Paul wrote: If you want to get even closer to the Bible, combine "the Adam"
of Gen 1:26,
27 with "the Adam" of Gen 2:7, 8, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 3:8, 9,
12, 20, 22, 24; so that the individual man Adam is indistinguishable from
"the Adam" of Gen 1:26, 27.
That is what Gen 5:1, 2 does: In 5:1 "This is the book of the generations of
Adam. In the day that God created Adam, in the likeness of God made he him."
Adam is used without the
article, indicating an individual name, which is at least a sure
interpretation in the phrase, "book of the generations of Adam" (note also
the singular pronoun "him.") Then 5:2 says, "male and female created he
_them_, and blessed _them_, and called _their_ name Adam, in the day when
they were created." "Their name Adam" uses Adam without the article and the
next verse shows that the individual Adam of Gen 2 is indeed the one being
spoken of; but the "them," "them," "their" take you back to Gen 1:26, "male
and female created he them." So, the Bible identifies the individual Adam of
Gen 2 with the "them" of Gen 1:26, 27. The Bible does not separate the Adam
of Gen 2 from "the Adam" of Gen 1:26, 27.
Paul,
You say that the writer of Gen. 5:1, 2 combines "the Adam" of Gen. 1:26, 27
with "the Adam" of Gen. chapters 2 and 3. However, this is only an assumption
on your part which is entirely based on the fact that he uses the same
phraseology to refer to both of their creations. The fact of the matter is,
the writer of Genesis may have deliberately chosen to use the same
phraseology to describe two separate creative acts. Why? Because those two
creative acts were so similar in content, and because the second one
described in Gen. 2, God's creation of Adam and Eve, was actually intended by
God to symbolically "replicate" the first one described in Gen. 1, God's
creation of the human race.
Mike
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