Armenian text "Concerning Adam, Eve, and the Incarnation" speaks of God the Father once having been a mortal man who became God by eating of the fruit.

Date
1600 - 1700
Type
Manuscript
Source
Michael E. Stone
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Translation
Reference

"Concerning Adam, Eve, and the Incarnation," in Michael E. Stone, trans. Armenian Apocrypha Relating to Adam and Eve (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996), 25

Scribe/Publisher
Brill
People
Michael E. Stone
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

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3 Eve said, 'God said to us not to eat from the fruit of that tree, "lest you die." He said, "When you eat, at that very hour you (shall) go forth from this Garden, and you shall surely die."

4 The serpent spoke with Eve: '(That is) not so! God was a man like you. When he ate of the fruit of this tree he became God of all. Because of that God said to you not to eat, lest you become an equal god, like himself.'

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3 And Eve said, 'God said that we are not to eat of that fruit and "when you eat of it you shall surely die."'

4 The serpent said, 'Because God was a man like you, when he ate this fruit he became God of all. Because of this matter he said, "Do not eat!" Lest you become god.'

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3 And the woman said, 'God commanded us not to eat of that. he said, "When you eat of that, you shall surely die."'

4 But the serpent said, '(That is) not so! Because God himself was a man like you when he ate of it, and he became God of all. Because of that he said not to eat of that, because you knew that when you eat of it, you will become a god, his equal. Because of that he said for you not to eat.'

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