Post by Michael J Loomis on Jul 6, 2009 20:36:25 GMT -5
In our recent covenant creation conversations here as well as some over at CARM I was promoting the idea that Adam was the "First Man" yet not the first homo sapien on the planet. I guess I was in some sense trying to flesh out the idea that Adam was the, "First Covenant Adam" in contrast to Jesus having been the "Last Covenant Adam."
1 Cor. 15:45 "And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit."
Now...As I've been doing some research for an article that I'm writing I came across a passage that might lend some credibility to this idea.
2 Peter 2:4-5(NKJV) "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment, and spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly."
This passage CLEARLY states that Noah was the "EIGHTH PERSON." Yet we know that he wasn't literally the 8th person.
So what's the deal? Cause he as far as Biblical generations go he was the tenth generation from Adam.
Any thoughts?
Mike
1 Cor. 15:45 "And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit."
Now...As I've been doing some research for an article that I'm writing I came across a passage that might lend some credibility to this idea.
2 Peter 2:4-5(NKJV) "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment, and spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly."
This passage CLEARLY states that Noah was the "EIGHTH PERSON." Yet we know that he wasn't literally the 8th person.
So what's the deal? Cause he as far as Biblical generations go he was the tenth generation from Adam.
Any thoughts?
Mike
