Adam and Eve the new world is as sinful as the old, God has resolved never again to destroy the world by flood, and the History ends with Terah, the father of Abraham, from whom will descend God's chosen people, the Israelites. Adam and Eve are the Bible's first man and first woman. Adam's name appears first in Genesis 1 with a collective sense, as "mankind"; subsequently in Genesis 2-3 it carries the definite article "ha", equivalent to English "the", indicating that this is "the man". In these chapters God fashions "the man" ("ha adam") from earth ("adamah"), breathes life into his nostrils,
Theodicy and the Bible that the Bible attributes evil "to the abuse of free-will." Others have noted the free will theodicy's "compatibility with and reliance upon the [biblical Book of] Genesis account of creation" and the fall of Adam and Eve into sin. Because of the compatibility between the free will theodicy and the Genesis account of the Creation and Fall of humanity "the Fall-doctrine" has been characterized as "fundamentally an exercise in theodicy-making." The two terms, "freedom" and "free will," are treated together (a) because, by definition, a "free will" means a "will" that possesses "freedom" and (b) because "free will" is "commonly