Given his recurring presence in the biblical narrative, the logical and long-term effect of denying the existence of Adam is to weaken the church’s grip on central biblical truths that make a difference in daily life. This is not to say that denying the historical Adam is tantamount to denying the Christian faith. Christians who abandon a traditional commitment to the historical Adam do not necessarily (or immediately) deny the doctrine of original sin, for example, or divorce themselves from the
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