Read Time: 2 minutes, 15 seconds. In Western countries, nearly every imaginative painting of Adam and Eve depicts two adult Caucasians with fair skin and blue eyes. These images, even when used as Bible illustrations, tend to shape the reader's...
The idea that there were civilizations on Earth before Adam began among the Christians of England and Europe in the early 1600s. It was an idea that resulted from the discovery of remote tribes who looked "different." The explanation put forward...
Read time: 2 minutes, 30 seconds. Genesis chapters 5, 9, 11, 25, 35, 47 and 50 contain the genealogy of the beginnings of the human family. From Adam through Moses, we are told who was related to whom, the age of the father at the birth of their...
Scientific and historical explanation of Adam and Eve's kids.
The Genesis account of Creation provides mankind with just the bare facts we need to know about our origin. Further facts are revealed progressively throughout Scripture. The Creation account then concludes with, "Then God saw everything that He...
The account of the creation of the universe, the Earth and the first human couple is confined to the first chapter of Genesis. We wish more details had been given, yet diligent reading of the rest of Scripture does reveal answers to many of those...
Michelangelo's fourth panel on the famous Sistine Chapel ceiling is the well-known depiction of God creating Adam. Both figures have one arm raised and forefingers almost touching. The moment is supposedly when God infused His just-created figure...
It was probably in the morning of the sixth day – that is, Friday of Earth's first week – when God created Adam. God had spent the early part of that day overseeing the creation of the cattle, the beasts and the creeping things from...
Genesis chapter one provides the account of God's creation of the heavens and the earth while, at the end of that chapter, the creation of man and woman is introduced. The second chapter is more specific about the man – now named Adam...
Isaac de la Peyrére [1596-1676] was a Dutch ecclesiastic and published his Systema Theologicum ex Prae-Adamitarum Hypothesi in 1655. In this book he claimed that the Bible is only concerned with the history of the Jews. Peyrére...
