But life existed before agricultural civilization. The "mythical" (maybe he was literal, I do not know) Adam is not the beginning of everything, but a specific selected individual whose children were farmers, already.
Adam was the beginning of man. He was the first man created 6000 years ago. God formed him from the ground and gave him breadth. He was not born from a womb. He was first.
In the context of the mythological/sacred history in the Bible, yes.
The ones you are talking about. Yes of course they are. There no recorded History of them. These things are driven by explaining a billion year old history that didn’t exists not driven by evidence and documentation of the events. There was a flood that covered the entire earth. That is not made up. Recorded event by many sources. Maybe you confuse that with an ice age. The earth was created 6000 years ago. So how could there be an ice age before then unless it’s made up?
Earth was not created 6,000 years ago. Is this your argument against ice ages? Then its because of your religious bias. You suppose that the biblical text will give you scientific accuracy, so you sum ages of patriarchs to get to Adam and think you got the age of the universe. Wrong.
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Wrong again. Written history in the past was mostly mythological. Stories about beginnings were written relatively lately, not in the actual beginnings. If you will, you can even recognize it in Genesis - countries, rivers, gold, farming, other people around were already mentioned in the first chapters.
You must realize that before the farming society, people were hunters and gatherers. They did not settle down, they did not build cities, they were more (for your better American association) like native Americans, but roaming the ice age land, hunting and eating large animals.
Right, I do.
The painting were created within the past 6000 years - not sure what the problem is with that. The paintings didn't indicate the date/time. Our imagination that they are prehistoric doesnt make them prehistoric. The world was created 6000 years ago. Every event/person/place/thing you know was within the past 6000 years.
I apologize when you said man that existed before Adam I naturally assumed you were talking about Neanderthals so I do apologize for misrepresenting your position. But 1 Corinthians 15:45 still says that Adam was the first man.
You are just still repeating your religious bias and contradicting basically all known facts about our world, just because you think that mythological history is a scientific lesson.
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When I said lean not on your own inderstanding, I meant it. Google "biblical chronology chart" and you'll see.
Ok well that’s where we differ I believe the scriptures and I already pointed out that 1 Corinthians 15:45 specifically says that Adam was the first man. If that’s not a contradiction between science and the Bible then you’re just not acknowledging the facts. Obviously you don’t believe that 1 Corinthians 15:45 is accurate because if you did then you wouldn’t still be hanging on to this idea that man existed before Adam after I showed you that the Bible specifically says that Adam was the first man. I also explained how the city of Nod could’ve been descendants of Adam & Eve by that time because it’s possible that they could’ve had almost 10,000 descendants by the time they were 120 years old. Actually it could’ve been a lot more than that since Seth was said to be a replacement for Able so it’s highly likely that Seth was the next male born from Adam & Eve after Able was killed which could’ve happened anytime after his death. Eve could’ve been pregnant with Seth when Able was killed. So I allowed a 10 year gap between Able & Seth just to s produce a number somewhat on the low side not the maximum number of descendants they could’ve actually had. So you can imagine that 9,667 people continuing to have children for another 10 years multiplies the population drastically. Now we’re getting somewhere close to 50,000 people by the time Adam is 130 years old. So the issue of Cain fearing that someone might kill him is viable according to my interpretation and doesn’t contradict the scriptures at all. Furthermore it makes way more sense that he would fear his own family killing him than some other civilization that had no connection to Able and probably never even knew who Able was to begin with.
