Peace and blessings to all. ... I can't help but to ask more....questions that I haven't heard anyone ask like...
According to Islam...
1. Was Adam and Eve created in this flesh we have? (I know they were created from dust or clay) were they bound to die just as we are bound to die?
Peace be on you.
From Ahmadiyya-Muslim understandings:
Yes, they were full human after a long chain of events of ceation+guided evolution.
But, they were not first people.
They died as people are bound to die i.e. soul goes back to God, body goes to earth.
2. Will those who make it to paradise physically transform turning this flesh into a new glorious body?
Yes, Hereafter and happenings after that will not be like physical things of this world.
We will raise you into a form of which you have not the slightest knowledge.
Quran- Surah Al-Waqiah (Ch. 56: V.62)
In recent times, the founder of the Ahmadiyya Community, Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (as) of Qadian, presented this view of spiritual existence as against carnal existence in his unique and outstanding treatise entitled 'The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam". All views propounded in the book are well documented with Quranic references and traditions of the Holy Founder of Islam. A brief account is reproduced here.
According to his profound study, the life in the hereafter would not be material. Instead, it would be of a spiritual nature of which we can only visualise certain aspects. We cannot determine precisely how things will take shape. One of the salient features of his vision of the hereafter concerns the soul giving birth to another rarer entity, which would occupy the same position in relation to the soul as the soul occupies in relation to our carnal existence here on earth. This birth of a soul from within the soul will be related to the sort of life that we have lived here on earth. If our lives here are spent in submission to the will of God and in accordance with His commands, our tastes gradually become cultured and attuned to enjoying spiritual pleasures as against carnal pleasures. Within the soul a sort of embryonic soul begins to take shape. New faculties are born and new tastes are acquired, in which those accustomed to carnal pleasures find no enjoyment. These new types of refined human beings can find the content of their heart. Sacrifice instead of the usurpation of others' rights becomes enjoyable. Forgiveness takes the upper hand of revenge, and love with no selfish motive is born like a second nature, replacing all relationships that have ulterior motives. Thus, one can say a new soul within the soul is in the offing.
All these projections regarding the development of the soul are inferences drawn from various verses of the Holy Quran, yet the exact nature of future events cannot be precisely determined. One can only say that something along these lines would take place, the details of which lie beyond the reach of human understanding.
Ref: https://www.alislam.org/books/study-of-islam/life-after-death.html
3. And if so, why? If this flesh we have isn't tainted and sin isn't inherited then why would our bodies have to transform in order to enter heaven?
He lived in this world, not in paradise. [According to Quran, once one in paradise, they are not expelled.]
It is not related with so-called original sin. This sin did not existed according to Quran.
Adam forgot something, repented, and forgiven....That is all.
This world is of less dimensions (x,y,z) and time.
For complete manifestation, Hereafter will have comprehensive dimensions.
If all we need to enter heaven is to have done more good deeds than bad deeds, then why would or bodies need to transform. Especially if God made Adam and Eve in this flesh and according to the Quran they were living in the paradise before they were casted out which brings me to another question....
They were not casted out from paradise.
They were living in the world.
Quran
[2:36] And We said: ‘O Adam, dwell thou and thy wife in the garden, and eat therefrom plentifully wherever you will, but approach not this tree, lest you be of the wrongdoers.’
[2:37] But Satan caused them both to slip by means of it and drove them out of
the state in which they were. And We said: ‘Go forth; some of you are enemies of others, and for you there is an abode in the earth and a provision for a time.
[2:38] Then Adam learnt from his Lord certain words
of prayer. So He turned towards him with mercy. Surely, He is Oft-Returning
with compassion, and is Merciful.
[2:39] We said: ‘Go forth, all of you,
from here. And if there comes to you guidance from Me, then whoso shall follow My guidance, on them
shall come no fear, nor shall they grieve.’
'from here' does not mean paradise. Could be directive to move to other part of land (or condition, state)
According to Islam....
If all we need to be in God's good grace is to have done more good deeds than bad ones, then why did God cast Adam and Eve out of the paradise after they were tricked by satan and God accepted their repentance. Why would he let us into paradise after all the sins we have committed if he casted Adam and Eve out after only one sin which was initiated by satan? Repentance is a good deed...isn't it? And I'm sure by the time they committed that one sin, Adam and Eve had already done way more good deeds. They obeyed God upto that point....right? And even when they sinned, it was because they were tricked by satan. Isn't God the most merciful? According to the scriptures, God knew satan would try to trick them and that's why God warned them so intensely. So why would God cast them out of the paradise and punish them so severely for something that he knew would happen; punish them so severely even after he accepted their repentance? It just sounds like God isn't that merciful. How can we make it into paradise? Adam and Eve were cast OUT for one sin so how will we make it INTO paradise with all the sins we have and will continue to commit intentionally and unintentionally?
Quran
[20:116] And verily, We had made a covenant with Adam beforehand, but he forgot, and We found in him no determination
to disobey.
No original sin as we are born as image of God.
After birth we have to work out to progress and get high states of moral and spirituality.
