"Well, Nightdriver; you've not responded to any requests for chapter and verse of what you claim..."
Sorry, Elsie, I didn't know you had requested.
You are right, I didn't, but all THESE guys did...
Really? Could you give the chapter and verse on that one?
And that would be?
27 posted on 01/08/2006 6:06:11 PM CST by Wicket
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Now I'm curious. It would be most helpful if you would provide a chapter/verse reference as a means for those of us less skilled in Biblical research to verify your assertion...
Could you please expound scripturally on "even though he became extinct and left no progeny,"?
64 posted on 01/09/2006 6:15:38 AM CST by Just mythoughts
Gen 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
111 posted on 01/10/2006 10:11:34 AM CST by bondserv
You've obviously never seen a Bible, let alone read one.
I see your issue of ONE MAN, and I will have to spend some time digesting it.
The issue that I noticed was a blurb in one of the prophets.
Please read it and tell me what you think.
Look at Jeremiah, chapter 4, starting at about verse 23:
"I beheld the Earth, and, lo, it was without form and void…"
So the question is, of course, just when in time was the prophet looking? It couldn't have been in his present time, because the Earth was not "without form and void" as he looked out over it. Also it couldn't have been at any time from Adam until his present time, because nothing like that happened in the record. It had to have been contemporary with the space between Gen. 1:1 and Gen. 1.2. That's the only time, that we know of, when the Earth was in that condition. Reading on:
v. 25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man….." There evidently had been, but he was now gone.
v. 26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, AND BY HIS FIERCE ANGER.
Nowhere from Adam to Jeremiah's time did the Lord come down and personally wipe out a population and his cities. Reading on:
v.27 For thus hath the Lord said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
So the prophet could not have been looking into the future, because in the future the Lord DOES make a full end as is written in Isaiah 34:4, 2 Peter 3:10, Revelation 21:1, and others.
A bit more modern translation says...
23. I looked at the earth, and it was formless and empty; and at the heavens, and their light was gone.
24. I looked at the mountains, and they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.
25. I looked, and there were no people; every bird in the sky had flown away.
26. I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert; all its towns lay in ruins before the LORD, before his fierce anger.
27. This is what the LORD says: "The whole land will be ruined, though I will not destroy it completely.
So it appears it will be a FUTURE time, just like the other verses you point out.
So, the Christian does not have to be threatened in his Biblical belief when the Leakys dig a skull out of the Olduvai (sp?) valley and say it is so many thousands or millions of years old. The Bible alludes to the fact that men were walking the earth long before Adam. Maybe even several many populations, in fact. They are gone, now, and they did not evolve into us, but we do know Who created them.
I could be all wet, but this is what the Bible says.
I still see no allusion to what you say is in the Bible.