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.Without this Adamic family genealogy, and its relation-ship to the biblical covenants, the coming of Jesus Christ losesmeaning in terms of covenantal application and cohesiveness.Before this will be evidenced, there are other preliminary andnecessary connections that must be made from the genealogy ofthe Adamic race.Adam and AnthroposA common assumption among both Protestants and Catholicsis that whenever the word man or men is used it refers to allpeople of all races.Of course, this is understandable if one believesthat Adam is the father of all races.Thus, the biblical applicationthat all men are under sin and death (Romans 5:12), that they arecommanded to repent (Acts 17:30), and that God desires that theyall be saved (1 Timothy 2:4), is seen universally.However, if theBible reads that Adam is the father of only one race, then man or men must apply in a more narrow sense to Adam s descendants.The question then is, Does the word man or men applyexclusively to Adam and his physical descendants as one race, orAdam: The Father of One Race 130does it apply inclusively to all races? As a point of introduction inanswer to this question, the biblical evidence presented willcompare the word for man or men and Adam translated6from the Hebrew word adam (Strong s #120) with the word man or men translated from the Greek (LXX) which isanthropos.Several categories of evidence will now be examined.First, the comparison between the Hebrew Masoretic text andthe Greek LXX reveals that Adam is directly identified with man. For example, note the parallel verses between the Hebrew(from the NASB) and Greek (from the Brenton) translation.Comparison of theNASB Translation from the Hebrew text andthe Benton Translation from the LXX Greek textGenesis 1:26Then God said, Let Us make man (Hebrew adam) inOur image, according to Our likeness.And God said, Let us make man (Greek anthropos)according to our own image and likeness.Genesis 1:27And God created man (Hebrew adam) in His ownimage.And God made man (Greek anthropos), according tothe image of God.Genesis 2:7Then the Lord God formed man (Hebrew adam) ofdust from the ground.and man (Hebrew adam)became a living being.And God formed the man (Greek anthropos) of thedust of the earth.and the man (Greek anthropos)became a living soul.Adam: The Father of One Race 131Genesis 2:18-19Then the Lord God said, It is not good for the man(Hebrew adam) to be alone.And out of the groundthe Lord God formed every beast of the field and everybird of the sky, and brought them to the man (Hebrewadam) to see what he would call them.And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man(Greek anthropos) should be alone. And Godformed yet farther out of the earth all the wild beasts ofthe field, and all the birds of the sky, and he broughtthem to Adam (Greek Adam), to see what he wouldcall them.Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam (Hebrew adam).In the day when God created man (Hebrew adam), He made him in the likeness of God.This is the genealogy of men (Greek anthropos, in theplural form, anthropov) in the day in which God madeAdam (Greek Adam), in the image of God he madehim.In the above comparisons, in almost every case the Greek LXXsubstitutes the word anthropos for adam in the Hebrew text.In afew instances, the Greek translation of Adam (as Adam) isequivalent to the Hebrew word adam.This comparison showsthat the Adam of God s creation is the equivalent of man,and both Adam (adam) and man (anthropos) are createdin God s image and likeness.In the New Testament the Greek term anthropos is also identi-fied with the image of God (Romans 1:23 and 1 Corinthians 11:7)consistent with the Old Testament renderings.What is most revealing is the LXX Greek text and Englishtranslation of Genesis 5:1 that identifies the genealogy of menAdam: The Father of One Race 132(anthropov) as the descendants of Adam. The context of thegenealogy of Adam in Genesis 5 makes this unmistakably clearthat men are the lineage of Adam.Second, the New Testament consistently speaks of Adamand man as one and the same.For example, compare Romans5:12 and 14:Therefore, just as as through one man (anthropos) sinentered into the world, and death through sin, and sodeath spread to all men & (anthropous, plural ofanthropos)Nevertheless death reigned from Adam (GreekAdam) until Moses, even over those who had not sinnedin the likeness of the offense of Adam & (Greek Adam)Here, the one man and men (v.12), through which sin anddeath began and spread, corresponds to sin ( the offense of Adam v.14) and death ( from Adam until Moses v.14).Therefore,sin and death began with Adam, or the one man, and spread from Adam until Moses, or the men, which further reveals asingle family genealogy of the Adamic race. Adam is man oranthropos.Another example comes from 1 Corinthians 15:21-22:For since by a man (Greek anthropos) came death.For as in Adam (Greek Adam) all die.From these two consecutive verses man (v.21) is identified with Adam (v.22).By man, or Adam, came death, and all those in Adam, that is, the race of Adam, die. Once again Adammeans man.In 1 Corinthians 15:45, Adam (Greek Adam) is identifiedas the first man (Greek anthropos):So also it is written, The first man (Greek anthropos),Adam (Greek Adam), became a living soul.Adam: The Father of One Race 133Although Adam as the first man primarily means former inrespect to Jesus Christ as the last Adam, a secondary meaningcan be applied.That is, if Adam was the first man, then Adammust be the father of men.Thus, men are exclusively of theAdamic race.There are other examples linking the terms Adam (GreekAdam) and man (Greek anthropos) such as 1 Timothy 2:12-14.Jesus Christ, who is of Adamic lineage, many times called Himself the son of man, that is, anthropos (Matthew 8:20; Mark 8:31;Luke 9:56; John 12:34; and so forth).Thus, He is both man andof Adam s race.The evidence of Scripture proves that man or men (trans-lated from anthropos) is the same as Adam or the descendants ofAdam.Thus, from a biblical context, man or men does notconnote a universal application to all races, but only to the Adamicrace.Adam was the first father of men, and the kind or race ofmen is called mankind.Adam and NationsLike the biblical word man or men, the word translated nations is also presumed to refer to all the nations made up of allthe races of the globe [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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