The dominant view of Adam in the Christian church today is that his role in scripture is to be the sole father of the human race- that he is the genetic progenitor of mankind. The Christ-centered model makes the case from scripture that his true role is to be the progenitor of the line of Messiah, not all of mankind. Adam is a figure or pattern of Christ (Rom. 5:14) not the father of mankind. There were already other humans around when Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden.
This video takes the most cited scripture used to support the idea that Adam was the sole progenitor of humanity and measures it up against one of the many scriptures supporting the idea that there were already other humans outside the garden. TRANSCRIPT OF VIDEO FOLLOWS...
Hello friends my name is Mark Moore I'm
the author of the book early Genesis the
revealed cosmology it's available on
Amazon and other places. I believe
there's a link to it in the description
of this video down below and the e
version is of no charge if you have
access to a Kindle Unlimited account.
I want to put scripture against Scripture -
Was Adam the sole progenitor of the
human race? Everybody thinks 'oh yeah
sure that that's who the Bible says Adam
is'- but does it?
What is the one scripture
that you would most think of to confirm
the idea that Adam is the sole father of
the whole human race? Not just the line of
Messiah but the whole human race? Put
that up against one of the scriptures
which indicate that Adam wasn't the
father of the whole human race, that God
made a host of people here right from
the beginning and that's what I'd like to
do today. I'd like to put those two
scriptures up against each other
break them down and see where we get the
most accurate picture and I want to
start with the scripture the go-to
scripture for the "Adam as Father" view.
This video takes the most cited scripture used to support the idea that Adam was the sole progenitor of humanity and measures it up against one of the many scriptures supporting the idea that there were already other humans outside the garden. TRANSCRIPT OF VIDEO FOLLOWS...
Hello friends my name is Mark Moore I'm
the author of the book early Genesis the
revealed cosmology it's available on
Amazon and other places. I believe
there's a link to it in the description
of this video down below and the e
version is of no charge if you have
access to a Kindle Unlimited account.
I want to put scripture against Scripture -
Was Adam the sole progenitor of the
human race? Everybody thinks 'oh yeah
sure that that's who the Bible says Adam
is'- but does it?
What is the one scripture
that you would most think of to confirm
the idea that Adam is the sole father of
the whole human race? Not just the line of
Messiah but the whole human race? Put
that up against one of the scriptures
which indicate that Adam wasn't the
father of the whole human race, that God
made a host of people here right from
the beginning and that's what I'd like to
do today. I'd like to put those two
scriptures up against each other
break them down and see where we get the
most accurate picture and I want to
start with the scripture the go-to
scripture for the "Adam as Father" view.
If you went to most people
that were familiar with the Bible and
say show me the scripture that says Adam
is the sole progenitor of all mankind
most people would point you to acts
17:26 so let's take a look at acts 17:26
and see what it says and then we're
going to look at Genesis 2:1 and see
what it says and break these two verses
down.
that were familiar with the Bible and
say show me the scripture that says Adam
is the sole progenitor of all mankind
most people would point you to acts
17:26 so let's take a look at acts 17:26
and see what it says and then we're
going to look at Genesis 2:1 and see
what it says and break these two verses
down.
Acts 17:26: what it says depends on what
version you're reading from if you're
reading from the NIV it says from one
man he made all the nations of the earth
in which case Adam was the sole
progenitor of the human race but the
King James Version says hath made of one
blood all nations of men a different
word and the American Standard says
he made of one every nation of men.
version you're reading from if you're
reading from the NIV it says from one
man he made all the nations of the earth
in which case Adam was the sole
progenitor of the human race but the
King James Version says hath made of one
blood all nations of men a different
word and the American Standard says
he made of one every nation of men.
The American Standard
translation leaves it open so that's a
good hint that we need to go back in the
Greek and when we go back to the Greek
what do we find out? The American
Standard is most
correct - He made of one every nation of
men it does not say one man it just says
'of one'. Interesting isn't it? When you go
to the Greek the case is not nearly as
clear-cut as you may have been led to
believe. There's a blank there
and the translator has to fill in the
blank when with their own biases.
translation leaves it open so that's a
good hint that we need to go back in the
Greek and when we go back to the Greek
what do we find out? The American
Standard is most
correct - He made of one every nation of
men it does not say one man it just says
'of one'. Interesting isn't it? When you go
to the Greek the case is not nearly as
clear-cut as you may have been led to
believe. There's a blank there
and the translator has to fill in the
blank when with their own biases.
It could be of 'one man
God made every nation on earth' in which
case acts 17:26 is the scriptural proof
you need to show that Adam was the
father of a whole human race, but the
Greek doesn't say 'one man' nor does the
Greek say 'one blood' as the King James
translated it. The most accurate or
closer to the Greek would be the
American Standard Version where it just
says 'of one God made every nation' and
that word for nation is ethnos which is
where we get our word ethnicity so there
is a blank there and you fill in the
blank.
God made every nation on earth' in which
case acts 17:26 is the scriptural proof
you need to show that Adam was the
father of a whole human race, but the
Greek doesn't say 'one man' nor does the
Greek say 'one blood' as the King James
translated it. The most accurate or
closer to the Greek would be the
American Standard Version where it just
says 'of one God made every nation' and
that word for nation is ethnos which is
where we get our word ethnicity so there
is a blank there and you fill in the
blank.
If you fill it in with one
ethnos andGod made every ethnos you keep
the brotherhood of man, you keep the idea
that God created all humans, but you
don't keep the idea that Adam was the
sole progenitor of the human race. That
just doesn't say that in the Greek . In
fact if you look at another verse where
it says one man and ethnos and uses the same
three words and you see how the Greek does it
you'll see the Greek is different. When
it wants to say one man it says one man
one anthropous.
ethnos andGod made every ethnos you keep
the brotherhood of man, you keep the idea
that God created all humans, but you
don't keep the idea that Adam was the
sole progenitor of the human race. That
just doesn't say that in the Greek . In
fact if you look at another verse where
it says one man and ethnos and uses the same
three words and you see how the Greek does it
you'll see the Greek is different. When
it wants to say one man it says one man
one anthropous.
So in the Greek of them it says 'of one
he made every ethnos' from which we get
our word ethnicity on earth the man or
the blood or whatever you build in the
blank is simply the translator putting
something in the blank. It's not what the
text said. It could be saying of one
ethnos God made every ethnos on earth. In
other words the brotherhood of man is
kept, God as the creator of all mankind,
those ideas are kept but it's really not
saying anything about Adam being the
sole progenitor of the human race it's
just not in the real text. It's something
that's been inserted by some translators
but not others- a terrible thing to base
a doctrine on what one translator has
decided to put in a blank.
Compare this to the Greek in John 11:50. When the
text wants to say one man in relation to
the word ethnos it says one man or one
anthropos. John 11:50 has the same three
terms in it a very similar
structure but there it says one
anthropos and ethnos. In acts 17:26 it
does not say anthropos in that place.
That is a look at the main verse of
scripture that can show that Adam was
the sole progenitor of the human race
and really you see that it doesn't
say that. Now what about the
other side of the equation what verse
shows that Adam was not the sole
progenitor of the human race, that God
made many people and Adam was just made
to bring line of Messiah?
Well there are
a lot of them- there are too many to
share in this video most of them are in
the book not not even all of them there
but the one I want to focus on today is
Genesis 2:1 I'm just gonna use one of
the many verses I could use and then
show one verse near it to show that what
I'm the context that I'm saying it sin
is the correct context so let's take a
look ......(rest in video)
a lot of them- there are too many to
share in this video most of them are in
the book not not even all of them there
but the one I want to focus on today is
Genesis 2:1 I'm just gonna use one of
the many verses I could use and then
show one verse near it to show that what
I'm the context that I'm saying it sin
is the correct context so let's take a
look ......(rest in video)
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Interlinear translation showing the Greek in Acts 17:26
Interlinear translation showing the Hebrew in Genesis 2:1
Interlinear translation showing the Hebrew in Genesis 2:1
What readers say about "Early Genesis, the Revealed Cosmology"
ReplyDelete"Very well written book. The presentation style is very readable and I would suggest the content is inspired by God. I found it is such a good read about the early relationship between
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