{"id":3526,"date":"2024-05-24T19:18:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T19:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/did-adam-and-eve-go-to-heaven\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T22:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T22:35:22","slug":"did-adam-and-eve-go-to-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/learn\/did-adam-and-eve-go-to-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Gingen Adam en Eva naar de hemel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cppw-protected cppw-protected--overlay\"><div class=\"cppw-excerpt cppw-excerpt--overlay\"><p>Scripture never tells us whether Adam and Eve went to heaven. Genesis follows them through their disobedience, out of Eden and on to Adam&#039;s death at 930 years, and it never mentions Eve&#039;s death at all. Catholic and Orthodox tradition holds that Christ set them free when he went down to the dead, and the Orthodox Church honors them as saints. The hope for them begins in Genesis itself. Before God sent our first parents out of the garden, &quot;the\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall paywp-paywall\" data-required-level=\"25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cppw-lock-mark\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n\t\t\t<h2>Continue reading with a subscription<\/h2>\n\t\t\t<p>Get unlimited access to all our premium content and exclusive features.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"cppw-paywall__actions\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-button wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/become-a-member\/\">Subscribe now<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"cppw-login-link\" href=\"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/login\/\">Already a subscriber? Sign in<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"cppw-paywall__microcopy\">Enjoy unlimited access, cancel anytime.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture does not say, but Catholic and Orthodox tradition holds that Christ freed Adam and Eve from the realm of the dead, and the Orthodox honor them as saints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[],"series":[80],"class_list":["post-3526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible-mysteries","series-adam-and-eve"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18580,"url":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/nl\/learn\/eve-named-in-bible\/","url_meta":{"origin":3526,"position":0},"title":"How Many Times Is Eve Mentioned in the Bible? 4, or 5 With Tobit","author":"Christian Pure Team","date":"februari 19, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Eve is named four times in Protestant Bibles: Genesis 3:20 and 4:1, 2 Corinthians 11:3, 1 Timothy 2:13. 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