808: Is Adam a Historical Figure? Dr. Tremper Longman
Theology in the Raw
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The Origins of Adam and Eve
One view is that God endowed a group to be his image bears. So you would say, Genesis or Adam and Eve then aren't like composite representative figures, but rather they were selected out of a group of homo sapiens to be. There's some variability as to when that might have happened. Some people think it was like 12,000 years ago. Um, other people think 30,000 years old to get into the weeds. I will once again promote my book,. confronting old Testament controversies, pressing questions about evolution, sexuality, history and violence.
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