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***The origin of man has no effect whatsoever on belief in the Resurrection of Christ.***

Sinkspur, calling into question the historicity of the first chapters of Genesis has the effect of calling into question the resurrection also. Theologically, Genesis is of critical importance. EVERY theological concept in the Bible has its origin in Genesis.

If you don't trust the historicity of events recorded in the Bible, how can you know the resurrection actually occurred? If you were to submit the resurrection event to the bar of modern science it would be completely rejected. To the modern, scientific mindset the resurrection is not scientifically possible.

I am amazed that you don't see this.

Here is the basic argument.

It is recorded in the scriptures that Jesus viewed the creation of man as literally happening in a six day period and that God created a literal man and a woman.

"The Sabbath was made for man..."
Mark 2:27

The Sabbath, the literal seventh day of the week, was created for man (i.e. man-scaled) to rest on. Jesus saw the Sabbath as a literal, 24hr, once a week, period of rest CREATED specifically for man by God. If the seventh day was on the scale of a geological age then Jesus statement looses all comprehensible meaning.

"And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,"
Matthew 19:4

Jesus is treating the written account of Genesis as literally true and the basis of moral decisions.

In addition, he states that humans were created male and female from the very BEGINNING - a concept that evolution would utterly reject. Jesus is speaking of a literal, special (non-evolutionary) creation of man. Man was not created an asexual organic blob that evolved sexual reproductitive abilities eons later. Jesus said we were created as male and female from the beginning

So you can't have it both ways. Either the evolutionists are right and Jesus is wrong or Jesus is right and the evolutionists are wrong. If Jesus was wrong about creation -wrong about such a central event in the Bible, then how do you know he's not also wrong about any of the other statements he made?

Here is a very serious question for you to consider...

If you consider yourself more informed and more knowledgeable than Jesus Christ about the Bible and history, would you find it hard to be his follower?