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newgene87:
So I just noticed something shakey after reading over about the Creation teaching from ray...Now, from a email

"Chapter two does not contradict chapter one. The order in chapter one is plants, animals, and then humanity.  Is this not the order found in the geologic table?  Chapter two does not recount the creation of humanity, but rather the creation of Adam and Eve.  In Genesis 1:26 God "made" [Heb: 'asah'] male and female. In Gen. 2:6 God "formed" [Heb: 'yatsar'] Adam--two difference Hebrew words: two different formations.  Notice that it doesn't say in chapter 2 verse 3 that there was no man on earth at this time, but rather that there was "no man to till the ground."  There were men, but they were hunters/gatherers, not farmers.  God is now going to make a more advance human to cultivate and farm the land. 

And i thought back to 1 Corinthians 15:44 - "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul..." and "The first man is of the earth, earthy" --- wouldnt that mean ADAM, of Genesis 2, was the FIRST MAN?? BUT Ray says, there were men BEFORE Adam - but Adam was just the first farmer??

It just hit me. Just need a little clarification

Dave in Tenn:
That's not all he said, 'that Adam was the first farmer'.  That's not all Paul said either, come to think of it.

"So it is written..."

Try Gen. 1 and 2 in the CLV, where you'll get a more accurate verb tense translation and 'concordant' translations for all the words.   

It's also helpful to remember that 'scientfic' or 'colloquial' uses of the word 'man' -- even Adam --are not necessarily scriptural uses of the word translated 'man'.  The 'Adam' of I Cor. 15 is a transliteration of the Hebrew word 'adam' of Genesis 1 and 2. 

What does any of that mean?  It means there's more than one way to skin a cat.   :D 

This has come up many times, and there's no easy answer for it.  Sorry.  I think I might get it, but I can't prove it and couldn't 'teach ' it if my life depended on it.  So I won't. 

 

Kat:

Hi Eugene,

There is one very huge difference between Adam and any other humans, that science prove lived on earth long before Adam. Adam was the first man that knew of and talked to God! As Ray said, "God is now going to make a more advance human to cultivate and farm the land," and also God is beginning His work of salvation with this "first" man.

1Co 15:45  And so it is written, The firstG4413 man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

G4413 prōtos - Contracted superlative of G4253; foremost (in time, place, order or importance): - before, beginning, best, chief (-est), first (of all), former.

mercy, peace and love
Kat

ez2u:
which are we?

dave:
You have raised a very interesting question, very interesting in deed.

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