Were Adam and Eve the first two people created in the beginning of time?

Fact is the Bible is a multi layered book, wherein some subjects have additional information encoded within it. Lilith is one example of that which I have found and there are many others. One important example is the "Nicolaitanes". Curious as to whose deeds GOD hated, I did some research on that one too; and what I found was kinda scary.

Maybe its done by God himself for a good purpose. Just like Jesus used to speak in parables. Why he had to do that, if his intention was to make everybody understand the mystery of the kingdom of God.

Mk 4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all [these] things are done in parables:

According to Jesus Christ there are two categories of people.

Mt 22:14 For many are called, but few [are] chosen.

So the truths of God , the parables, will be only understood by the chosen, they will search for it. Not like the called ones who just believe what is written on the surface. And the chosen ones will not be recognized by the world, because God himself has created them like that.

1C 1:27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
1C 1:28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, [yea], and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
1C 1:29 That no flesh should glory in his presence.

adam was created an hermaphrodite

Guys there is no need to slam the OP. I too always thought Ada and eve were first people on earth, BUT.....what about cavemen and prehistoric era?..or was that after adam and eve? and why doesnt the bible mention dinosuars and cavemen?...just becausethe OP quesrtions something in the bible or wonders about it you all call them not Christian? that's really not fair. i wonder about it too.

First of all, I would like to say that Adam word without article does not obligatorily mean "mankind". It is possible understanding, but not the only.

Really, there is understanding (on deep levels of Torah), that these words speak not about Adam and Hava (Adam Rishon, Adam the 1st), but about Adam Kadmon (Adam Predecessor, metaphysical concept of the intellect in our world). But the direct understanding is also legitime here. According the direct reading, this phrase tells shortly about both Adam and Hava, and in the 2nd chapter this idea is discussed more in details.
The difference between creation (bara) and forming (yatzer) is really important, but it is not a contradiction - it is a hint to deeper levels of the Torah, that creation of the intellectual essence is more fundamental act of bria (creation) that forming a concrete person Adam.

You obviously know traditional explanations of this situation - that there were sisters of Cain and Abel, that it is spoken about their descendants, etc.
But I'd like to point out another understanding. Torah never claims that the "man" in its terns (adam, ben-adam, ish) means "Homo Sapiens Sapiens". Terms of Torah and terms of the modern sciences - are very different terms. All that we can know from the text is that someones, named "adam", "hava" (i.e. "life") and "bnei-adam" ("children of Adam"), were exiled from Gan-Eden into our world, and that we are descendants of them. Moreover, we cannot even be sure that "descendant" should be understood sensu stricto - Torah sometimes says "ben" ("son") about a pupil, not about a physical son. (See Rambam, Moreh Nevuchim.)

So, I consider that Adam and Hava were not the 1st people in sense "Homo Sapiens", or "Cro-Magnons". They appeared among humanity (in terms of modern science) about 6000-10000 years ago, as Torah speaks, as a result of their exiling from Eden. And in terms of Torah, they and their children really were the first "men" and "women" at the planet - when other "Homo Sapiens" were at animal level yet, in comparison with them. Further Adam, Hava, their children and their pupils (very important sense of Hebrew word "ben") created the civilazation.

Please excuse me for bad English.

We actually have too many genes in our body to be from just two people.

job mentions dinosaurs and cavemen

According to some physicists, Time is an illusion that we experience because we see changes which we interpret as time. From change A to change B.
In the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment, it appears that the future affects the past!
This means that events are connected as part of a whole and Time as a concept doesn't exist because from our point of view, how can the present change the past? That would be like time-traveling in the past.

So, as @shittim has said a few times, Creation is more of a word for Revelation or how much we are allowed or revealed to see but we can't fully understand it.

Were Adam and Eve the first two people created in the beginning of time?



Sure. Of course they were. God created mankind and these were the first two. There is no deep mystery or difficulty here. What religion were you raised up in? This is a foundational fact of Christianity and the Word of God.

Cavemen???
Please tell.

I know i know Oyster. I've seen your other posts elsewhere about this topic.
You think the world was created in a precise 24-hour cycle based on an unknown timezone.

Yes, Genesis goes so far as to specify morning/evening light/dark cycles. Its pretty obvious why modern man wants to contort this into his own creation-denying system the cuts God completely out of the picture. They put their own wisdom above that of their Maker.

I don't even know why you even try to use your God-given senses at this point.

I like you, Eli.

I have no idea why...

It must have something to do with your charming ways.

All right. Let's go grab a coffee now even if you deny its existence.

If you knew what my coffee tasted like, you would understand.

I think the brother maybe referring to this passage:

Job 30: 5 They were banished from human society,
shouted at as if they were thieves.
6 They were forced to live in the dry stream beds,
among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
7 They brayed among the bushes
and huddled in the undergrowth.
8 A base and nameless brood,
they were driven out of the land.

'Cave-men' lived at the same time as 'civilized' man. God Bless

Well boil my bowels!!!
I had never seen or heard of this before!!!

"35Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: 36And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: 37They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; 38(Of whom the world was not worthy they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. 39And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: 40God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect."

Hebrews 11

There are still cave dwellers. Some are nice homes made using caves as their subterranean primary structure. There are even underground cities. The cave men/ women mentioned in the chapter of the Bible above are like David who used them for shelter while being pursued under threat of death. The atheists , who were given authority over the sociology departments and grant money to publish their propaganda, brainwashed the world into believing lies. They convinced the majority that cave men were less evolved humanity. They also claim that extinct kinds of reptiles existed millions of years ago. Neither could be further from the truth. The Bible speaks about both in quite a lot of detail.

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