RE: [asa] The Bible does not require a Neolithic Adam!

A map of Mesopotamia shows three of the four and the now dry creek bed
dubbed the "Kuwait River" which once flowed from Saudi Arabia makes four.

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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of Michael Roberts
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:27 PM
To: Iain Strachan; Glenn Morton
Cc: ASA List
Subject: Re: [asa] The Bible does not require a Neolithic Adam!

There is simply not enough details in early Genesis to make any conclusions
of real value, but a literal or strongly historical understanding points to
something fairly recent.

Should one do what Sir Walter Raleigh did while waiting for execution when
he wrote The History of the World? He drew some lovely maps of the four
rivers of Genesis two .

That is the logic of both Glenn's and Dick's position and I cant accommodate
them

Michael

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From: Iain <mailto:igd.strachan@gmail.com> Strachan

To: Glenn <mailto:glennmorton@entouch.net> Morton

Cc: ASA List <mailto:asa@calvin.edu>

Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:58 PM

Subject: Re: [asa] The Bible does not require a Neolithic Adam!

On 10/26/06, Glenn Morton <glennmorton@entouch.net> wrote:

Dick, you are avoiding the issue. There is nothing in the Scripture that
says Adam was living at anytime within the past 150,000 years either. Do you
agree?

I don't know what Dick has to say on this issue, but I don't agree. It
seems to me that you want to have your cake and eat it. You don't want the
bible to be "wrong", so you try to push back Adam to huge times in the past.
But if you want to take the Bible literally, then the Genealogies from Adam
to Noah (around 1650 years) and from Noah to Abraham (around 400 years?)
would indicate that either Abraham also lived millions of years ago, or that
Adam lived only a few thousand years before Christ.

I'm not saying that I take these genealogies literally, but they do counter
your claim that there is nothing in Scripture that says Adam was living
anytime in the past 150,000 years. These genealogies clearly say he only
lived a few thousand years ago.

I'm wondering you you reconcile this?

Iain

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