[WhiskeyX]

“IF Adam and Eve were the very first two physical humans:”

Define “humans,” do you include the Neanderthals as “humans” or not?

Are Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis, supposed to be among the other tribes?

[marron]

Your guess is as good as mine. :)

[TXnMA]

Before I respond to Betty Boop's excellent and thought-provoking discourse, I should do what I should have done earlier: reply to WhiskeyX's :

TXnMA: “IF Adam and Eve were the very first two physical humans:”

Whiskey X: Define “humans,” do you include the Neanderthals as “humans” or not?"

Are Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis, supposed to be among the other tribes?

My definition of (physical) "Human" is "Homo sapiens".

While interbreeding of Homo sapiens with Homo neanderthalis may well have been possible, I exclude Neanderthals from the designation, "Human" for various reasons, not excluding their obviously rudimentary hand-eye motor skills and lack of pre-plannning and visualization mentation evident in their artifact assemblage.

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Beyond a doubt, Adam and Eve were the epitome of physical Homo sapiens perfection. In fact, I fully expect that there is not a heterosexual male alive today that would not consider Eve to be the absolutely most beautiful and desirable woman he could possibly imagine -- and the same with modern women and Adam... But, that is just speaking of their physical and mental attributes.

What I DO believe is that Adam and Eve were the VERY FIRST humans ("Mankind") (Homo sapiens) to be spiritually "In the image and likeness of God".

We are, indeed, blessed to count our descent from them!

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"God is Spirit". Even Jesus "took upon Himself the form of a man..."

But, I honestly don't understand many folks' hangup with believing that God physically looks just like them -- except for having been misled by erroneous teaching and artifice like that of Michaelangelo...

...that belittles God by reducing him to human form, frailty and scale...