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did some people existed b4 adam was created?
markn902:
Can I chime in?
I have in my own experience simply accepted that there are things in the bible that do not have a definitive answer. I have accepted my own ignorance of such things. I have a limited ability to understand the unknowable
( is that a word?) I can't think of anything that doesn't have a definite answer in scripture that in anyway goes against the "Foundational Truths" that we all ( I assume) believe in here.
No one man has the answer to every scriptural question ( except one and he walked around 2000 years ago)
If any one man or group had the answer to every scriptural question history would have shown that out by now.
I believe that it is arrogant to think that you do IMO.
I am by no means criticizing the OP or his question. It is a very valid question and the answer is I don't know.
Science would seem to point to "Neanderthals" but that leads us back to the question Ray answered in his 08 conference on "was the earth created in 7 days" No it was not created in what we call days.
This brings me back to another "opinion" that is strictly mine and that is..every time we has humans AD have tried to put our concept of linear time to scripture it causes strife. How can we fathom what has no beginning or end? Science has found a way to figure time into a mathematical formula that I believe only scratches the surface of just how awesome and amazing our Creator is. We think in terms of Past, Present, Future, Thats how we are wired. but that concept is meaningless to God and was created for us so we can learn to be Gods Children.
I may have gotten off topic here and I apologize I just wanted to add my two cents and say I am smart enough to understand I don't understand and humble enough to not feel like I should be able to.
Thanks ;)
markn902:
--- Quote from: John from Kentucky on January 27, 2011, 12:13:03 PM ---I am positive that God created some men before Adam. During my life, I have met many of their descendants. Real barbarians. ;D
--- End quote ---
LOL that was funny
I also wanted to add to my post above I am a Bible Truth amateur and in no way as learned as the Moderators and other members who post here frequently. They absolutely know what they are talking about and that is the reason this is the only place I come to find clarity to scriptural questions and to learn new things. :)
Kat:
Hi bob,
Well I certainly don't have all the answers, maybe not any of the answers. Now I do think about it, so if there were intelligent humans that lived before Adam, I would think that in itself would be good enough reason for them to be in the resurrection as much as any other human being, right?
Uh oh, but God didn't make the earth big enough for all these people to live on at one time. And there is not enough natural resources to substain all those people either :( Well lets see what we have.
This earth has immense tracts of desert, forests or jungles, mountains, polar regions, wetlands and swamps. So only one fourth of all the land on earth is fit for or used for the growing of crops and over half of that land is not under cultivation. So when you add up all the people that have lived that were to come up in the resurrection there would be major problems, wouldn't it? Or would it?
Do we really think that God has not thought this through? Did He underestimate how many people there would be at the resurrection? Or maybe things be worked out in a way that we don't suspect or can understand right now.
Isa 35:1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
Isa 11:5 Righteousness shall be the belt of His loins,
And faithfulness the belt of His waist.
v. 6 "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb,
The leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
The calf and the young lion and the fatling together;
And a little child shall lead them.
v. 7 The cow and the bear shall graze;
Their young ones shall lie down together;
And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
v. 8 The nursing child shall play by the cobra's hole,
And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper's den.
v. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,
For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD
As the waters cover the sea.
Things will be different.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
walt123:
Hi , all
This information bring many question,
Since all have sinned, Adam and eve where not the first.
Romans 5:12 (New International Version, ©2010)
12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned
And also if Adam was created and eve formed,how were the people
before them made?, just a couple of thoughts .
But as touching on how all the people are going to live on the earth,
Revelation 21:1 (New International Version, ©2010)
A New Heaven and a New Earth
1 Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.
Isaiah 65:17 (New International Version, ©2010)
17 “See, I will create
new heavens and a new earth.
The former things will not be remembered,
nor will they come to mind
Walt.
grapehound:
As to the BUMP question, my understanding of scientific evidence, is that there was a quantum leap from Neanderthal, to Cro Magnon.
It appears that Cro Magnon's appearing, spelled the end for the inferior Troglodyte.
Any thoughts?
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