Pre-Adamic Races - Were Adam and Eve the First Humans?

[danielclooney]

I hope when we get to heaven, we'll learn all this or it will be automatically part of our intellect with our new glorified bodies.

[jdub]

Centuries upon centuries have gone by in our seemingly endless quest to find the ark of the covenant....lo and behold it is sitting right behind Dr. Heiser! You are a trickster sir. Well played.

[rlmay]

Since this was a semitic story, maybe it was just an explanation of their origin since they considered themselves to be God’s chosen people and they didn’t feel the need to explain the origin of anyone not associated with their people…just a thought

[angiew]

I've wondered about this for a while too, and I've come to the exact same conclusion; which is basically, we just don't know. The Bible doesn't say there were not other humans, but it doesn't say there were, either. In that case, it's one of those questions I'm storing up for God once I get to Heaven. I'd imagine He's going to have an assembly once we're all there for a question and answer session, because we all have a ton of questions. Lol Either that, or we'll already have all of the knowledge we lacked as soon as we receive our heavenly, glorified bodies. Not sure just yet, but we'll find out soon!

[HazerGore]

I really love how you make me think critically about these issues. Most of us (myself included) often want a simple "yes" or "no" answer to questions like these, but it shows your intellectual honesty when you say the text is ambiguous and allows the possibility for other humans prior (or concurrent) to Adam and Eve, but does not explicitly teach it. We as Christians need to acknowledge these sorts of ambiguities and not force our Bible to say things it never intended to say; doing so leads to fruitless arguments and divisions and dilutes the gospel. Or in other words, we need to know what we know, and know what we do not know.

[pixiedust]

I heard this from a teaching once: the Bible follows the lineage of Jesus so it tells the stories of those who are of the line of promise. There are many things that are told because the sole purpose is to follow the line of promise. Cane and Abel area recorded because it was the first murder. That doesn’t mean that cane and able where the only children of Adam and Eve. Throughout the Bible you will see how people lived a very long time. Then if you noticed there are many other people that are not spoken of but then comes Seth of which the line of promise continue. From that point forward we follow his line and then who ever is appointed from which that line of promise is to flow from. Eventually we hear of many nations but have only followed the lives of the patriarchs followed by the formation of the Israelites, Gods chosen people.

Anyhow I’m no scholar. That is just the was I understand from this one teacher.

[AGreaterAmerica]

1. If there were any other lineage other than that of Adam, then Jesus would NOT have had to die for ALL mankind... which He DID.
2. Hundreds of years could have passed BEFORE Cain killed Abel. That would have allowed for multitudes of families to exist BEFORE the murder. Thus, Cain's concern about being killed by others... Just a thought.

[crashcorriganfpv]

Excellent! This is a question that I’ve had bouncing around inside my brain for quite some time.
My faith sustains me so I don’t NEED answers all the time but when I stumble upon them it’s incredibly affirming. I suppose technically this isn’t even an answer but rather a door or a window and perhaps that’s even more satisfying.
I wonder in ancient times how people viewed this or what they believed and why? Were there earlier writings which explained things so that this wasn’t even a question?

But I also believe that the current ambiguity that modern followers of Christ encounter when reading and dealing with questions or topics like this serves a great purpose in helping to separate the wheat from the tare as faith is Christ is pivotal.

[marksufc]

Genesis 1-26 let us make man in our image = pre adamic man. Genesis 2-7 adam was created = adamic man. Clearly 2 seperate people

[RomeoGD]

Simple, God created Black Man, and darwin created white man 🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️
😂😂🤣

[CharlesHarrison-tl]

The way i read it is on the sixth day God created humans. He blessed them and told them to replenish the eath . He made hunters out of some, fishers out of some, husbandry, and so on . Then what ? He" rested "on the seventh day . I know that the bible doesn't mention an eighth day, but clearly, Adam and the garden were a separate creation ( Eth-ha-adam) hebrew for
" The man " check it out . Dont take my word for it . "The man " ( Adam) was created after God rested . God had not made the farmer yet, and he did so after the seventh day. Adam, the garden, farm animals to help in the garden .
On the sixth day after God had made man, scripture says that he looked, and it was ' very good ' different from the other days . The word rib means curve. It is the helix curve of the DNA that we know today .Man has the same amount of ribs as he's always had . Two separate creations as I read it . Adam and Eve were created for one purpose and separate from the others . From these two, this one family, the Christ child, would come through .It's their bloodline.
Check out the genealogies, I think it's in the book of Luke, Mary's genealogy goes all the way back to Mother Eve herself . She is called the mother of all living because through this one from womb to womb the christ child will come . The bloodline had to be pure . That's how i read it anyway .. Im no biblical scholar, but I have studied this subject very deeply

[CorgisRClever]

Dr. Michael H was such a great teacher!

[fumble_brewski]

1 Cor. 15:45, “…the first man Adam became a living being.” As to whatever (or whoever) existed on the earth BEFORE the creation of Adam, the Bible is silent. Adam is explicitly described as the first human. Therefore, let us not speculate and go beyond what is written.

[annemac]

Who "first" brought death to man? ? it was Adam and Eve and because of their fall, so if people lived before Adam and Eve, and died does not fit in...end of story..**.Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned. (Romans **5:12**)**

[debo]

Although I hear and understand what's been said it really sounds like others were already here to me?

[ryanehlis]

Cain was not Adams offspring, Cain was serpent seed.

[dolmanf]

Genesis 1.26. God created people. Adam and Eve came along

[barbaradouglas]

No read carefully on the sixth day God created the races .Adam and eve came later.

[trailwomanrc]

Eden could still exist after Adam and Eve get the boot. Maybe God continues to make more humans who inevitable ate of the tree of knowledge.

[jesudaniel]

Believe in JESUS ....that is the main point