In the News ... "Adam and Eve pondered"

Painting by Benjamin West

• Story of mankind’s origin broaches issues of good and evil, disobedience and salvation

By Bob Campbell, Reporter
• Odessa American

ODESSA, TEXAS - The story of Adam and Eve in the first three chapters of Genesis tells as much about God as it does about the origin of mankind, clergymen say.

Ministers James Cosentino, Adam Elliott and Jimmy Braswell say the couple who were created by God, enticed by Satan in the form of a snake and expelled from the Garden of Eden for eating fruit from the Tree of Life were the reason sin came into the world but that they found redemption through repentance ...

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