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������ ADAM WAS NOT THE FIRST MAN by Bertrand L.
������ Comparet
�� Date:
������ Sun, 25 Mar 2001 11:05:28 ‑0800
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ADAM WAS NOT THE FIRST MAN
���������������� by Bertrand L. Comparet
���� The Bible tells of the creation of MEN, IN THE PLURAL, in
Genesis 1:26‑28, saying,
���� "Male and female created He THEM" (1:27), and God told these
people, "Be fruitful and
���� multiply, and Replenish the earth" (1:28). "Plenish" is an
obsolete English word, meaning "to
���� fill"; and you cannot REplenish what was never plenished, or
filled, before. In the next
���� chapter, Genesis 2. we find THE ADAM (in the singular) formed.
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 know from scientific evidence to be much older than the
White Race.
���� Bible scholars know the latter part of the passage in 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). It
follows that Eve (which
���� means 'life‑giver'), being Adamic, could not have mothered the
earlier Yellow or Black races;
���� an idea which is only a popular misconception engendered by
fallacious Christian Education.
��� EVE DID NOT EAT AN APPLE!
������������������� Edenic Covenant
��������� In Gen. 3:3, God has told Eve she is not to eat (partake) of the
fruit (offspring) of
��������� the tree that was in the midst of the Garden. We know that the
tree in the midst of
��������� the Garden was a racial tree because it is described in Gen.
2:17 as a tree of the
��������� knowledge of good and evil. No fruit tree has a knowledge of
good or evil, so it
��������� could not have been an "apple tree". Also, Eve was
admonished not to touch* the
��������� fruit of the tree on pain of death. Certainly, touching an apple
would not have called
��������� for such stern punishment. Again in Gen. 3:61 Eve saw that
the fruit was pleasant
��������� to the eyes (handsome) and capable of making one wise. As it
turned out, partaking
��������� of the fruit of the racial tree did make Eve wise, because she
knew (immediately
��������� after she and Adam had sinned) that she was naked. A fact
that she did not seem to
��������� notice before the misdeed.
��������� "to lay hands upon, to lie with" ‑ See Strong's Concordance.
��������� When God asked Eve what she had done (Gen. 3:13) she said
the serpent beguiled
��������� her. In the first place, the Hebrew word "Nachash", translated
"serpent," actually
��������� means "spellbinding enchanter or magician". Now we know
how the serpent could
��������� talk to Eve. It was not a snake or any reptile with which we
are familiar, but Satan,
��������� in one of his many appearances. Understanding the foregoing
makes it easy to
��������� understand that the sin committed in the Garden of Eden was
of a sexual nature
��������� because when Eve said she was beguiled she actually was
saying she had been
��������� seduced. The Hebrew word "Nashall translated to "beguiled"
actually means "to
��������� lead astray, to seduce".
��������� It is quite evident that before Adam and Eve sinned theirs
was not a physical or
��������� sexual relationship. The Forgotten Books of Eden tell us that
God, the Father, had
��������� desired to bring forth children of Light from both of them
(perhaps in the same
��������� manner as Eve was brought from Adam). But when they
committed sexual sin;
��������� they were reduced to a purely physical plane of reproduction
(Gen. 3:16); they lost
��������� their aura or "glory" and were driven out of Eden. They were
no longer children of
��������� light, free from toil and pain and death. Yet God' s mercy did
not depart from
��������� them. The fallen man and woman were restored by God's
grace to a condition of
��������� favour. They had been given mortality and they came
therefore, under the
��������� dispensation of that state of being under which God made
with them a second
��������� Covenant.
�������������� ADAMIC COVENANT
��������� This Second Covenant teaches us the conditions of the life of
mortal (fallen)
��������� humanity, the conditions, that is, that have governed the lives
of all men since the
��������� Fall, under which, therefore we live. These conditions remain
until the coming of
��������� the Christ when he restores all things created, to their original
purity. This second
��������� Covenant was partly founded in a curse, for God's judgment
came upon Adam for
��������� his sin, and the judgment bore the burden of labour, "In the
sweat of thy face shalt
��������� thou eat bread"; the difficulty of labour, "thorns also and
thistles shall it bring forth
��������� to thee"; the sorrow of life, "in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all
the days of thy life";
��������� physical death, "dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou
return". All these things, the
��������� fruit of the curse, are included in the judgment of God upon
the Fall, yet how
��������� important it is to notice that even in such a Covenant, in such
a statement of God's
��������� will and purpose there is the clear promise of blessing and
restoration. For you
��������� have, in the story of this second Covenant, the first promise
of a Saviour, the first
��������� beginnings of God's work of redemption through the Godly
seed. It is this
��������� Covenant, made with Adam when cast out of Eden, which
provides the first link in
��������� a chain that runs unbroken throughout the whole Bible; that
chain of men, chosen
��������� and called out by God, who should labour for Him in
righteousness, and who
��������� should be fellow workers with God to restore His dominion
over the earth.