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To: narby
And the Bible specifically says there were no deaths of any creature prior to this?

The bible mentions none. The first mention of death, I believe, Genesis 2:17 "...but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat it you shall surely die."

And the result of man's fall is the cursing of all creation (Genesis 3:14ff)

The first recorded physical death is the slaying of Abel by Cain which is a generation after the fall.

Adam's sin is the cause of death. (1 Corinthians 15:21-22) "For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive."

And Genesis doesn't give any detail about what came between, and how long the time period was from the "dust" to the "man".

Oh yes it does. Man was created on the 6th day.

The first "man", yet his parents were not human, by God's standards, as they did not have a soul. That could certainly have been only a few millenia ago.

Adam had no parents. God made him from the dust in less than a 24hr period (actually He made the beasts of the Earth earlier that day).

74 posted on 06/07/2005 4:23:45 PM PDT by nonsporting
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To: nonsporting
Adam had no parents. God made him from the dust in less than a 24hr period

Who is your creator?

If you answer "God", then what are your parents?

God created Adam the same way He created you, through his parents. I assume that Adam's parents had no soul. But who knows what Genesis means exactly.

I'm sure you will say that Adam was a "special creation". Great. Show me where Genesis says that God created Adam differently from where Adam's children's wives came from. Oh, Genesis left that out? Well, it left out lots of stuff. You can't put too much detail in just a few hundred words. The gaps in Genesis are big enough to drive evolution, geology, paleontology, astronomy, astrophysics, and any number of scientific fields through in their Mack Trucks. Those are the fields that you would have to ignore in order to believe in a literal 6 day creation.

I'm sure you'll have answers, but save it.

My faith in God is't threatened by evolution. It's too bad your faith is so weak.

75 posted on 06/07/2005 6:19:49 PM PDT by narby (Ignorance is God’s gift to Kansas.)
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