Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 53
on the Biblical version, we find that Adam erred in good faith. (Genesis, Ch. 1: 27): "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created He him, male and female created He them. ". Man whom God made in His own image includes both the male and female of the species. Both man, the male and his female-the woman-have been created in the image of God. This cannot mean that God has nose, ears, and eyes and other limbs as human beings have. All that it signifies is that the attributes of the Supreme Creator were incorporated in Adam (peace be on him). Thus when God the Almighty made man according to His own image and told him that he had been created to radiate His attributes, it could not but happen that Adam would imbibe the attribute of discriminating between good and evil. . What Satan told Adam, therefore, was in effect: "God has made you the radiator of His attributes. One of the Divine attributes is His Power of discriminating between good and evil. As God knows good from evil, so should you know good from evil. And the only way to do so is that you should partake of the fruit of knowledge. And if you would not eat of it, you will have no means of knowing good from bad. . And through lack of knowledge of good and evil, you will not become the perfect manifestation of Divine attributes. . It is, therefore, imperative that you should partake of its fruit; in other words, become like God by eating its fruit or, in still better language, if you will eat of the fruit of this tree, you will have attained the object of your existence for which God made you. ” Suppose it all happened in this manner; if. Adam was thus led to an error of judgment, would any blame attach to him? A person walks up to Adam and says: "Look,