[ahayes]

Well, it failed in its purpose, then, since the population was not reduced to 8 people.

[Alamo-Girl]

Well, it failed in its purpose, then, since the population was not reduced to 8 people.

To the contrary, the world population was reduced to 8 descendants of Adam.

Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. - I Peter 3:20

Those eight were the only living souls (neshama) spared in the Noah Flood.

Which is my central point, whether law writings or prophesy - the Scriptures beginning in Genesis 2 - focus on the life (or not) of Adamic men.

Non-Adamic men are brought into the story, the promise, later through Jesus Christ (the Song of Moses is sung along with the Song of the Lamb in Revelation 15, sheepfolds, etc.)

So also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [was made] a quickening spirit. – I Corinthians 15:42-45

To God be the glory, not man, never man!

[Quix]

I believe that we will discover that assertion to be wrong.

IIRC, I even read some genetics DNA studies indicating something like that had to have happened.