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    Adam Was Not the First Human, for the Bible Tells Us So

    In Googling today who was the first liar, I came across this article. I thought some of the hypothesis in the article were interesting. He does address the flood and his opinion that it wasn't global. I think LCash as a geologist believed the same thing didn't he? And that Adam's creation was the story of the kingly lineage, and not him being the first human made. In addressing that he brings up as others have that who were the people Cained feared? How could have there been that many people on the earth when Cain said that? Etc Etc. Anyway, just posted for interests sake if anybody wishes to address anything in it. I kind of skimmed it but didn't read it in detail, so I don't expect anybody else will. lol.
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    Was Adam the First Human?

    The creation of man in Genesis has always been read to mean that Adam was the first human God created. Why is that exactly? This isn't stated anywhere. In fact, what it actually says is that God created humans on day 6 of the creation account in chapter 1, then God rested on day 7 at the beginning of chapter 2, then comes the story of Adam's creation. It's nothing more than an assumption that these are two tellings of the same event.

    For most of recorded human history, it really didn't matter. The events listed in the creation account were of little consequence. Whether God created all the earth in six days or in 4.54 billion years was irrelevant as there was no way of knowing one way or the other. There wasn't any reason to even suspect it was any different than how it read, and the overall message of the Bible didn't hinge on it.

    Today, it does matter. In these modern times, we now understand more about the history of the earth and humanity than ever before. Modern understanding has proven to be in direct conflict with traditional interpretations of Genesis. This has resulted in many rejecting the Bible as nothing more than mythology, and many others rejecting modern wisdom and scientific progress as false.

    The creation versus evolution debate has come to be one of the most divisive topics we face. Many people of faith fight tooth and nail to keep topics like evolution out of the school curriculum, and many others don't see why their children must remain in the dark because some people can't let go of their old religious beliefs.

    The interpretation that says Adam was the first man in existence is the primary misconception that makes the Bible and modern science seemingly incompatible. Correcting this one small error takes pre-flood Genesis out of the realm of mythology and plants it firmly into known history...

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    Gen 2:4 This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
    5 before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; 6 but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.
    7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

    That's not day 8. Verse 4 ties the account to the creation of the heavens and the earth.

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    I remember LCash. You know something close to this topic in a way. Benny Hinn I watched a video of him years ago back during my time here as F&FF. But Benny talked about God destroyed the earth once with fire, before Adam & Eve. I think it was somewhere in Daniel he got this from. He aligned it with the fallen angels if I remember right in Genesis. Then again all this stuff is way out of league. Interesting though for sure.

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    I Corinthians 15:45-47
    (45) And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening Spirit.
    (46) Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
    (47) The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.





    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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    Quote Originally Posted by GodismyJudge View Post

    I Corinthians 15:45-47
    (45) And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening Spirit.
    (46) Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
    (47) The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.





    Good point.

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