Mike writes
>>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.>>
Um, Mike, you're making Paul's case better than he's made it for
himself. You've acknowledged "the same phraseology." If it's the
same phraseology, it's the same person.
I agree that the creative acts were very similar in content. But,
let's give Paul his due. What Paul is saying in no way contradicts
science.
Jim
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