Did God use evolution to create life

[Jason B]

Originally Posted by pelathais

I don't quite follow what you are saying, asking or telling me what I believe here.

I believe that all human beings are literally descended from one single breeding pair as described in Genesis 1, and Genesis 2. The accounts of creation in Genesis are a compilation of different original works that were composed by Hebrew writers during the pre-Exilic Kingdom period of Israel's history. These accounts were redacted (compiled together with a supporting narrative) in the time of Ezra the Scribe as an etiology for the claims to the land that the returning Exiles were seeking to assert.

"Adam" can be a "metaphoric term for humanity" (Psalm 8:4, Hebrew = "what is 'adam' that thou art mindful of him...?"). However, modern genetic studies have clearly proven that all of the human race alive today (and alive in antiquity) descended from a single breeding pair of "parents.' Literally, as in "And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare..."

That's how you and I ultimately got here, Brother.

Pel, I wasn't trying to tell you what you believe. I was asking WHY you believe in the literal account of the creation of Adam and Eve, yet don't take the creation account as literal. I don't think you can seperate them.

Am I understanding you correctly that you believe the creation account is not original to Genesis but was put in AFTER the Babylonian Captivity? Therefore it is not part of Moses' writings, but an interpolation to the Hebrew scriptures?!