>>Genesis 1 in my view is the proclamations of what the universe would be lik
>>made by God prior to the existence of the universe. There was no Adam prio
>>to the creation of the universe. The Genesis 1 Adam refers to the Genesis
>>Adam in the same sense as a prophecy refers to the future. One Adam. That
>>all there was.
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>This would mean that God prophesied in the past tense. But that would
>not make it a prophecy, would it? It would be an historical account.
>Perhaps you mean Genesis 1 includes an account of proclamation +
>prophecy + fulfillment?
You are not distinguishing what God did in the distant past from how the
writer of the account could relate those events to his contemporary audience
in the less distant past.
glenn
Foundation,Fall and Flood
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