Re: [asa] Re: Reading Genesis theologically NOT historically

From: Dick Fischer <dickfischer@verizon.net>
Date: Tue Oct 06 2009 - 12:06:34 EDT

Well, to George's point:

 

"Adam IS mankind."

 

George, this is just a dogmatic assertion in the face of contrary evidence.  There is no leg upon which you can stand.

 

Consider Deut 32:8:  “When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.”

 

Not only is the writer saying that Adam was a father who had sons, he is linking the posterity directly to Israel.  That’s been my point all along.

 

I would like to see the pen and ink corrections to Luke 3:38: “ … which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.”

 

How does “mankind” fit in that verse?  Or fit “mankind” in Romans 5:14: “Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.”

 

Was Enoch the seventh from “mankind” in Jude 1:14?  I don’t think so.

 

So if we just assume the Bible writers, and Josephus, and the writer of Jubliees, and the unknown chroniclers whose works were destroyed over the centuries knew of what they wrote, then Adam was a person who lived in southern Mesopotamia, land of the Tigris and Euphrates, about 7,000 years ago and started the Semitic race.  What is so hard to understand about that?

Okay, some theological assumptions may be wrong.  Change them!

Dick Fischer

www.historicalgenesis.com


Oct 5, 2009 07:29:39 PM, GMURPHY10@neo.rr.com wrote:

No, what I accept is that "Adam" - "the man" - in Gen.2 & 3 is a theological representative of the human race.  My statement "Adam IS mankind" is a bit strong but deliberately so to set it off from Dick's claim that Adam was "an emissary to humanity."
 
Shalom
George
http://home.roadrunner.com/~scitheologyglm
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George Murphy wrote: "Adam IS mankind."
 
If that is the case, George, and if you accept the logic *there must have been a first,* then do you accept that the 'first human' was ADAM, i.e. the first of 'mankind' or 'humanity'? If not, then why not? Are you a *degree, not kind* guy?

From: George Murphy <GMURPHY10@neo.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: [asa] Re: Reading Genesis theologically NOT historically


When humankind (not just a single individual) is said to be created in the image & likeness of God in Gen.1:2, it's quite legitimate (IMO) to interpret the following words, "and let them [N.B.] have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thin that creeps upon the earth" (NRSV).  I.e., humans are to be God's representatives in ruling the other creatures of the world.  The word "emissary" is really too weak for this.  But more importantly, there is no suggestion that oen human being is commissioned to be an emissary to other human beings.  So the point remains, there is no canonical texts that says - ot implies - "that Adam was God’s emissary to mankind."   Adam IS mankind.
 
 
 

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