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To: Mark Felton
"Our belief in God appears to have begun at the same time as Biblical scholars believe man was created, approximately 10,000 years ago."

I think - contextually, it is more correctly translated, "Adam" (a particular individual) rather than "man".

21 posted on 08/07/2006 11:21:41 AM PDT by Matchett-PI ( Ignorance is correctable with education, but stupid is forever.)
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To: Matchett-PI; .30Carbine; Alamo-Girl; betty boop; hosepipe; xzins; marron; DaveLoneRanger
A further clarification: Adam was not created; his physical body was made from pre-existing (created) materials ("formed from the dust of the earth"...).


God then endowed the completed (finally "evolved" in both body and brain?) physical proto-man that He had made (Adam) with his Spirit, and, at that point -- and for the first time in untold millions of years of developmental history since Creation of the universe -- a man existed truly "in the Image of God'. God (Spirit) ensouled man with a like sprit -- and, finally man (plus spirit) was truly "in the image of God".

Man's (Adam's) physical body (including brain) was finally formed (developed, matured, ?"evolved"?) to the point of being suitable as a "temple of the Holy Spirit". And that body was designed to survive in (and "have dominion over" God's (earthly, at least) creation .

Nowhere in Scripture (Michaelangelo, et al. notwithstanding) is God described as normally inhabiting a physical body even remotely resembling man's. In fact, Jesus Himself had to "take upon Himself the form of a man" by being incarnated here.

30 posted on 08/07/2006 12:24:58 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah" = Satan in disguise)
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