Originally posted by Michie
Or are there unborn souls in Heaven waiting for their time here on earth?
That is new age teaching. Our only pre existance was in the DNA of Adam. In Adam was the whole human race.
1 Cor. 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
There may have been cave men or monkey or whatever before Adam, but he was the first to have a living soul.
Accoring to Theophius (150ad) one of the early church fathers, the soul that Adam had was neither temperal or immortal, but it had the potential to be either. If Adam failed God, his soul could perish. But also, God could give him eternal life.
Adam failed God, but we know that Able, one of his sons found favor with God and Enoch the 7th from Adam did not even taste death but was a type of the Bride and was raptured out of here. Just as Elijah was raptured out of here. Although Elihah was a type of Christ.
It is interesting to note that Abraham was willing to offer up his son, because he reckoned that God would raise him up from the dead.
Hebrews 11:19a Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, <B>
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