Russ - It will be no surprise that I disagree with you on some aspects
of this issue, but I think you are correct in opposing pre-Adamite
ideas. _adham_ is the human, so pre-adamite humans means pre-human
humans, which makes no sense. The human race is a unity. There are
serious theological issues which need to be dealt with here: What (if
any) references to the sin of Adam have to do with an historical origin
of Sin & which are existential statements about the sin of all humans?
Do statements of the first type have to be understood of one human
individual or can they refer to a wider group of "first humans"? There
will be debate among Christians about those issues, but I don't think
adequate resolution will be attained by positing pre-Adamites. That
merely provides some way of thinking of historical events which _might_
correspond with Gen.1-3, & doesn't really get at the deeper theological
issues.
Shalom,
George
gmurphy@imperium.net
http://www.imperium.net/~gmurphy