In Adam’s life span, he had many more children and his sons became fathers and “ the father of Lamech, Methuselah lived 782 years and had other sons and daughters. Adam lived a very long life and did not die until he was 930 years old (Gen 5:3). We must assume that if they had not sinned, they would have had eternal, physical life because they had no genetic flaws, there was no disease, no health problems, no need for doctors or hospitals…there was no sin and so the human specimen was about as perfect as there could have possibly been (Gen 3:22). When Adam and Eve were created, they were perfect until the day that they sinned. These shorter life spans are due to the cumulative effects of sin, sin being the wages or what is paid to humans as a result of our sins and the wages of sin is death (Rom 6:23). Before the flood, the life span of humans was drastically longer. The Psalmist gives the average age of humans as “ seventy years–or eighty, if we have the strength” (Psalm 90:10). We could call it a devolution and it is due to the effects of sin. Contrary to evolution, where life spans should supposedly get longer and the specie gets stronger, human life spans have been devolving. The only reason we live so long today is due to medical science and improved healthcare. There is a clear indication that after the flood of Noah, the multiple century life spans of humans ended. With the enormous life spans of humans, there would be a sufficient population of humans for which Cain could find a wife. And he named them “Mankind” when they were created.” Not one thing is said about or even hinted that there was a long period of time or that they evolved however, this does not necessarily mean that the earth is only 6,000 years old. He created them male and female and blessed them. There is no way to interpret this metaphorically but only literally since it is repeated in Genesis 5:1-2, “ When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. Jesus quoted Genesis 1:27 and so He must believe in the literal creation account. Even by an evolutionistic standard and deist view of God (deists believe in a hands-off, observing-only God), God made them and Eve “ became his wife.” When a name is ascribed to Adam and Eve, we must conclude that they did not evolve over eons of time from a single-celled amoeba because he “ made them male and female”, “ at the beginning.” A single-celled amoeba is neither male nor female but asexual. Since God created or made them male and female, and they were given names, then this disputes the claims of evolution. There is no doubt that Jesus believed in the creation because He said in Matthew 19:4-5, “ Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” Jesus is referring to Genesis 1:27 when God made Adam from the dust of the ground and also Eve. Surely He believes that the Word of God is without error because Jesus mentioned the flood of Noah as He said in Matthew 24:37 “ As in the days of Noah, so shall also be the coming of the Son of Man be.” Jesus also believed the story of Jonah and the great fish as He said in Matthew 12:39 that “ A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a miraculous sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” Since Cain and Abel were Adam and Eve’s first two children, how could Cain have found a wife? Where did Cain’s wife come from? Does this conflict with the story of Creation? What in the Bible can help us to solve this seemingly contradiction? Did Jesus Believe in Creation or Evolution?ĭoes Jesus believe in evolution? The Bible clearly indicates that Jesus believed in the creation story because there are many Scriptures that say that “ All things were made by Him and without Him was not anything made that was made” (John 1:3 and also Eph 3:9, Cols 1:16-17, Rev 14:7, etc.).
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