Were Adam and Eve the first two people created in the beginning of time?

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we see verse - - :13 FROM HENCEFORTH EXPECTING UNTIL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE HIS FOOTSTOOL.
and
Mar 12:36 Sit ON my right hand, UNTIL I make thy enemies thy footstool.
Luk 20:42 Sit thou ON my right hand, - UNTIL I make thine enemies thy footstool.
Act 2:34 Sit thou ON my right hand, UNTIL I make thy foes thy footstool.
Heb 1:13 Sit ON my right hand, UNTIL I make thine enemies thy footstool?

the translators later translating the Protestant K.J.V. correctly fix and repair this Catholic contradiction by moving and shuffling the punctuation to move the - " comma > - NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE


Protestant K.J.V. - - After he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever ,,,,, - sat down ON the right hand of God;
vs the Catholic
C
atholic Douay Rheims and the Latin Vulgate - - Offering one sacrifice for sins,,,,, - for ever sitteth ON the right hand of God,



My humble question about the Trinity is about the “ PRE EXISTENCE ” of Jesus as human, the physical existence of Jesus in bodily form - as a human being / a man, Son of God - as CO - Equal, CO - Eternal, CO - Omnipresent - human body, - man, - Son of man, or Son of God

This very first human / Man / Son existing before Adam and Eve.

- when does Jesus be removed and taken away and loose his seat and position of being GLORIFIED to sit at the right hand of God ?

when is the seating arrangement in heaven changed for the Trinitarian Jesus concerning his new glory, new power, new authority, ?

his - rank, position, power, reputation, status, level, evaluation - his newly altered seating arrangement in the heavens is being changed and he is commanded - sit here - - until - this time comes,, - until such and such a time,, - Jesus will be seated - on my right hand,
Why is God asking Jesus to change his position and move himself to re position himself to receive something that he did not possess previously to be promoted to receiving authority and power.

Receiving equality with the Father ?
Receiving Eternal Status of Godhead with the Father ?
Receiving the same power with the Father ?
Receiving glory, worship from the angels and all of heaven -
Receiving the power to forgive and judgment - committing all judgment unto the Son:
Receiving a new seat in heaven at the very right hand side of the Father - that angels and authorities will now be subject unto Jesus
Receiving - the right hand of the Father making him - eternal
mediator - that he never possesses in the Old Testament - as any man receiving
Receiving a new seat at the right hand of God, maketh intercession for us


Receiving exaltation at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.

All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me

I simply ask - he was to be there ‘ until ‘ such a such and such a time, this means, he was not always there - -

Trinitarian father is saying to Trinitarian son --- Jesus - commanding Jesus - - “” move your seating arrangement, “” commanding Jesus - - Jesus - - you are commanded to bring your throne over here and - move from where you currently are seated and come over here to the right hand side of me and sit down here on my right hand side - sit here on my right hand side…

and also, Jesus ……….. you, sit here - ‘ until ‘ such a such a time,

and Jesus - - - you are to sit here, until / until your enemies be made a footstool.

this means that Trinitarian Jesus was not always seated on the right hand of the father and that after such and such a time, he will no longer be remaining _ seated / existing - - - on the right hand of the Trinitarian father.

1Pe 3:22 Jesus is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of god; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

but

- :13 FROM HENCEFORTH EXPECTING “ { this position } “ UNTIL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE HIS FOOTSTOOL.


to add to my personal confusion - if any Trinitarian Friends Can Please Help me To Understand ?


Trinitarian Jesus is expecting that he will maintain his seat and position of being GLORIFIED to sit ON the right hand of God - until his enemies be made a footstool ..

Ok


but why would Jesus have to lower himself and take on the role or morph or form of a man or lower himself to be a servant of God - and come down to earth and manifest himself in the form of a human being - a man

if that was what or who he already always was and always will be ?

why would Jesus have to lower himself and take on the role or morph or form of a man or lower himself to be changed and altered, changing his status, changing onto someone existing as a servant of God – he is changed, altered - LOWERING HIMSELF and becoming found to be fashioned as a servant / man in flesh - as a man

Changed, becoming suddenly obedient to the Father - Changed, becoming suddenly made into a lower human form / man
- Changed, becoming suddenly Co Equal - moving his position, status, rank, authority sitting on the right of the Father

1. why - is he suddenly being promoted, re - positioned, re - located and moving upward in rank and power

The Father is changing and elevating the status of his position from one LOWER position to be ELEVATED and re located and placed and moved to another higher position, a higher status - rank / authority. Jesus us being GIVEN an equality with the father -
HE IS BEING GIVEN AUTHORITY OVER - all of the hosts of heaven, all of creation, the angels are subject to him.


We notice that when Jesus was
Heb 1:4 Being made - so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

:5 THIS DAY - THIS DAY - have I begotten thee? I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son

:6 let all the angels of God worship him.

but why does the Trinity faith say that all of this is as something that he already possesses and exists as ?

or someone whom he already was, and always will be in the Trinitarian doctrine ?

as pre – existing as human, before Adam and Eve.
 
According to some physicists, Time is an illusion that we experience because we see changes which we interpret as time. From change A to change B.
In the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment, it appears that the future affects the past!
This means that events are connected as part of a whole and Time as a concept doesn't exist because from our point of view, how can the present change the past? That would be like time-traveling in the past.

So, as @shittim has said a few times, Creation is more of a word for Revelation or how much we are allowed or revealed to see but we can't fully understand it.

I found this article interesting.

Delayed-choice quantum eraser experiment: How it forced us to rethink reality | NEWS.am TECH - Innovations and science

In brief
The delayed-choice quantum eraser experiment shows that a decision to observe or not observe a photon’s path, made after its detection, determines whether wave-like or particle-like behavior is observed. This forces a reassessment of time and causality, creating the impression that the system takes future choices into account. In Wheeler’s interpretation, reality is defined by measurement rather than by the underlying process. Quantum mechanics thus continues to challenge our intuitive understanding of how the world works.
 
According to the bible or story, the answer is no. We must first understand that the first bible was the Hebrew bible and all bibles are translation from this original text. Sometimes we need to go back to truly understand what the writers intended to say. In Hebrew there are three words that look very similar and therefore confused in their translations. ‘adaaam means mankind; more than one person. Haa-‘adaam (with article) means the man, and ‘eth haa-‘adaam (with article and particle) is a specific person named Adam.

Genesis 1
[SUP]26[/SUP]
And God said, Let us make man (‘adaam) in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Here it’s talking about the creation of mankind. Note the underline word! It indicates more than one!
[SUP]27[/SUP] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Here is indicated that males and females were created at the same time. So in the beginning of time God created a population of man and women.
[SUP]28 [/SUP]And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

-Notice in this verse, God says to be fruitful and multiply. If he hadn’t created Eve yet, how can any man multiply? As we now know, there was a population of women now in existence. We can also understand from this passage that the men God created where to have domain over the fish of the sea (fishermen) and over the fowl of the air, and every living thing… (hunters)

Genesis 2
[SUP]5 [/SUP]
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
[SUP]6 [/SUP]But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
[SUP]7 [/SUP]And the Lord God formed man (‘eth haa-‘adaam) of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

-With only fisherman and hunters, there was no one to till the ground (farmers) so God formed Adam. Notice that he wasn’t created! but rather formed. As stated again in verse 8.
This was the purpose of the creation of Adam. Then God gives him a wife that would suit him and Eve came into existence. They first had Cain and Abel [later Seth (Gen 4:25) and many more (Gen 5:4)]. And as we all know the story, Cain murders Abel and God punishes him.

Genesis 4
[SUP]12 [/SUP]
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
A fugitive and a vagabond shalt though be is God kicking him out from Eden.
[SUP]13 [/SUP]And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
[SUP]14 [/SUP]Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
[SUP]15 [/SUP]And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

-In verse 14, Cain is afraid to be killed if someone finds him. Notice again the underline words! In verse 15 the lord refers to people with whosoever, again supporting the existence of other people!
[SUP]
16 [/SUP]
And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
[SUP]17 [/SUP]And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

-Cain went to Nod and got married with a woman from there. Again supporting the existence of other people and even women!! Throughout the rest of the chapter, it lists generations. Again if people look past Cain’s wife as simply something you can’t question and the bible doesn’t give answers to everything, then where did Enoch find his wife? And the following people. Again, it’s because there were many men and women on earth!

Yes, Gen. 1:26-28 refers to the creation of humanity and Gen. 2:7&22 refer to the creation of the first man and woman,
which seems to be out of chronological order. Gen. 2:17 & 3:1-8 indicate the way humans differ from animals or robots.
 
According to the bible or story, the answer is no. We must first understand that the first bible was the Hebrew bible and all bibles are translation from this original text. Sometimes we need to go back to truly understand what the writers intended to say. In Hebrew there are three words that look very similar and therefore confused in their translations. ‘adaaam means mankind; more than one person. Haa-‘adaam (with article) means the man, and ‘eth haa-‘adaam (with article and particle) is a specific person named Adam.

Genesis 1
[SUP]26[/SUP]
And God said, Let us make man (‘adaam) in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Here it’s talking about the creation of mankind. Note the underline word! It indicates more than one!
[SUP]27[/SUP] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Here is indicated that males and females were created at the same time. So in the beginning of time God created a population of man and women.
[SUP]28 [/SUP]And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

-Notice in this verse, God says to be fruitful and multiply. If he hadn’t created Eve yet, how can any man multiply? As we now know, there was a population of women now in existence. We can also understand from this passage that the men God created where to have domain over the fish of the sea (fishermen) and over the fowl of the air, and every living thing… (hunters)

Genesis 2
[SUP]5 [/SUP]
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
[SUP]6 [/SUP]But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
[SUP]7 [/SUP]And the Lord God formed man (‘eth haa-‘adaam) of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

-With only fisherman and hunters, there was no one to till the ground (farmers) so God formed Adam. Notice that he wasn’t created! but rather formed. As stated again in verse 8.
This was the purpose of the creation of Adam. Then God gives him a wife that would suit him and Eve came into existence. They first had Cain and Abel [later Seth (Gen 4:25) and many more (Gen 5:4)]. And as we all know the story, Cain murders Abel and God punishes him.

Genesis 4
[SUP]12 [/SUP]
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
A fugitive and a vagabond shalt though be is God kicking him out from Eden.
[SUP]13 [/SUP]And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
[SUP]14 [/SUP]Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
[SUP]15 [/SUP]And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

-In verse 14, Cain is afraid to be killed if someone finds him. Notice again the underline words! In verse 15 the lord refers to people with whosoever, again supporting the existence of other people!
[SUP]
16 [/SUP]
And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
[SUP]17 [/SUP]And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

-Cain went to Nod and got married with a woman from there. Again supporting the existence of other people and even women!! Throughout the rest of the chapter, it lists generations. Again if people look past Cain’s wife as simply something you can’t question and the bible doesn’t give answers to everything, then where did Enoch find his wife? And the following people. Again, it’s because there were many men and women on earth!

The Bible does ot say that time had beginning.
 
The Bible does ot say that time had beginning.

The Bible does not say a lot of things that people say it says.
The truth is in the original texts.
But mankind has misunderstood the texts and added his own beliefs to the Word.
Most people I know doesn't understand the first verse so how can they understand the rest of it?

(Quote) Genesis 1:1 בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ׃
This is a declarative statement of completed action

Only seven words. Hebrew reads from right to left..
1st word has a beit as the first letter, which translates in and is followed by the word translated beginning.
2nd word is a verb translated created.
3rd word is a noun translated as God.
4th word is the sign of the direct object and does not translate.
5th word is a plural noun with the definite article prefix and translates as the heavens.
6th word is the sign of the direct object with a conjunction prefix which as and.
7th word is a singular noun with the definite article prefix and translates as the Earth.

Translation: "In beginning created God the Heavens and the Earth".

There is no date set anywhere for this to take place in the text.
God has alway existed in eternal duration.
There is no such thing as TIME other than it is a concept created by mankind to measure the duration between events in eternity.

You can find the History of the day God created the heavens and the in Genesis 2:4 - Genesis 4:24.
All of these events took place in one light period, as the man formed from the dust of the ground that ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil had to die in the same day (light period) he ate the fruit. Darkness did not exist until Genesis 1:2 which should have followed Genesis 4:24.

There is a creation event that took place in eternity past that ended with the darkness God created at Genesis 1:2 which was the beginning of the 6 days of work God did to refurbish Earth.

Enjoy the truth for a change.
 
Where is this taught in scripture?

There were no light and dark periods prior to God created darkness at Genesis 1:2, so there was no way to measure duration.

So time is a concept of mankind that was created by man to measure duration between events in eternity based on the duration it takes for the Earth make a complete rotation in relation to the sun. Time is not a physical entity.

Genesis 1:5 - Genesis 2:2

Icant.
 
What does this mean? It sounds like you saying that Moses made a mistake and put Gen 1:2 in the wrong place. So, I presume I am misunderstanding your point.

Moses made no mistake. But he had no control of the scribes divided up what he wrote. Moses wrote with no sentences, paragraphs, verses or chapters. When Moses finished Genesis, it was one continuous word on many clay tablets which could be arranged in any order by the Scribes.

Icant
 
What does this mean? It sounds like you saying that Moses made a mistake and put Gen 1:2 in the wrong place. So, I presume I am misunderstanding your point.
First we don’t know for sure if Moses wrote genesis. Second, if he did, he most likely wrote it from what he received and was taught from the oral tradition. Many scholars believe it was written by multiple authors based on oral tradition.
 
First we don’t know for sure if Moses wrote genesis. Second, if he did, he most likely wrote it from what he received and was taught from the oral tradition. Many scholars believe it was written by multiple authors based on oral tradition.
"Many Scholars" are likely atheists. All scripture is God breathed.
 
Where is this taught in scripture?

There were no light and dark periods prior to God created darkness at Genesis 1:2, so there was no way to measure duration.

So time is a concept of mankind that was created by man to measure duration between events in eternity based on the duration it takes for the Earth make a complete rotation in relation to the sun. Time is not a physical entity.

Genesis 1:5 - Genesis 2:2

Icant.

So, it's not taught in scripture. You are reading it into scripture. According to your theory, then, God has never planned anything, has never had one thought follow another thought, and God never reasoned before creation of this universe's light. That comes across as totally unconvincing as a theory.
 
Moses made no mistake. But he had no control of the scribes divided up what he wrote. Moses wrote with no sentences, paragraphs, verses or chapters. When Moses finished Genesis, it was one continuous word on many clay tablets which could be arranged in any order by the Scribes.

Icant

I can't just take your word for what the scribes did with his original text. You are just guessing, and the accounts already make sense without resorting to such gymnastics.
 
"Many Scholars" are likely atheists. All scripture is God breathed.
I doubt many are atheists but I know there are many that are agnostic. That doesn’t make what they study and discover is irrelevant. God breathed in original form possibly. After being translated, edited, and compiled by humans the possibility decreases.

The Jews make the claim based off tradition. Paul makes the claim based off tradition. Paul also made the claim before the new testament existed so he couldn’t have been talking about it. If the English Bible is God breathed then which version would it be and how many books would it have?
 
I doubt many are atheists but I know there are many that are agnostic. That doesn’t make what they study and discover is irrelevant. God breathed in original form possibly. After being translated, edited, and compiled by humans the possibility decreases.

The Jews make the claim based off tradition. Paul makes the claim based off tradition. Paul also made the claim before the new testament existed so he couldn’t have been talking about it. If the English Bible is God breathed then which version would it be and how many books would it have?
Saying the Bible comes from oral tradition is their way of making the Bible equal to the oral traditions of other religions and to introduce the possibility of changes and error.

This undermines the inspiration of the Holy Spirit on the authors. It's usually done by people who don't like some of what the Bible says so they can dismiss the parts they don't like.
 
I can't just take your word for what the scribes did with his original text. You are just guessing, and the accounts already make sense without resorting to such gymnastics.

Fact the original text written by Moses :
Had no spaces between letters,
No punction marks,
No verses, and
No chapters.

You make of that whatever you want too.

Because Moses had no control over how his words got translated or divided up.

Icant
 
Fact the original text written by Moses :
Had no spaces between letters,
No punction marks,
No verses, and
No chapters.

You make of that whatever you want too.

Because Moses had no control over how his words got translated or divided up.

Icant
While you may have a point regarding the original written text, there are only so many possible ways to “break up” the text without it becoming meaningless. I suggest you propose an alternative to the traditional understanding instead of merely suggesting there is one.
 
Fact the original text written by Moses :
Had no spaces between letters,
No punction marks,
No verses, and
No chapters.

You make of that whatever you want too.

Because Moses had no control over how his words got translated or divided up.

Icant
There's a big difference between adding full stops, commas, punctuation marks, verses, chapters - and moving sections of text around.
 
Saying the Bible comes from oral tradition is their way of making the Bible equal to the oral traditions of other religions and to introduce the possibility of changes and error.

This undermines the inspiration of the Holy Spirit on the authors. It's usually done by people who don't like some of what the Bible says so they can dismiss the parts they don't like.
Not sure how it undermines the Holy Spirit. Does the Holy Spirit make you without error? No. The Spirit is a helper, not a doer. Are we to say that all versions are inspired by God? You mentioned yourself the possibility of Bible scholars being atheists. Is there not the same possibility for translators being atheist?

Are there things I don’t like about the Bible? Yes of course there are. It’s not what it says though. I don’t like that there are hundreds of versions just in the English. I don’t like that we don’t know who wrote most of the books. I don’t like that a lot of it is unclear enough to be left up to our interpretation. I don’t like how some parts are taken literally by some and hypothetically by others. I don’t like how some passages were changed, added later, or taken out. I don’t like how we just assign authors to books when we don’t know who wrote them.

It’s not that God is too small but rather the Bible is too small for God. We can never understand Him, and the fact this forum exists proves that. If there was one copy of the Bible written in a language that all could read and come to the same conclusion on, there would be no need to discuss it.

If you can give the English version that is the one correct version being they can’t all be correct, I would love to hear why it is?
 
The answer to the question in the OP is "yes", if "people" is defined as hominids having God-consciousness and moral conscience.

How this jibes/harmonizes with homo erectus etal. is a separate question, that I do not find secular historians answering,
such as the Smithsonian "History Year by Year" that was a Christmas gift offered to me that I freely chose to open, although
that does not mean I deserved anything more than coal. :rolleyes: