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Adam in the New Testament: Mere Teaching Model or First Historical Man? is unavailable, but you can change that!

Denying the historicity of Adam has become increasingly present within evangelical circles. Was Adam the first historical man? Does the answer really matter? And does it affect any important doctrines in the Bible? Carefully examining key passages of Scripture, Versteeg proves that all human beings descended from Adam, the first man. He argues that if this is not true, the entire history of...

Enns’ evolution-determined view of sin may have room for some notion of guilt. But it is difficult to see how that will be anything more than guilt in terms of intrahuman relationships and the violation of standards ultimately set by human beings in seeking to maintain and secure some measure of viable communal order and “domestic tranquility” in the face of an inherently destabilizing evolutionary process. It is hardly guilt coram Deo in any credible sense. Enns says that “we must remain open on
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