Re: Did Adam Evolve?

rycttb@sprynet.com
Thu, 23 Jan 1997 06:16:08 -0800

rcannon wrote
>2. The Spirit of Adam was created directly by God at the moment of his
>conception thus making him unique a spiritual person. His father and
>mother, being pre-Adamic, did not have a human spirit. In other words,
>the Homo Sapiens species began merely as the "highest animal" and God
>chose one to be Adam and gave him a spirit. After Adam was born and
>until the flood, both pre-Adamic and Adamic lines lived together.
Jay P Green, Sr in The Interlinear Bible has a literal
translation. Gen 1:20 reads, "And God said, Let the waters
swarm with the swamers having a soul (Strongs # 5315) of life..."
(Strongs # 2416).
Gen 1:21 reads, "And God created the great sea animals, and all
that creeps, having a living soul, which swarmed the waters,
according to its kind;..."
Gen 2:7 ends, "and man became a living (Strongs # 2416) soul..."
(Strongs # 5315).
Question: Where does the Bible preclude Adam's parents (Mr.
and Mrs. Dust) from having an eternal soul or spirit?
Assuming, of course, that Adam had parents. Like the sea
animals they must have
had a living soul. It may have been eternal or it may not
have been eternal.
I know the Bible says that Adam was the first man. I Corinthians
15:45. In my mind, it was God who decided Adam was the first one
advanced or different enough to be called man. This however
does not necessarily prove that God didn't have any type of
relationship with
any creatures who lived before Adam. I think many Neanderthals
lived before Adam and I think they believed in life after
death. I remember reading here that they buried flowers with
their dead. Of course, we are not told if they had an eternal
spirit or if they had a concept of sin. Apparently God didn't
see fit to worry our heads with such details. Jesus died for
man not for Neanderthals. However, that does not mean Neanderthals
and others before humans didn't experience some type of
relationship with God. They may have had eternal spirits.
Perhaps they had no concept of sin and therefore couldn't
sin. I favor that idea since Adam, as an adult, had
never sinned until one day when he took that sinful bite.
Neither one of my kids are adults yet but they've sinned,
humm, zillions of times.
Wayne Mckellips
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