What are you meaning by this so that I'm on the same page with you? Are you only meaning Adam and Eve or are you meaning God created more ppl than just those two?
Genesis 1:26-28
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let
them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he
them. And God blessed
them, and God said unto
them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."
God did not create Eve on day six. God took Eve out of Adam. Can any one explain who the
them were? I accept Scripture as written, literally. No sense in turning something into a metaphor to explain the words away.
Is there a difference between God
created them male and female and God putting Adam to sleep and
made Eve out of Adam's rib?
"And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man."
How can there be them, but yet Adam was lonely?
"And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it."
I think God took Adam and separated him from other sons of God, and placed him in the Garden alone for a reason. A royal priesthood.
Jesus said:
"That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar."
Why would Jesus go all the way back to the Garden to include those who served as priest? Why not start somewhere else? Why point out it was the serpent who corrupted what it was to be a priest?
"Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?"
Many claim Adam was alone, and only he and Eve were created. That is not what Genesis 1 and 2 claim in light of other Scripture. Adam was alone, because God separated him from other sons of God and placed him as the keeper of the Garden where he would meet with God on a daily basis. The first temple on earth. At that time without sin, and without an alter. Yes there were other sons of God on earth, and they had multiplied just as God told them to. It was Adam that brought sin into the world, and corrupted the sons of God. It was Adam that disobeyed and became the Father of sinful humanity.
It was Moses who wrote about sin telling us the history of fallen man. Moses wrote it from a fallen perspective, not as Adam being a glorious son of God. Faith was already at work before the Law. The Law was given to point out the strength of sin, not diminish what faith was. The original temple on earth was banned and lost in the destruction of the Flood. It became Paradise at some point, only God knows when. Moses was tasked with setting up a new covenant and tabernacle on earth with a holy of holies. Jacob was the new nation singled out to be a royal priesthood.
You asked why I thought there were other people. I have pointed out that Adam was called out and placed in the Garden as a royal priesthood like Jacob and his family was called out as keepers of the OT covenant.
I think the 1000 year reign on earth is about Adam's resurrected offspring, not the church, starts out without sin and Satan. But not as sons of God. The physical is still the physical on earth for the last 1000 years. Jesus is presenting earth as spotless, minus those who rebel, as all humanity is still presented with a choice to follow Satan or God. God's plan was always to have mankind multiply and fill the earth. Exodus 20:8-10 points out the extent of sin.
"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God"
Sin is limited by God and has a definite end. Adam allowed sin in with disobedience. After the Second Coming sin is at an end. Yet during this future 1000 years, disobedience is not tolerated, but still ends in death. Death is the last enemy. The sons of God were the them created on the 6th day. Only Adam's family survived because Noah had faith and obeyed God by building an ark. That world was destroyed by the Flood just like Peter claims in 2 Peter 3. The same place where the Holy Spirit inspired Peter to point out the ignorance of not acknowledging a day with the Lord is as a 1000 years. Multiple sons of God on day six. Multiple Days of the Lord. Multiple 1000 year periods of God's grace at work. A limited period of 6 days, 6000 years of Adam's punishment. Not any more time than God took to create reality to begin with. At least using the day equals 1000 years. Not that each day of creation was 1000 years. Adam would not be punished for a week. Adam would be punished for the human side of the equation, 6000 years.
