How do Christians exculpate the whole Adam and Eve thing with the archaeological finds from early Man. I know this has been asked before, However I just want a Christian to answer me so that I can try and understand where they are coming from, it seems to be a question that gets avoided
2007-04-23 21:30:02 · 10 answers · asked by mia 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Let's think the stories of our religions are not the real events. Some of them may be occurred in the past. But most of them are written in the books just to make people think more. They don't need to be real. Most important part with this stories is, to make people think and learn about certain conditions.
2007-04-24 11:14:15 · answer #1 · answered by PaleoBerkay 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. Genetics links us to a common ancestor.
2. Adam and Eve would have been genetically superior and there children could interbreed since there would have been no mutations.
3. Relative small human population 6000 years ago would mean there was a relatively small human population we originates in the Middle East where the Bible says it did.
4. Historically we only go back no more then 4000 BC.
5. When talking archeology you need to be specific because most of the "monkey" men were proven to be hoaxes. IE. Neanderthal proved to be humans-Cro-Magnon were people with larger skulls then modern man. Peking, Java, Piltdown, Nebraska, are all hoaxes and have been disproved. So all the Hominid evolution charts that we're indoctrinated with from childhood are bogus. You can still go to the Smithsonian's Natural History museum and find these there with the same indoctrinating spiel.
6. We haven't even touch on the dubious dating methods and the 7 assumptions that must always be assumed in the dating or the strata dating.
8. So lets discuss the relics because they will all go back to Middle Eastern history right where the Bible says it all began. Eden, Babylon, Assyria, Edom, Sumeria, Egypt, Israel, hold all the ancient relics so what relics are you talking about. Some stick a guy calls a weapon and says its 70,000 years old.
2007-04-24 05:36:44 · answer #2 · answered by Who's got my back? 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm not sure if I qualify as a Christian, but I was educated as one.
The way modern Christians deal with this is by acknowledging that the Bible is figurative, not hard fact. It was supposed to be more-or-less understood by people without today's knowledge, just with their knowledge of their present. The purpose of the Adam and Eve story is to say that God created humans(which doesn't mean it wasn't done gradually though all the evolutionary processes) (the 7 days is equally figurative - if God spans the cosmos, why should He measure time in our days...) and gave them the capacity to act and think for themselves. And then it says that people do not always make the best of choices and that the core of their being- the soul - is at stake. That is the modern answer to the question.
There are still however, fundamentalists, who continue to take the scriptures literally. This I can only comment upon that contrary to Kings 7:23 pi is not equal to 3.
2007-04-24 04:53:34 · answer #3 · answered by misiekram 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
From my studies, the bible was (old test) was a history of the jewish people) and that adam stood for men, eve stands for woman. Also, i think 7 days here is not the same as 7 days in heaven, and that god was just explaining in easy terms. Also, It does not say that god never made anyone else. Or that cavemen where not People or could even be listed in animals or such. I think evolution would have been to complicated for the people to understand so they wrote they way they thought. That doesn't mean God didn't do it, it just may not have been done the way the people back then imagined. ( after all, look at our understanding of cancer 40 years ago, and now.) Maybe it is our thoughts that mess us up not God. I believe in both God and evolution. I think that it is silly to assume that either one is completely the truth. I think God gave us common sense for a reason.
2007-04-24 04:46:30 · answer #4 · answered by waterlily 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ummm...I'm a christian, but I know that The story of adem and eve is just a story. It has little or no basis in fact.
2007-04-24 05:04:02 · answer #5 · answered by Skippy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the reasonable ones take the creation account as figurative. The literal interpreters rail and rant, as always.
2007-04-24 04:58:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Humankind long thought the Earth was flat, surely Jesus would have known it was round. Why didn't he tell everyone? It would have saved a lot of confusion in the long run.
2007-04-24 04:37:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, Mia, if we are wrong and you are right, what difference will that make? Will tomorrow be a better day if all agree on events from thousands of years ago? WHO CARES?
2007-04-24 04:56:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Obviously they can't. Therefore you get answers like Gastounet's. I wonder if he and other like him realize how close "God works in mysterious ways" comes to the true definition of agnosticism.
2007-04-24 04:38:45 · answer #9 · answered by Alice K 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Archaeologists are scientists therefore they are not to be trusted.
Check your Bible, forget about the rest.
God did it, it's the holy spirit at work, god moves in mysterious ways. That should cover it.
2007-04-24 04:34:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 6⤋