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To: SeekAndFind

You are using quotes around “Man and woman.”

Actual wording (AV: “But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.”

There is a big difference between referring to a split of the human species from the beginning into “male and female,” and a claim that the entire species is descended from a single man and a single woman.


16 posted on 01/07/2014 3:21:04 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

Still it says God made them male and female.

In other words, the creator is GOD -— GOD MADE.

Also, the New Testament tells us that Jesus Himself commissioned St. Paul to be his APOSTLE.

Adam and Eve show up in the Pauline Epistles, mainly in Romans, 1 Corinthians, and 1 Timothy. In these epistles, Paul affirms the historical record that Adam and Eve existed, the same way the Old Testament affirms their existence.

For instance, Romans 5:

“Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned– for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come” (Romans 5:12-14, NASB).

In short, the New Testament AFFIRMS the LITERAL existence of Adam and Eve.

Unless of course, you want to change what St. Paul wrote and make it metaphorical...


17 posted on 01/07/2014 3:26:29 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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