The writer used to believe that Adam stood for 'all prehistoric men' and Eve stood for 'all prehistoric women' and that these two kind of evolved into modern man but with some help from God. In fact Pope Paul II apparently had a similar belief, the belief that God kind of helped out with evolution. This was because the biblical story of Adam and Eve seems at first sight to be too naive and too simplistic to be literally true. Modern sophisticated man who believes that we arrived here through evolution and who knows that mankind existed before Adam finds the biblical account of our creation to be somewhat lacking in credibility.
But such a view is incorrect for the following two reasons at the least. Firstly God is more intelligent than us, so it is inconceivable that we would know more about our creation than he does, so his book must reflect this knowledge gap. Secondly, God evidently requires us to work for our physical food and likewise he requires us to work for our spiritual food. In other words we need to decode Genesis, we need to unravel it, to fully understand our beginning as a species.
We are now going to take you through 3 realisations.
[A] Adam and Eve were real people, a man and a woman.
[B] Adam was created in precisely the same way that Jesus was created.
[C] Eve was created from a fully grown pre-adamic person
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Furthermore, Jesus himself, when he commenced [his work], was about 30 years
old, being the son, as the opinion was, of Joseph, [son] of Heli, [who was
Mary's father]
24 [son] of Matthat, [Mary's mother's
father]
[son] of Levi, [Mary's mother's mother's father]
[son] of Melchi, [This is the maternal line]
[son] of Jannai,
[son] of Joseph,
25 [son] of Mattathias,
[son] of Amos,
[son] of Nahum,
[son] of Esli,
[son] of Naggai,
26 [son] of Maath,
[son] of Mattathias,
[son] of Semein,
[son] of Josech,
[son] of Joda,
27 [son] of Joanan,
[son] of Rhesa,
[son] of Zerubbabel,
[son] of Shealtiel,
[son] of Neri,
28 [son] of Melchi,
[son] of Addi,
[son] of Cosam,
[son] of Elmadam,
[son] of Er,
29 [son] of Jesus,
[son] of Eliezer,
[son] of Jorim,
[son] of Matthat,
[son] of Levi,
30 [son] of Symeon,
[son] of Judas,
[son] of Joseph,
[son] of Jonam,
[son] of Eliakim,
31 [son] of Melea,
[son] of Menna,
[son] of Mattatha,
[son] of Nathan,
[son] of David [maternal and paternal lines merge],
32 [son] of Jesse,
[son] of Obed,
[son] of Boaz,
[son] of Salmon,
[son] of Nahshon,
33 [son] of Amminadab,
[son] of Arni,
[son] of Hezron,
[son] of Perez,
[son] of Judah,
34 [son] of Jacob,
[son] of Isaac,
[son] of Abraham,
[son] of Terah,
[son] of Nahor,
35 [son] of Serug,
[son] of Reu,
[son] of Peleg,
[son] of Eber,
[son] of Shelah,
36 [son] of Cainan,
[son] of Arpachshad,
[son] of Shem,
[son] of Noah,
[son] of Lamech,
37 [son] of Methuselah,
[son] of Enoch,
[son] of Jared,
[son] of Mahalaleel,
[son] of Cainan,
38 [son] of Enosh,
[son] of Seth,
[son] of Adam,
[son] of God (Luke 3).
All of these ancestors were real human beings (except God). So Adam was a real human being. This line has 77 characters in it from Jesus to God inclusive. This is actually the maternal line, with each woman represented by her husband. The maternal line merges with the paternal line at King David.
The Paternal line from Abraham to Jesus is described in Matthew 1...
1 The book of the history of Jesus Christ, son of
David, son of Abraham:
2 Abraham became father to Isaac; Isaac became father to
Jacob; Jacob became father to Judah and his brothers;
3 Judah became father to Perez and to Zerah by Tamar;
Perez became father to Hezron; Hezron became father to Ram;
4 Ram became father to Amminadab; Amminadab became father
to Nahshon; Nahshon became father to Salmon;
5 Salmon became father to Boaz by Rahab; Boaz became
father to Obed by Ruth; Obed became father to Jesse;
6 Jesse became father to David the king. David became
father to Solomon by the wife of Uriah...
15 Eliud became father to Eleazar.
Eleazar became father to Matthan. Matthan became father to Jacob.
16 Jacob became father to Joseph the husband of Mary, of
whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ (Matthew 1).
These two lines of ancestral descent prove that Adam was a real human. Here are some other shorter biblical proofs
45 It is even so written: The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit (1 Corinthians 15).
A living soul is a human being. Jesus, the last Adam, was certainly a human
being. Therefore the first Adam from whom Jesus descends must also have been a
human being.
1 Now Adam had intercourse with Eve his wife and she became
pregnant. In time she gave birth to Cain and said: I have
produced a man with the aid of Jehovah (Genesis 4).
Since Adam made Eve pregnant and since she gave birth to a son, both of them must have been human.
7 And Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out
of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and
the man came to be a living soul.
8 Further, Jehovah God planted a garden in Eden, toward the east,
and there he put the man whom he had formed (Genesis 2).
So the man was formed before he was put into the garden. Where was he before this? Was he all by himself? Was he nowhere? Well we know from I5, that outside the garden were the pre adamic humans. So the formation process for Adam was rather more involved than the brief description above.
14 Nevertheless, death ruled as king from Adam down to Moses, even over those who had not sinned after the likeness of the transgression by Adam, who bears a resemblance to him that was to come [Jesus] (Romans 5:14).
A striking resemblance in fact. Notice that St. Paul, the author of most of the epistles, did not say: Who 'bore' a resemblance, he said: Who 'bears', present tense, a resemblance. This means that Adam is living to Paul. For Jesus used this very verbal tense argument to the Sadducees to show them that Abraham was living to God.
31 As regards the resurrection of the dead, did you not read what
was spoken to you by God, saying,
32 I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of
Jacob? He is the God, not of the dead, but of the living (Matthew 22).
Now as we saw above, Paul called Jesus, the last Adam...
45 It is even so written: The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit (1 Corinthians 15).
Now if Jesus was the last Adam, then Adam was the first Jesus. Therefore Adam was born to a surrogate mother and father as was Jesus. Paul says further that Jesus gave himself a corresponding ransom for all...
6 Who gave himself a corresponding ransom for
all [this is] what is to be witnessed to at its own particular times (1 Timothy
2:6).
Jesus, as regards his immaculate conception, corresponded to Adam, the one whom he ransomed, thereby releasing all of
his children from the one and only death sentence on them. We are all under the
death sentence passed and eventually executed upon Adam - see I10.
Now if there is a first and a last, then there must be one or more others in
between then for otherwise Jesus would have been called the second Adam. In fact
there were 14 others in between them see I21.
The first Adam was God's son born by immaculate conception to a surrogate mother, and so was Jesus. Adam had a pre-adamic surrogate mother, but truly had God and the Holy Spirit as his parents. Jesus had an adamic surrogate mother and likewise had God and the Holy Spirit as his parents. The first Adam was weaned and brought up until the age of 11 by pre adamic and angelic parents. These guys were not Neanderthals, but modern man. However they had not invented writing or the wheel and had not domesticated the horse and had not achieved very much at that time - see U1. However God took over the schooling of Adam once he was 11 years old, when he left the custody of his pre-adamic parent and entered the Garden of Eden under the custody of God - see U41.
Jesus on the other hand appeared before the Pharisees aged 11 by our reckoning but aged 12 by Hebrew reckoning.
41 Now his parents were accustomed to go from year to year to
Jerusalem for the festival of the passover.
42 And when he became 12 years old, they went up according to
the custom of the festival
43 and completed the days. But when they were returning, the boy
Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, and his parents did not notice it.
44 Assuming that he was in the company traveling together, they
covered a day's distance and then began to hunt him up among the relatives and acquaintances.
45 But, not finding him, they returned to Jerusalem, making a
diligent search for him.
46 Well, after 3 days they found him in the temple, sitting in
the midst of the teachers and listening to them and questioning them (Luke 2).
We have discovered from the bible code - see U41, that the correspondence between the Adam and Jesus is not only that they were both born by immaculate conception. Their lives also followed the same timetable. Adam sinned and left the garden and presumably returned to his pre-adamic parent when he was 33½ years old. And Jesus was murdered and paid for Adam's sin and returned to his heavenly parents at precisely the same age 33½ years old. Adam failed a test and thereby condemned us after 33½ years. Whereas Jesus passed a test and thereby saved us after 33½ years.
So now we can see that the 'dust from the ground' (Genesis 2:7), from which Adam was formed was the pre-adamics. For consider this promise that God made to Abraham...
16 And I will constitute your seed like the dust particles of the earth, so that, if a man could be able to count the dust particles of the earth, then your seed could be numbered (Genesis 13).
So Jacob, the chosen seed of Abraham was formed from the dust particles of
the earth as was Adam!
The situation with Eve is slightly more complicated. Keep an eye of the incidences of 'the man' and 'man', and notice that God took only one rib but Eve is said to be bone of Adam's bones (plural)...
21 Hence Jehovah God had a deep sleep fall upon the man and, while
he was sleeping, he took one of his ribs and then closed up the flesh over its place.
22 And Jehovah God proceeded to build the rib that he had taken
from the man into a woman and to bring her to the man.
23 Then the man said:
This is at last bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh
This one will be called Woman, because from Man this one was taken (Genesis
2:23)
So here we are told that Eve was taken not from 'the man' who is Adam, but from 'man' who is mankind in general. So she started off as a pre-adamic person.
We know too that God took Adam's rib and formed it into Eve. This is a symbolic statement. A rib is a part of the skeletal structure of the human body. So the rib stands for the structure of the human body, which today we know is a genetic structure. So using Adam's rib to recreate Eve is giving Eve the same genetic structure as Adam had. This is giving her a non ageing physical body like Adam originally had before he sinned.
Now we know that Eve appeared before Adam as a fully formed woman. So what must have happened was this: God picked a nice attractive pre-adamic person for Adam. He then zapped that persons Genes so that she became female and so that her body became indefinitely living as Adam's was (this being the application of Adam's rib to her, so that she became bone of his bones, gene of his genes). It is interesting that she was not said to be bone of his rib, or bone of his bone, but bone of his bones (plural). This tells us that it was not just the rib but rather a feature of the rib, which feature is common to all bones that God used to create Eve. Such a feature was most likely the bone marrow, which is common to all bones and which produces blood cells, which God uses to represent life.
23 Simply be firmly resolved not to eat the blood [do not eat living blood cells, dead blood cells represent nothing], because the blood is the soul and you must not eat the soul with the flesh (Deuteronomy 12).
After all the purpose of blood is to keep cells alive. So upgraded bone means upgraded bone marrow, which means upgraded blood, which means upgraded life, which is indefinite life, which is life in a non ageing body.
God actually gave her the body that she will have in the Kingdom of God. Some body huh? No wonder he fell for her! The rib from Adam The situation was slightly more complicated than this...
She was baptised not in the blood of Adam but in the bone, the rib of Adam, more like in the bone marrow of Adam. As a result of this baptism Eve was emptied of her original DNA and was made a female genetic clone of Adam. That made her really "the rib" and bones from his bones. And it gave her an indefinitely lasting body, as Adam's was (like she would have objected!).
So as Paul would say, Just as Eve resulted from the temporary death (the deep sleep) of Adam, so the first century church, the bride of Christ, resulted from the temporary death of Jesus.
Here is a nice table of correspondence between the birth of Eve, Adam's wife and the birth of the New covenant saints, Jesus' wife. This table involves advanced symbolism if you do not understand or accept it at this point then please refer back to it after you have read past section I31:
Adam | Jesus |
Deep Sleep | Death and Resurrection |
Rib out | Judas, one of the 12 (ribs, pillars), of Jesus' body (the church), leaves the last supper before the New Covenant is made. He is left out. Humans have 12 ribs. |
God closes his flesh over its place | The Law covenant ends before the rib is replaced by the 12th apostle Matthias (Acts 1) |
Eve brought to Adam by God | The New Covenant Saints (Jesus' collective bride) are resurrected to Jesus in Heaven. |