earth is the Garden of Eden where God placed Adam and Eve as husband and wife naked without any clothing. They were also without any knowledge of good and evil because the first commandment of God to mankind was a diet law that forbids them from eating the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The fruit is harmful and poisonous as it will result in instant death if eaten.

4. Adam and Eve who were without any knowledge of good and evil did not eat the deadly fruit and willingly obeyed God until they were tempted and tricked by a smart and evil serpent. They both fell into sin when they disobeyed God.

5. Adam and Eve as well as the serpent were cursed by God who was so infuriated when He finally realized that both Adam and Eve had the knowledge of good and evil just like God. Eve was cursed with the pain of child bearing. Adam was cursed with working for a living. The serpent was cursed as a slithering dust eating reptile. Later as sinners, Adam and Eve were consequently clothed by God before God finally banished the couple because God does not want them to have eternal life by eating the fruit from the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden.

6. In Christianity the wrath of God with Adam was so bitter and the sin of Adam was so severe to the extent that even the descendant of Adam inherited the sin of Adam. In fact sin is so catastrophic that it is the cause of death amongst mankind and it also sever all relationship with God who is holy and pure. That relationship can only be restored by Jesus Christ who glorified God by giving his life for the redemption of our sins. Yet not a word from Jesus nor from any other prophet concerning Adam and the gravity of his fall from grace. As if the story of Adam is a non-issue. It’s like Adam never sin or is sinless.

7. Could it be that whatever transpired between Adam and God was viewed as a purely personal matter between Adam and God? That Adam was responsible only to himself alone and face the consequences alone without implicating others? That messengers are chosen among mankind by God and send as prophets to keep guiding mankind on the right path instead of a Christo-centric purpose for the glorification of God?

8. Meanwhile, what is the Islamic version and approach on the story of Adam in the light of the purpose of creation by God Almighty?

1. Before the creation of the world God had specifically chosen Jesus Christ as the savior and the redeemer of sins. It is a crucial aspect in the grand plan of God to reveal His glory. It was the very purpose of His creation. It is also the reason why Jesus Christ is so central in the greatest story ever told.

2. What is rather puzzling with the story is the time taken by Jesus Christ to fulfill his pre-ordained divine will. Somehow Jesus Christ took his own time and only came to save the descendants of Adam long after Adam had sin and infected every new born child of man with his sin. As if to Jesus Christ the glorification of God can wait and the plague of sin among mankind was not a grave matter.

3. What then is the fate of the untold numbers of the descendants of Adam who died before the crucifixion of Christ ? What is the status of their salvation? Do they go to heaven or to hell in the hereafter?

4. If by the grace of God the dead before Christ end up in heaven then why the need for any redemption of sin by Christ at all? Why even bother with sin and the consequences of sin in the first place when in the end everybody can all go to heaven? What’s Christianity for? Where then is the justice and wisdom of God if sinners are not disciplined and sentenced? What is there left to believe in? How then is God glorified?

5. If the dead before Christ end up in hell then is God just, merciful, compassionate and wise since their salvation rest solely on the redemption of sins by Christ? And they even include all the dead prophets of God too! How then is God glorified?

6. Come to think of it what about the salvation of the followers of Jesus Christ who died before his crucifixion? Where do they end up in the hereafter? Then again why Christ did not immediately redeem our sins at the earliest opportunity?

7. Stranger still Jesus Christ himself as well as all the prophets of God never utter a word about Adam nor about the tragic consequences of the sin of Adam neither about any redemption of sin by a pre-chosen lamb of God. A disquieting silence of the lamb. Why?

(This is the fifth article written on Christian Theology by a Muslim from the perspective of Christianity. This segment address the issue highlighted in the fourth article)

1. What is the fate of Christianity had God planned otherwise?

2. In other words, would Christianity exists or take a different form if the glory of God is revealed for example by His acts of guiding man towards the right relationship with Him rather than through saving man by offering His own incarnation in the form of Jesus Christ to Himself as a sin sacrifice?

3. Meaning what if God the forgiver of sin plan His glorification just by forgiving the repented without having to shed His own life and blood as His chosen sacrificial Lamb of God? What is the wisdom in the glory of killing the forgiver for forgiveness? Most importantly how did the sin of killing God The Son by man redeem the sin of man?

4. But who are we to question the wisdom of God? Irrespective of the question being hypothetical or not it’s a done deal. Not subject to contest. After all God is a perfect being. So His plan must be perfect. Why not just stick to His pre-ordained plan?

5. The pre-ordained God saving man plan is a savior worship plan. That is why Jesus Christ who redeemed the sin of man is exalted and worshipped to the extent that the faith is even named after him. Had The Holy Spirit redeemed the sin of man then the faith would not have been named Christianity. And The Holy Spirit would then be exalted and worshipped instead of Jesus Christ.

6. Then again God in His grace and justice planned it like that all by Himself. But what took The Son of God so long to come and save the sons of man?

1. The plan of God is about God. Everything that God does is for His own glory. And the ultimate purpose of the plan of God is for the glory of God.

This article is an essay on why Believing in ‘The Good News‘ is the key to paradise from the Christian perspective by a Muslim.