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