Are there christians who do not believe the account of Adam and Eve or Noah?

Question

10 points only go to christian answers. Athiests you are only agreeing amongst yourselves what you aready think if you enter an answer so please let this be a christian response.

Answer 1

Jesus believed in Noah as he spoke of him.

Matthew 24:37 "For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be."

If Jesus himself backs up Noah then I need ask for no better proof.

Adam existed because he was the one that brought sin and imperfect into the world that Jesus Christ himself came to the earth to reedem mankind from inherited sin brought on through Adam and Eve's decendants (me and you).

Romans 5:12 "That is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men because they had all sinned."

1 Corinthians 15:45 "It is even so written: “The first man Adam became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit."

Last Adam is Jesus Christ - The last (2nd only) perfect man in human history to live on the earth since Adam sinned and lost his perfection.

Jehovah Witnesses have been teaching this undeniable biblical facts without doubt with great biblical figures who back up the early events and people of the bible. These amongst many other accounts fit well into biblical picture of human history and God's purpose for mankind.

Answer 2

I am a Christian in that I believe Jesus was the best and most recent teacher of what man can and should be. I also believe that the Old Testament stories were written to explain the origins of mankind. They knew a human came from a man and woman, so logic would say if you followed it back there had to be an original man and woman, Adam and Eve. I don't give a lot of credence to many of the stories since most were written by people that believed the earth was flat. They were interpreted by a male dominated clergy so who's to say that God didn't create Eve first? Makes more sense that a man would come from a woman than the other way around doesn't it?

Answer 3

there are christians who believe in the gap theory. that is, the idea that God di in fact creat the universe, but it took several million or billion years to do so, and not seven days. So it's like they are trying to compromise. Which is totally hypocritcal. Why would you say you believe God, but not believe what is written in the bible? it deons't make any sense. if you're gonna believe something, BELIEVE IT! one way or the other.
second, the gap theory does not work. The bible says that God created the plants before the insects, and even the sun! How could they survive? The theory is false, and is just an excuse to try make everyone happy.

Answer 4

Im almost more curious about how one would distinguish between a "christian" and "atheist" response than I am about your actual question itself!

But in regards to that question, My family is all devout christians. My grandmother is well known for her rosary group in the area... and somehow, I cant help but question the factual inaccuracies of those events in particular.

Aside from the issue of inbreeding that would obviously result if those accounts were true, there is a number of other things. Such as, why would God plant the apple tree there if he did not want it to be eaten? There was literally no other purpose to that plant being there other than a tool to eject the humans from eden.

Think about it. Thats like a parent putting an uncapped bottle of bleach into a child's playpen and telling him/her not to go near it.

Its not as if satan made the tree when he came as the snake either. It was there from the start, and God knew exactly what it was, why they shouldnt eat of its fruit, and what would happen if they did. So, if he truly loved man, wanted him to be happy etc. there is no logical reason for this tree to have been there at all.

Also. Unless eden is a metaphor for the earth as a whole, whats the point of fencing in this paradise? Who was he keeping out? If hell is not of this earth, and all the animals are under the dominion of adam and eve, what was there to be protected against, or kept out?

Whatever your outlook on this account, I think its important to note that GOD himself put the Tree of Knowledge in Eden. Not Satan. God knew that it was only a matter of time... and that, I would suggest, says something about God himself.

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As for the story of Noah, its been proven that (assuming it could be constructed) the Ark would have had proper ship behavior. It would have even passed Coast Guard expectations for flotation! I do, however, question the story on multiple accounts.

The first is, and theres no getting arouond this topic for me, that god MURDERED every other human and animal on the face of the planet that was no on the Ark. There is no other way to say this. He intentionally drowned them, and in todays terms, would have been "premeditated". He told Noah what would happen beforehand.

I dont think thats consistent with the message that the Bible tries to push out about God, being very forgiving, understanding, and above all, loving. Why didn't he send Jesus then to pay for their sins and teach them the right way to do things? There is no explaination... just that the men were wicked and needed to be punished.

Also, in a more logistical sense, gathering two of every animal on earth is impossible not only in terms of the time limit he had, but also as far as habitability goes.

Having said that, Id also like to segue to creationism for a moment. If it is indeed true that God created all the animals out of sheer will, Noah's Ark has no purpose. It is redundant. According to Creationism and the rest of the bible, God could have simple just willed for the creatures to be after the floodwaters had ebbed away. The sheer fact that god commanded him to maintain these creatures (and thus their genetics) is proof in the bible that evolution is real. Otherwise he would have told them to bring a herd of cattle and sheep for food along the 40 days!

I would like to believe in the powerful tales in the bible such as this, but even when they are examined in the lens of the bible itself, these accounts do not make any sense.

If you think you can honestly, and with proof, answer any of these arguments, let me know. mgaudet86 (at) yahoo.

Answer 5

I do not believe in the literal sense of either story.

I do not believe that GOD created Adam and Eve their names are actually plays on the aramaic words for earth (as in dirt) and life, respectively.

Noah also would have had to have had (LOL) a huge boat to carry all the animals... although there was obviously some sort of large flood, the flood tale exists in every culture...

Answer 6

First, with the aid of fact if those memories are no longer actually authentic, Jesus had no rationalization for coming. on the situation of bystander sufferers interior the flood: Sin has consequences. individuals--your man or woman toddlers and grandchildren--will experience the implications of your undesirable judgements. undergo in recommendations this with each decision you're making: Generations will gain what you sow. on the situation of no longer having the ability to understand the thought of a lie: Adam and Eve DID understand the thought of authority. devil got here to them as an animal; a creature over which that they had authority. and that they knew God had authority over them. The hierarchy interior the backyard went God, guy, beast. Adam and Eve enable the snake act with authority over them, telling them to consume the fruit, and that they then stepped out from under God's authority and took concerns into their very own arms. They knew what they have been doing with out information the completed implications of their determination, that's why God informed them to stay removed from that tree. They knew they have been disobeying, yet they did no longer be responsive to what they have been getting themselves into via doing so. If we did be responsive to what we ought to get ourselves into, we would never disobey. yet our insurrection stems from doubting those in authority over us, believing all of us be responsive to extra clever than they do.

Answer 7

When I read the question, I had to think about what I would say as I am answering it in a backwards way. Imagine that... hahaha *IF* you (*you* meaning anyone reading the question etc)are Christian, you are to believe the whole BIBLE and not take or add to it, as God says. Yes, I believe that accounts of each verse, story etc in the Bible. I am curious as to what other Christian's will say, for surely if they are not just benchwarmer's, they believe. <><

Revelation 22:18-9 states:

"For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and [from] the things which are written in this book."

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Deuteronomy 4:2:

"Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish [ought] from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you."

Answer 8

i don't think true christians would not believe just a portion of the Bible. God says that he will punish anyone who tries to change the Bible's account. Everything in it is true. If someone disagrees with something his Maker says, how can they have a true relationship???

Answer 9

Nope. True Christians believe God's Word. Anyone calling themselves Christians who say they don't believe these accounts are deceived. Synonym: unbelievers.

Answer 10

Those are Jewish beliefs from the Torah.
So if a Christian does not believe that the religion is a offshoot sect of Judaism then they most likely will not believe those accounts.and call them fables of ignorant people.