It is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” 1 Corinthians 15:45
The Bible declares that Adam was the first man:
Jesus, the son of Joseph … the son of Enosh, The son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God. (Luke 3:23-38)
It is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam (Jesus Christ) became a life-giving spirit. (1 Corinthians 15:45)
The Lord God formed man (Adam) of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
(Genesis 2:7)
The Scriptures are very clear that Adam was “the first man.” However, with the advent of modern geology in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s, Christian authors, educators and commentators created a pre-Adamic race of people in an attempt to accommodate the millions and billions of years advocated by the new geology. R. A. Torrey, second president of Moody Bible Institute stated, “All the verses after the first (verse of Genesis 1:1) seem rather to refer to a refitting of the world that had been created and had afterward been plunged into chaos by the sin of some pre- Adamic race, to be the abode of the present race that inhabits it, the Adamic race.” Finis Dake, author of the Dake Annotated Reference Bible wrote, “When men finally agree on the age of the earth, then place the many years (over the historical 6,000) between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, there will be no conflict between the Book of Genesis and science.”
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