"The two contradictory creation myths in Genesis contradict everything we know from science about biology and cosmology and the origins of our world and the diversity of life in it. We were not created by a god. We evolved over the course of several million years from a long line of hominid species. This fact is easy to verify. And biological evolution is an indisputable fact that has been confirmed many times over the course of many years. And science and what we know from it has completely disproven the Adam and Eve myth. The universe and our world did not come into being simultaneously and the earth is not 6000 years old nor is it flat. And the world is not the way it is because a talking snake convinced two obviously mythical people to eat magic fruit from a magic tree."
The Adam and Eve story is foundational to the Christian faith. Without it, there is no fall into sin and no need for a savior or redemption. And Jesus Christ was called the second Adam. But if there was never a first Adam, then there can never be a second Adam.
1 Corinthians 15:45-49 NKJV
And so it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. [46] However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. [47] The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven. [48] As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. [49] And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.
Jesus Christ's mission as the second Adam was to undo the damage caused by the first Adam and Satan.
1 John 3:8 NKJV
He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.
Without Adam and Eve, the Christian faith falls apart. There is no original couple who began the human species, no fall into sin, and no need for redemption from sin, no mission for Jesus to accomplish, and no need for the crucifixion or the shedding of Jesus's blood as an atonement for the remission of sins.
What we now know about human origins from science (that we evolved over the course of several million years from a long line of hominid species) reveals the Bible to be a work of ancient religious fiction and that is exactly what it is. It's ancient religious mythology and fiction from cover to cover.
Yes, exactly this!
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