Christianity
Genesis
“Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”
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On The Fall of Man
The first humans disobey a divine command in a garden setting. This act introduces sin and separation from the divine presence. 1 Enoch's Book of the Watchers expands the account into a cosmic drama of fallen angels teaching the forbidden arts.
What every account tells.
- iGarden of Eden
- iiDisobedience regarding a tree
How each tradition tells it.
Islam
Islam teaches that Adam and Eve repented immediately and were forgiven without original sin.
Christianity
1 Enoch (received by Ethiopian and early Christian traditions; cited in Jude 14) supplements the Eden account with the descent of the Watchers: heavenly sons who take human wives, teach metallurgy, sorcery, and cosmetics, and beget the Nephilim — framing human corruption as partly seeded from above.
Read the passages as one.
Christianity
1 Enoch — Book of the Watchers
“And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters.”
Christianity
1 Enoch — Book of the Watchers
“And Azâzêl taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all colouring tinctures.”