Churchwork
08-08-2006, 07:17 PM
In Mesopotamia, the tradition of the times was to enlarge ages to designate importance. The Bible is simply in keeping with such methods of the times. We should not be blamed today for the Bible keeping true to that practice then. This is in keeping with the authenticity of the Scriptures which shows us this practice then. It would less likely be trustworthy if it was subsequently changed. The real ages (that we will not know for certain) and each generation upon generation brings us to about 4000 B.C. for Adam, the first God-conscious man according to biological reproduction. 32.5 years per generation x 76 generations gets us to Jesus Christ. Including God makes 77 generations. 7 incidentally is the number of temporary completion, so that in achieving the point of Adam is one temporary completion and Christ breaking into creation is another. Many agnostics will make this a petty dispute requiring 4000 B.C. for Adam, but logically that is inaccurate according to reproduction. What is needed for them is to be delivered from the petty self, not just sin and the supernatural (evil).
There were civilizations 4000 B.C. and 10,000 B.C., pictures on cave walls 100,000 B.C., and even cities in Earth's earliest ages before earth was made desolate (v.2) due to sin. Then God restored what was already there in the 6 days of restoration, which are 6 twenty-four hour "summary days" in a book of spirit. God wants us to concentrate on this matter of "restoration" according to the Hebrew words used, since there is little to be gained prior to restoration. Pre-adamic man did not have God-consciousness, since prior to 13.7 billion years ago, God decided it would take 13.7 billion years to bring about the first Adam, who would be that first God-conscious man. At some point you would expect that first God-conscious and self-aware man would be reached; in fact it is so, for he happens to be Adam around 4000 B.C. Amen. Christ is the second Adam or last Adam. His work "is finished" on the cross.
There were civilizations 4000 B.C. and 10,000 B.C., pictures on cave walls 100,000 B.C., and even cities in Earth's earliest ages before earth was made desolate (v.2) due to sin. Then God restored what was already there in the 6 days of restoration, which are 6 twenty-four hour "summary days" in a book of spirit. God wants us to concentrate on this matter of "restoration" according to the Hebrew words used, since there is little to be gained prior to restoration. Pre-adamic man did not have God-consciousness, since prior to 13.7 billion years ago, God decided it would take 13.7 billion years to bring about the first Adam, who would be that first God-conscious man. At some point you would expect that first God-conscious and self-aware man would be reached; in fact it is so, for he happens to be Adam around 4000 B.C. Amen. Christ is the second Adam or last Adam. His work "is finished" on the cross.