Did God create Adam & Eve being that there were already people on Earth?

[enoob57]

8 minutes ago, tharkun said:

Interpretation absent all cultural and literary context

It's creation there is no culture yet ... 

[tharkun]

4 minutes ago, enoob57 said:

the statement says grammatically 'all living' your imagination 'there are other living'
2 Corinthians 10:5 (KJV)

[5] Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

I will not take liberties with God's Word because He has warned me not to!

 

No, I'm taking the word 'literally' as it would have been understood by the people who wrote it and when they wrote it. 

[tharkun]

4 minutes ago, enoob57 said:

It's creation there is no culture yet ... and we will just have to disagree on hermeneutic principles on interpretation of God's Word!

The scriptures were written from within a cultural context and to a cultural context. Ignoring that is short-sighted and can lead to all kinds of wonky interpretations. It was written for us, not to us. Failing to understand the context it was written from and to is an error of the first magnitude.

[enoob57]

1 minute ago, tharkun said:

No, I'm taking the word 'literally' as it would have been understood by the people who wrote it and when they wrote it. 

please quote the verse that says there were blood lines other than from Adam and Eve

[tharkun]

2 minutes ago, enoob57 said:

please quote the verse that says there were blood lines other than from Adam and Eve

please quote the verse that says Cain's wife was his sister

[enoob57]

thank you were done!

[tharkun]

4 minutes ago, enoob57 said:

thank you were done!

You see, even you make assumptions about the text. Who's to say that your assumptions are the correct ones? Some things in scripture we should hold with an open hand; creation and evolution is one of those things as spirit-minded Christians have fallen on both sides of the issue. Dogmatism in side issues is the absence of growth to maturity.

[Marston]

27 minutes ago, enoob57 said:

the statement says grammatically 'all living' your imagination 'there are other living'
2 Corinthians 10:5 (KJV)

[5] Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

I will not take liberties with God's Word because He has warned me not to!

 

I agree. It's obvious that Adam and Eve bore all Neanderthals. 

[The_Patriot21]

3 hours ago, Marston said:

Genesis 1 explains that God made humanity.

Genesis 2 explains that God made Adam and Eve.

Why did Adam and Eve bear modern humans along with Neanderthals and other "species" of humans? 

You do realize that neanderthals are just humans? 

And that there has only ever been one "species" of humans? 

Things like skin color doesn't mean we're a different species, that's just called variation within a species.

What it comes down to, is do you trust science from man, who has a history of lying and flat out being wrong, often from selfish reasons since well, Adam and Eve sinned, or are you going to trust God? 

One source seems more reliable then the next. One scientific theory was designed by a man who hated God and made it with the express purpose to discredit the Bible, the other was well, God, and He laid it out in black and white how He created the world.

And the two theories are not compatible. You cant make evolution fit into a scripture, it doesn't work.

It's not a salvational issue, but that doesn't change what the scripture says. What you believe is up to you, I'll stay with scripture.

Since I'm not in the mood for a debate, I will leave it at that. Have a good day.

[Marston]

19 minutes ago, enoob57 said:

please quote the verse that says there were blood lines other than from Adam and Eve

Exactly right. Obviously all Neanderthals came from Adam and Eve.