Adam and Eve.

[stephen]

ADAM AND EVE: CLARIFYING WHAT IS AT STAKE


Recent evangelical discussion concerning Adam and Eve has served at least one good purpose -- it has helped to clarify what is theologically at stake in the debate. The recent report by National Public Radio alerted the larger secular culture to the debate, but the debate is hardly new.

What is new, however, is the candid admission on the part of some that the denial of a historical Adam requires a new understanding of the Bible's basic story -- and thus of the Gospel as well.

The denial of a historical Adam means not only the rejection of a clear biblical teaching but also the denial of the biblical doctrine of the Fall, leading to a very different way of telling the story of the Bible and the meaning of the Gospel.

By the way, those who try to deny that Genesis requires the affirmation of a historic Adam as a real and singular human individual (arguing, for example, that the Hebrew word translated "Adam" means only "the man") must face the fact that the Genesis narrative clearly presents Adam as a singular individual who acts, speaks, marries, reproduces and is listed even in the genealogy of Jesus. Hebrew vocabulary offers no escape hatch from historicity.



(Mohler, "ADAM & EVE: Clarifying what is at stake," Baptist Press, 9/14/11).

 

[B-A-C]

Interesting...
Were Adam and Eve real people.. or just an abstract of society at the time? Consider this...

Rom 5:12 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--
5:13 for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.
5:15 But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
5:16 The gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one transgression resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting in justification.
5:17 For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
5:18 So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.
5:19 For as through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous.

So if sin came to the world through "an abstract of society" instead of "one man" (Adam)
Are we saved by an abstract of society instead of one man? (Jesus).