The answer
There is a tradition that Adam was buried on Golgotha, or Calvary,32 which is the same place upon which the Master Christ was crucified. However, this is a tradition that is not supported by Holy Scripture, which tells us in the Book of Genesis that God created Adam in the Garden of Eden, and not in Golgotha, which is in Jerusalem. Some painters have depicted the scene of the Crucifixion with a skull at the base of the Cross, alluding to the skull of the First Man Adam. This traditional depiction suggests that the place where the First Man Adam died, and by whom sin entered into the world, is the same place where the Last Adam, Our Lord Jesus Christ, died in order to wipe away the transgressions of the sinners by His death on the wood of the Cross.
On another note, the place where Abraham the Patriarch wanted offer his son, Isaac, as a sacrifice to God, which is known as Mount Moriah (Gen. 22:2), is the same place where the Temple of Solomon once stood in the City of Jerusalem, or al-Quds. So, the place where the Crucifixion of Christ took place, and the place where Isaac was offered as a sacrifice, as two places in the City of al-Quds, which was known as Jerusalem.
His Holiness Pope Tawadros II
Notes
32 Translator’s note: The Place of a Skull (Matt. 27:33; Mark 15:22; Luke 23:33; John 19:17).
Pope Tawadros II, My Faith: A Series of Dialogues on the Creed (Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate, 2014), 90–91.
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