QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
QUESTION: “WAS ADAM A REAL MAN?
IS HE AN
HISTORICAL FIGURE?”
ANSWER:
“ABSOLUTELY!”
That Adam
is an
historical character cannot be denied … based on the evidence of the
following
facts:
1. ADAM ACTS,
SPEAKS AND LIVES AS AN INDIVIDUAL IN GENESIS CHAPTERS 2-4
This
account makes
it impossible to say that he is a generic man … that is, a type or a
figure.
2. ADAM’S AGE
IS GIVEN AT THE BIRTH OF SETH – 130 YEARS, AND HIS DEATH
AT 930 YEARS (GENESIS 5:5)
This is
the
book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in
the
likeness of God made he him; Male and female created he them; and
blessed them,
and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. And Adam
lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own
likeness,
after his image; and called his name Seth: And the days of Adam
after he had
begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and
daughters:
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years:
and he
died. (Genesis 5:1-5)
3. ADAM
APPEARS IN THE GENERATION OF CHRIST IN LUKE 3:38
Which was
the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of
Adam,
which was the son of God. (Luke 3:38)
As Christ
was an historical figure, a man of flesh and blood, along with all the
others mentioned
in the account, then Adam is also a man of the flesh by association … a
real
line of flesh and blood people!
4. ADAM IS
SPOKEN OF AS “ONE MAN’ WHO SINNED IN ROMANS 5:12
Wherefore,
as by one man (Adam) sin
entered into the world,
and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have
sinned: (Romans
5:12)
5. AS MOSES
WAS AN HISTORICAL CHARACTER, SO ADAM IS BY ASSOCIATION
Nevertheless
death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not
sinned
after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him
that was
to come. (Romans 5:14)
As Moses
was
an historical character, as he lived and died physically, then Adam,
lived and
died as a physical man as well … a real line of flesh and blood
people!
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Harley
Hitchcock
www.AustralianBibleMinistries.com
