Welcome to the Historical Adam Society
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"Historical Adam" is a Christian apologetic that embraces the Genesis narrative concerning Adam and his descendents, and operates completely within the bounds of scientific discovery and historical evidence. This position considers Adam to have been a real historical person, but not to have been the biological progenitor of the entire human race since our species, Homo sapiens, is known from the fossil record to have been living 200,000 years ago. As evidenced by both Genesis and archeological discovery, Adam lived around 5000 to 4000 BC in southern Mesopotamian, present-day Iraq, near the confluence of the four rivers of Eden.
The Bible links Christ with Adam biologically through its genealogies and theologically in Romans, and therefore a historical Adam is important to preserve the integrity of Scripture. While not the first human, Adam was the first in God's covenant line leading to Christ, and began the era of individual accountability. The knowledge of God for all humanity started with the Adamic covenant. It was through one man, Adam, that sin was imputed to the human race, just as grace is dispensationally given by God to followers of Christ. It is through Christ that all become eligible for redemption and are received into the family of believers.
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