ADAM WAS NOT THE FIRST
MAN
By
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.
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