Saturday, October 8, 2011

Theories: Creation and Humanity

by BlogSpotThinker
October 8, 2011

The Bible appears to record God’s directive to “be fruitful” in multiple contexts. The Genesis 1:20-22 context appears to apply to animals. Genesis 1:27, 28 appears to apply to humanity. Although many appear to interpret the passage as referring specifically to Adam and Eve, there appears not to be any reasonable basis to preclude the interpretation that God created multiple pairs of human beings and issued the procreative challenge to them.

An apparently reasonable interpretation appears to be that the Bible, perhaps, from that point, singles out Adam and Eve from among humanity. A reasonable theory suggesting the reason for such singling out might be that the Bible appears to suggest that Adam and Eve represent the lineage of the nation of Israel to whom, at least, the Old Testament appears to refer.

This theory appears to offer a reasonable possible explanation for an incestuous-less proliferation of humanity. In addition, this theory appears to offer a reasonable possible explanation for another topic of apparent concern regarding the Bible: the apparently two, redundant descriptions of creation. Genesis 1 appears to be suggested to offer one account and Genesis 2 appears to be suggested to offer the second. Perhaps Genesis 1 records the general creation of humanity. Perhaps Genesis 2 records and focuses in on the lineage of Abraham.

The Genesis 2 account appears to begin with the phrase “These are the generations…”, a phrase apparently used in certain recapitulations of Biblical history to show lineage. The Bible’s apparent use of that phrase to preface the second creation account that appears to specify Adam and Eve appears to be supportively consistent with the above theory that appears to suggest the apparently reasonable possibility of God’s creation of multiple pairs of humans.

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