| SpokenTruth said: Certainly Genesis is an allegory and I would hope most people understand that (creationists and Young Earthers apply it literally). However, you are talkign about a process that simply couldn't have much deviation from that told by the Bible or via scientific theories. Changing the order of things in the process would not have made any sense from any viewpoint. You can't print the pages of a newspaper before the articles are witten. An order to the process isn't enough to suggest anything more than logic. Searching for parallels in the processes when both processes follow a logical order means very little. You can have 2 very different concepts about 2 very different products and still have orders in the process that are the same but it doesn't mean you have the same product. I am intrigued by the pre-Adam/Eve humans though. I thought 1 Corinthians 15:45 pretty much stated Adam was the first living being on Earth. |
"Changing the order".... it´s not about changing any other, my friend. It´s about understand that both the scientific theory and the story are telling basically the same thing. Remember when I said that it´s necessary to put a deep thought on how and on which context the Bible was written? The Bible is not perfect but the evolutionary theory isn´t also. Both have a lot on unanswered questions, some of them that probably will never find an answer, but for different reasons.
As for Adam and Even, they were the first human beings to have conscience of God (or, we could say they were the first ones to have a "soul", figuratively speaking), but they were not the actual first humans created by God. That´s the reason why the creation of mankind is told twice in the Genesis and why Caim found his wife when he left his family. But that´s only understandable if you read the Bible in its original languages, where sometimes words have a different meaning in their cultural context at the time they we written. I don´t remember now what was the exact word that Paul used in that specific verse, but I now that the New Testament has several different words for "human being" "love" "faith" and other terms.
