Testament of Adam

The Testament of Adam is a Jewish pseudepigraphical work extant in Syriac and Arabic. The earliest manuscript is dated to the 6th century, but the text is 4th century AD in origin, probably composed in Edessa. It purports to relate the final words of Adam to his son Seth in which he speaks of prayer and then prophesies both the coming of the Messiah and the Great Flood.
For other accounts of the last words of Adam see Apocalypse of Adam, Life of Adam and Eve and Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan.

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[IkarOphir]

How did Adam know of the assyrian king?

[Apocryphile1970]

@IkarOphir Well, here's the thing.... This last section is found in only ONE of the manuscripts and is thought to have been circulated separately. Whatever may have been original in this section was probably much shorter, but later documents (seeing that most of this is told in the PAST tense instead of the future tense) were probably integrated into the texts.

[Apocryphile1970]

@IkarOphir Having said that, I believe that ALL of God's prophets could see across time. Jesus himself said that Abraham SAW HIS DAY & Rejoiced. Also, at his transfiguration we see BOTH Moses AND Elijah. Were they visiting him from their OWN TIME? Based on the fact that he said Abraham SAW his day, it implies that he saw it from his OWN TIME, so it was a specific vision of the future, much like we see in the Testament of Adam. I thus have no trouble believing extremely specific stuff like this.

[Apocryphile1970]

@IkarOphir Stuff that is THAT specific strains the credulity of the scholar and the skeptic. Books that the scholarly and the skeptic could not believe were always marginalized and rejected. These time travel clues in the NT remind us that we should not be so quick to dismiss these kinds of things.

[Apocryphile1970]

@IkarOphir If Abraham could SEE Jesus' day ACROSS TIME, and Moses, AND Elijah could both actually STAND in the presence of Jesus, Peter, John & James such that Peter would physically offer to build them each a physical tabernacle, then they were in effect time traveling. This concept is therefore a Christian teaching, but skeptics don't generalize the principle being taught by such a revelation. I believe that Adam saw the future just as Abraham, Moses, & Elijah did. Nothing strange about it!!!

[Apocryphile1970]

@trekyz Well, how could we? If it is not US, but God Who redeems us to Himself. And Whose virtue is revealed in us? Certainly not our own. We are made gods by HIM in only by being IN Him. Our own light is lit by its recognition of His light in our lives. We must wait until His light shines in us and His virtue shines in us, thereby making us like himself to appreciate it. In this age we cannot embody any of this except in part, and that imperfectly, but God has this in mind for us ultimately....

[Apocryphile1970]

@trekyz Won't that be wonderful?!?

[trekyz]

@Apocryphile1970

The only light would not be our own, but Elohim's light.

- 2 Samuel 22:29.

-Psalm 4:6

-Isaiah 60:19

-Matthew 5:13-16

-John 3:18-20

-John9:5

-Romans 13:12

[trekyz]

@Apocryphile1970

I'm not sure that we become gods. Being saved, we are Elohim's, and he saves us from eternal death. When we are saved, it is not us who live, but Elohim who lives in us.

-Galatians 2:20,

[Apocryphile1970]

@trekyz By losing yourself in the knowledge that God assigns you angels and archangels and all to watch over you, you appreciate some of the machinery behind this wall of illusions, this strong delusion that has us in its grasp, because there is no good in the flesh, except insofar as providing us with weaknesses that, because we are subject to the flesh, can be forgiven us who are compelled, like Adam, to live in the flesh. Under such a reality, only God need Himself to be perfect in the flesh.