TO TEST YOUR BIBLICAL SKILL & KNOWLEDGE:

[Arthur Durnan]

According to the Holy bible, the Word of God, who were the people that lived before Adam?

Gotcha on this one, right? It'll probably require a biblical I.Q. much larger than that of a blunt dart. Ouch!

Go for it.

Answer will be here tomorrow (if all goes well).

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[Crusader4Christ]

You'll probably say Lucifer and the angels, right?

[Ovedya]

Yeah, but Lucifer and the angels are not people.

[Guest Calamity]

I've read where some people think the pre-historic man, was actually before Adam. Some think that Genesis 1:1, (I think), is speaking of the earth having been destroyed, and then God again made it habitable in the other parts of Genesis. I don't know, and haven't looked into it very much, but found a link:

http://www.branchministry.net/bibleteachin...ngs/floods2.htm

where they basically tell their side, and the verses used to back it up. Like I said, I haven't looked into it much at all, so I don't know how accurately they are using the Scripture, and I don't know what else this ministry teaches. It's interesting, but don't know how reliable it is.

[Ovedya]

I've read where some people think the pre-historic man, was actually before Adam. Some think that Genesis 1:1, (I think), is speaking of the earth having been destroyed, and then God again made it habitable in the other parts of Genesis. I don't know, and haven't looked into it very much, but found a link:

http://www.branchministry.net/bibleteachin...ngs/floods2.htm

where they basically tell their side, and the verses used to back it up. Like I said, I haven't looked into it much at all, so I don't know how accurately they are using the Scripture, and I don't know what else this ministry teaches. It's interesting, but don't know how reliable it is.

As I have said in another thread here (The age of the earth), Scofield made the same argument in his footnotes of the Scofield reference edition of the Bible. I happen to believe that what we refer to as "prehistoric man" is actually a pre-Adamic race of people. Examine the Scofield and see. He makes a very compelling argument for this.

[Guest Calamity]

Thanks, GM. I'll see if I can find one. One of the questions I have about this, is if there were people before Adam, what happened to them? I mean, salvation-wise? Could some of them been like Abraham or could it have been so bad that no one followed God?

[Ovedya]

Thanks, GM. I'll see if I can find one. One of the questions I have about this, is if there were people before Adam, what happened to them? I mean, salvation-wise? Could some of them been like Abraham or could it have been so bad that no one followed God?

Hard to say. The Bible is not definative in this matter. One strong thing to consider is that up until the end of Noah's flood, where God promised to never judge man by water again, is that water definitely indicated judgment. So when we read in Genesis that the earth was without shape and void....and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, we must ask, "Where did the waters come from, and why were they there?" Scofield's conclusion was that God had previously judged a pre-Adamic race of peoples with water. Just as He judged the past-Adamic race with water.

[Guest Calamity]

That sounds like what they were saying at the website I mentioned. My husband has a Scofield at work, and I called and asked him to bring it home, so I could look at the references in it. Thanks.

[Arthur Durnan]

Sorry for the delay in getting back from T.O.

The PEOPLE who lived before Adam were............

ANTS! They are called PEOPLE in Proverbs 30:24-28, and, of course, if you know the stated order of creation in Genesis Chapter One, you'll realize that ANTS were created before Adam!

Into all of our lives a little light must shine.

Have a GREAT DAy in God's House this A.M.!

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[rafter]

Very good, I would never have gotten that one. Thanks for the brain teaser and have a great day.

God Bless,

Denny