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- proper noun Christianity In the book of
Genesis , a garden at the source of the Gihon, Pison, Tigris, and Euphrates rivers, whereAdam andEve first lived after being created byGod . - noun cellular automata A pattern that can only exist as an
initial state and is not reachable from any other state.
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- noun a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were driven from their paradise (the fall of man)
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Examples
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But whether it took place in time historically, geographically in this place we call the Garden of Eden, I think, is immaterial.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Pride was also responsible for the fall of humanity, which resulted from Adam and Eve's wanting to be like God and thus eating from the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden.
Rev. Patrick S. Cheng, Ph.D.: The Spiritual Significance of Pride 2010
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The story of the Garden of Eden tells us that pride was the original sin.
Rediscovering Values Jim Wallis 2010
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At an art museum in Europe, an Englishman, a Frenchman, and a North Korean stand before a painting of Adam and Eve holding an apple in the Garden of Eden.
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The story of the Garden of Eden tells us that pride was the original sin.
Rediscovering Values Jim Wallis 2010
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Meyer has said that the apple on the cover of the first "Twilight" novel represents Eve's choice in the Garden of Eden.
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Pride was also responsible for the fall of humanity, which resulted from Adam and Eve's wanting to be like God and thus eating from the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden.
Rev. Patrick S. Cheng, Ph.D.: The Spiritual Significance of Pride 2010
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The story of the Garden of Eden tells us that pride was the original sin.
Rediscovering Values Jim Wallis 2010
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Meyer has said that the apple on the cover of the first "Twilight" novel represents Eve's choice in the Garden of Eden.
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The story of the Garden of Eden tells us that pride was the original sin.
Rediscovering Values Jim Wallis 2010
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