Abdul Baha says this is one of the meanings of the biblical story of Adam
Adam is the spirit of Adam, and Eve is His soul; the tree of good and evil signifies the human world, and the serpent is that attachment to this world which constitutes sin, and which has infected the descendants of Adam. This attachment of the spirit to the human world led the soul and spirit of Adam from the world of freedom to the world of bondage and caused Him to turn from the Kingdom of Unity to the human world. When the soul and spirit of Adam entered the human world, He came out from the paradise of freedom and fell into the world of bondage. From the height of purity and absolute goodness, He entered into the world of good and evil.
The tree of life is the highest degree of the world of existence: the position of the Word of God, and the supreme Manifestation. When the sanctified breezes of Christ and the holy light of the Greatest Luminary (Bahá'u'lláh)] were spread abroad, the human realities (those who turned toward the Word of God and received the profusion of His bounties) were saved from this attachment and sin, obtained everlasting life, were delivered from the chains of bondage, and attained to the world of liberty. They were freed from the vices of the human world, and were blessed by the virtues of the Kingdom. This is the meaning of the words of Christ, "I gave My blood for the life of the world" [Cf. John 6:51.]--that is to say, I have chosen all these troubles, these sufferings, calamities, and even the greatest martyrdom, to attain this object, the remission of sins (that is, the detachment of spirits from the human world, and their attraction to the divine world) in order that souls may arise who will be the very essence of the guidance of mankind, and the manifestations of the perfections of the Supreme Kingdom.http://bahai-library.com/writings/abdulbaha/saq/30.html
Regarding thy question as to the beginning of Creation: Know thou that the Truth (GOD) has eternally ever been, and so also have His creatures, for there is no beginning either for the Truth (God) or for the creatures. According to the bodies in the contingent world, the "beginning" mentioned in the Holy Scriptures means the beginning of the Manifestation, and "creation" signifies the Second Spiritual Birth: as Christ says, "You must be born again." There is no doubt that the beginning of this Spiritual creation was the Manifestation Himself, for each Manifestation of the Divine Manifestations is the Adam (of His time,) and His first believer is Eve, while all the souls who are born of the Second Birth are His children and descendents.
http://bahai-library.com/personal_brett_zamir#adameve
Ezekiel 18:14-20 explicitly rejects inheritance of sin:https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+18:14-20
Abdul Baha says that women in the holy scriptures means the soul of man and the man means the spirit. No wonder it says men should rule over women.
Adam is the spirit of Adam, and Eve is His soul; the tree of good and evil signifies the human world, and the serpent is that attachment to this world which constitutes sin, and which has infected the descendants of Adam. This attachment of the spirit to the human world led the soul and spirit of Adam from the world of freedom to the world of bondage and caused Him to turn from the Kingdom of Unity to the human world. When the soul and spirit of Adam entered the human world, He came out from the paradise of freedom and fell into the world of bondage. From the height of purity and absolute goodness, He entered into the world of good and evil.
The tree of life is the highest degree of the world of existence: the position of the Word of God, and the supreme Manifestation. When the sanctified breezes of Christ and the holy light of the Greatest Luminary (Bahá'u'lláh)] were spread abroad, the human realities (those who turned toward the Word of God and received the profusion of His bounties) were saved from this attachment and sin, obtained everlasting life, were delivered from the chains of bondage, and attained to the world of liberty. They were freed from the vices of the human world, and were blessed by the virtues of the Kingdom. This is the meaning of the words of Christ, "I gave My blood for the life of the world" [Cf. John 6:51.]--that is to say, I have chosen all these troubles, these sufferings, calamities, and even the greatest martyrdom, to attain this object, the remission of sins (that is, the detachment of spirits from the human world, and their attraction to the divine world) in order that souls may arise who will be the very essence of the guidance of mankind, and the manifestations of the perfections of the Supreme Kingdom.http://bahai-library.com/writings/abdulbaha/saq/30.html
Regarding thy question as to the beginning of Creation: Know thou that the Truth (GOD) has eternally ever been, and so also have His creatures, for there is no beginning either for the Truth (God) or for the creatures. According to the bodies in the contingent world, the "beginning" mentioned in the Holy Scriptures means the beginning of the Manifestation, and "creation" signifies the Second Spiritual Birth: as Christ says, "You must be born again." There is no doubt that the beginning of this Spiritual creation was the Manifestation Himself, for each Manifestation of the Divine Manifestations is the Adam (of His time,) and His first believer is Eve, while all the souls who are born of the Second Birth are His children and descendents.
http://bahai-library.com/personal_brett_zamir#adameve
Ezekiel 18:14-20 explicitly rejects inheritance of sin:https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+18:14-20
Abdul Baha says that women in the holy scriptures means the soul of man and the man means the spirit. No wonder it says men should rule over women.
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