Adam Our Father

God, Majestic is He and Merciful, had created all that we see save man; and in what He created there was none who could be to Him a companion and friend, to know Him and love Him as He should be known and loved. All that lived and all that had sentience which He had created in them knew their Creator and Lord and all did as He intended for them by the nature of their creation. But to none could God Open His Mind and share what He in His Omniscience knew and what He in His Omnipotence had done in creating the Creation as He had. None living and breathing and thinking could know the magnitude of His Mercy or the breadth of His Dominion or the magnanimity of the gift He had given to each by breathing into it of Life, while He is The Living. For this reason He created man.

So just as He had called every thing into existence with His "Be!" and it was, so then did He create our father Adam by saying to him "Be!" But the first Adam did not know Him and love Him as He deigned to be loved and known, and after thousands and thousands of Adams were created and with their own volition that He had created in them chose other than what God would have had them choose, then He created Adam who is our father. God has said that our creation in Adam is the finest thing that He has created.

Our father knows no peer or equal since his time among us, his children. And he knows each and every one of us, our families, our children, our joys and our trials, our failure and success. Because that is what God created in him: all of us. And God Opened His Mind to Adam, that whatever God knows that the mind and heart of man can know, Adam knew. Looking at all of us in the Palms of God's Hands, Adam knew of us what God knows; saw of us what God sees; loved of us what God loves, in Communion and Companionship with God, as he was created to do.

And then Adam displayed his singular feature that is man and human and makes of us what we are and in its operation is what endears us to God, Who created it in us and brought it to fruition as the nature of humanity in Adam: he forgot. And in a forgetful moment, he tripped, partaking of the argument of the rebellious Satan, his enemy and arrogant out of envy against God's creation of Adam, entertaining for the briefest of moments what this liar said of God and His creation, humanity. And God closed His Mind to Adam and he fell from Communion with Him and His Knowledge, taking a hundred years to reach the ground upon which we walk and in which we will be buried.

The rest, as they say, is History. And this is a poor sample of its beginning, the story is so much more than we have placed upon this page. And History, likewise, is partly shown and mostly hidden, as Satan labors to prove his case against man that, even though Adam knew God and loves Him, he is not the better suitor for His Affection and Friendship than is the Deceiver of man, who tripped Adam when he was forgetful of His Lord.

And beyond History is Faith: that as God promised Adam in consolation after the Fall, and that as God promised Noah to assuage his grief after the Flood, and that as God has made known to all of those He has sent among us to tell us of His Ways that He has designed for us, that He will again Open His Mind to Adam, and to the children of Adam, flooding the earth with His Knowledge and His Mercy, that He might be Known and Loved as He should be Known and Loved.

And this story is known to the keepers of every faith, of Judaism, of Christianity, of Islam; and of the sons of Noah all three are to share in His Mercy and their time has come.