the gap theory (another gap...
) is also the seedbed for this (some variations have US/WE being pre-existent spirit beings dropped into human bodies in a kind of Dispensation/or Earth Age that is purgatory-like....we're kind of here to "fix" the fact the WE were the sons of God/angels who rebelled back there IN THE BEGINNING, and God kinda had to start over - or summink):
Pre-Adamite hypothesis or Preadamism is a hypothesis within theology that humans existed before Adam. This theoretical assumption is contrary to beliefs describing Adam as the first human, as stated in the Bible and the Qur'an. The theory of Preadamism is therefore distinct from the conventional religious belief that Adam was the first human. Preadamism has a long history, probably having its origins in early pagan responses to Abrahamic claims regarding the origins of the human race.
Advocates of this hypothesis are known as "pre-Adamites", as are the humans believed by them to have existed before Adam.
Non-racist pre-Adamite theories have also been held by a number of mainstream Christians such as the Congregational evangelist R.A. Torrey (1856–1928), who believed in the Gap Theory and that Pre-Adamites had survived into the present day. He thus advocated the belief in a local Flood.
More recently, these ideas have been promoted by Kathryn Kuhlman and Derek Prince among the Pentecostals, John Stott among the Anglicans, and Old Earth creationist Hugh Ross.[20]
Immanuel Velikovsky was a believer in Pre-Adamism. He wrote a book called In the Beginning. In the book, Velikovsky describes catastrophes which had occurred before those described in his first book, Worlds in Collision. In the first section of the book, his chapter titled The Pre-Adamite Age discusses Pre-Adamism. He wrote that the "talmudic-rabbinical tradition believed that before Adam was created, the world was more than once inhabited and more than once destroyed". Moreover, he wrote that according to the evidence from many different traditions, Adam and Eve were not a single human pair and there must have been many of them.[21]
Pre-Adamite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
) is also the seedbed for this (some variations have US/WE being pre-existent spirit beings dropped into human bodies in a kind of Dispensation/or Earth Age that is purgatory-like....we're kind of here to "fix" the fact the WE were the sons of God/angels who rebelled back there IN THE BEGINNING, and God kinda had to start over - or summink):Pre-Adamite hypothesis or Preadamism is a hypothesis within theology that humans existed before Adam. This theoretical assumption is contrary to beliefs describing Adam as the first human, as stated in the Bible and the Qur'an. The theory of Preadamism is therefore distinct from the conventional religious belief that Adam was the first human. Preadamism has a long history, probably having its origins in early pagan responses to Abrahamic claims regarding the origins of the human race.
Advocates of this hypothesis are known as "pre-Adamites", as are the humans believed by them to have existed before Adam.
Non-racist pre-Adamite theories have also been held by a number of mainstream Christians such as the Congregational evangelist R.A. Torrey (1856–1928), who believed in the Gap Theory and that Pre-Adamites had survived into the present day. He thus advocated the belief in a local Flood.
More recently, these ideas have been promoted by Kathryn Kuhlman and Derek Prince among the Pentecostals, John Stott among the Anglicans, and Old Earth creationist Hugh Ross.[20]
Immanuel Velikovsky was a believer in Pre-Adamism. He wrote a book called In the Beginning. In the book, Velikovsky describes catastrophes which had occurred before those described in his first book, Worlds in Collision. In the first section of the book, his chapter titled The Pre-Adamite Age discusses Pre-Adamism. He wrote that the "talmudic-rabbinical tradition believed that before Adam was created, the world was more than once inhabited and more than once destroyed". Moreover, he wrote that according to the evidence from many different traditions, Adam and Eve were not a single human pair and there must have been many of them.[21]
Pre-Adamite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
