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To: Olog-hai; exDemMom

You are making a religious argument based on Christianity, correct? From the Bible we can read that “God formed Adam from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.”

Pick yer poison: http://biblehub.com/genesis/2-7.htm

Note bene that “formed” means like an artisan forming something chaotic into something orderly/beautiful (in this particular case in the “image and likeness of God” in other words in an outline of God to be filled in later)

“Dust” is an unused word meaning earth or earth materials. Both “Adam” and “man” are the same word in Hebrew.

There is order and logic in the story: “God formed Adam from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.”

1. Adam/man is formed from preexisting earth materials

2. God breaths life (his soul?) into him.

3. Only then does Adam/man become a living being (soul).

Demonstrably, no?

Now if you want a scientific explanation I adjure to exDemmom. She’s already laid out what science knows previously, no? She seems very patient.


69 posted on 03/24/2014 12:26:28 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 1010RD

No.

Adam was Adam, and only he and his wife were formed in that manner. There was also no risk of their physical bodies being destroyed, whether by the animals formed before them or by the “serpent of old”.

It’s written that certain of the prophets, including Jesus and John the Baptist, had the Holy Spirit from the womb. Are you really going to try to split hairs as to when that spirit was in their physical form? Can you stand before God and think you can justify that at any certain time, the zygote or blastocyst forms of Jesus and John the Baptist could be aborted and there would be no guilt before Him? How much else any other conceived member of mankind?


79 posted on 03/24/2014 12:40:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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