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ADAM WAS NOT THE FIRST MAN
Bertrand L. Comparet
Many people have become agnostics
because of the supposed conflict between the Bible and science. In truth, there
is no conflict at all between a correct translation of the Bible and really
proven science, not just unproven theories. One of these supposed conflicts is
between the fact science knows human beings have lived on the earth far longer
than the few thousand years covered by the Bible and the common belief that the
Bible records Adam was the first man. Yes, I know most of the preachers say
that, but the Bible doesn't, it merely says Adam was the first white man.
Let's look at the record.
The many mistranslations in the King
James Bible obscure much of the truth. For example Genesis 1:1-2,
"In the beginning, Yahweh created the heaven and the earth. And the earth
was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep." In
the Hebrew it says, "Now the earth had become chaotic and
empty." (See Rotherham's Emphasized Bible) Some early catastrophe had
wrecked the earth, which was not without form and void before that. This was a
judgment of Yahweh on earlier civilizations, for their wickedness. Jeremiah
4:23-27 gives a vision of it. "I beheld the earth and lo, it was
without form and void; and the heavens and they had no light. I beheld the
mountains and lo, they trembled and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld and
lo, there was no man and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and
lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness and all the cities thereof were
broken down at the presence of Yahweh and by His fierce anger. For thus hath
Yahweh said, "The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full
end." Therefore we do find buried ruins of cities older than Adam and
skeletons, which can be dated by the carbon 14 process as many as thousands of
years older. The Bible itself tells us about this.
Next the Bible tells us about the
creation of men, in the plural in Genesis 1:26-28 saying,
"Male and female created He them and Yahweh told these people, Be
fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth". Plenish is an
obsolete English word meaning to fill. You cannot replenish what was
never plenished, or filled, before. In Genesis chapter 2, we find the
Adam (in the singular) created. The Hebrew word aw-dawm, rendered Adam in
English, is from a root word meaning to show blood in the face or of a
ruddy complexion, a word obviously not applicable to the dark races, which
we also know from scientific evidence to be much older than the white race.
Bible scholars know Genesis 3:20, "And Adam called his wife's name
Eve because she was the mother of all living", is a later interpolation,
which was not in the earlier manuscripts. (See Moffatt's translation.)
Genesis chapter 4
records the birth of Cain and Abel. In the Hebrew, the wording suggests that
they were twins. No other child of Eve is mentioned until the birth of Seth,
when Adam was 130 years old. Certainly this was long after the birth of Cain and
Abel, most scholars say this was over 100 years later. Yet, when Cain killed
Abel, and in punishment was driven out of the land, he complained to Yahweh in Genesis
4:14, "Any one that findeth me shall slay me". Upon being sent
away, Cain found many other people, for Genesis 4:17 records Cain not
only married a wife, but also built a city. You don't build a city for just two
people. These were the pre-Adamic races, mentioned in the latter part of Genesis
chapter 2.
The Garden of Eden was not a
plantation of ordinary trees and shrubs. Yahweh did nothing so foolish as to
make a special creation, just to have a man to wield shovel and pruning shears,
when He already had millions of pre Adamites available for this type of work. We
are told that the Garden of Eden contained the tree of the knowledge (or
experience) of good and evil. No tree of the forest has any knowledge or
experience of either good or evil. Ezekiel chapter 31 says, "Behold,
the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and a shadowing bough
and of an high stature; Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of
the field and his boughs were multiplied and his branches became long; all the
fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs and under his branches did all
the beasts of the field bring forth their young and under his shadow dwelt all
great nations. The cedars in the garden of Yahweh could not hide him: the
fir trees were not like his boughs and the chestnut trees were not like his
branches; nor any tree in the garden of Yahweh was like unto him in his
beauty. I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that
all the trees of Eden that were in the garden of Yahweh envied him".
Obviously, the trees in the garden of Yahweh in Eden were family trees of races
and nations who admired and envied the early Assyrian empire. These made up the
garden that Adam was to cultivate. Satan had been what we might call the
superintendent of this planet, to rule it in obedience to Yahweh's will, until
he forfeited this position by rebellion against Yahweh. Adam was sent to take
his place. It was Adam's job to rule the various nations and races of the earth
as Yahweh's representative here, educating them in Yahweh's laws and enforcing
obedience to those laws. These other races and nations had been here long before
Adam. Therefore the Bible makes it unmistakably clear we are not all descended
from Adam and Eve, for there were other races on earth, already old, already
numerous, when Adam was created. Among these other races there are several who
are simply pre-Adamic and one at least, which is satanic. If you will read the
third chapter of Genesis, you will notice that, immediately after the fall of
Adam, when Yahweh required them to answer what they had done, Yahweh condemned
Satan. The word-mistranslated serpent is the Hebrew word naw-khash, which
literally means enchanter or magician.
No doubt Satan still possessing
angelic powers was able to be an enchanter or magician. It is certain the one
who seduced Eve was no mere scaly snake wriggling along on the ground. Yes, I
said seduced Eve, for this is what she admitted in the original Hebrew. Cain was
the son of this seduction. The Bible uses the word begat with monotonous
regularity but, the first time the Bible ever says Adam ever begat anyone is Genesis
5:3 where it says, "And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years and
begat a son in his own likeness, after his image: and called his name
Seth." To get back to Genesis 3:15, Yahweh said to Satan, "I
will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her
seed." The same Hebrew word for seed is used in both cases. Satan was
to have just as literal seed, or descendants, as Eve. Yahweh's own word being
pledged to this, we must expect to find it actually happening and we do. Yahshua
tells us of it.
In Matthew 13:38-39, explaining
the parable of the tares among the wheat Yahshua says, "The field is the
world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom: but the tares are the
children of the wicked one: the enemy that sowed them is the devil." In
John 6:70-71, Yahshua had been talking with His twelve disciples and we
read, "Yahshua answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve and one of
you is a devil? He spake of Judas Escariot the son of Simon: for he it was
that should betray Him being one of the twelve." You should carefully read
John chapter 8 where Yahshua told those who hated Him, "Ye are of
your father the devil and the lusts of your father ye will do." He was
not being vulgarly abusive in either of these cases, for He never resorted to
name calling so His statement was precisely accurate. He did call some of them
serpents, children of vipers, which was accurate. Long before this, they had
adopted the serpent as a symbol of Satan. This is why their tradition had
given the word naw-khash the translation serpent, when it really means
enchanter. Yahshua therefore was telling them that they were of their father the
devil (or serpent, if they preferred that word). In this He was simply stating a
biological fact with scientific precision and identifying the persons of this
ancestry. Whenever someone tells you the Bible is in conflict with what modern science has proven true, don't you believe it. The things many preachers teach are in conflict with scientific truth, as we all know, but these preachers are equally in conflict with the Bible. Go back to the Bible, not to any man made doctrines and double-check it for accuracy of translation. You will find what the Bible really says, in its original languages, is accurate with a precision our scientists have not yet achieved. |