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The Generations of Heaven and Earth: Adam, the Ancient World, and Biblical Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

New science has surprised many by showing, contrary to received wisdom, that a real Adam and Eve could have lived amongst other humans in historical times and yet be the ancestors of every living person, as traditional Christianity has always taught. This theory was first published in book form in 2019, but Jon Garvey, familiar with it from its early days, believes it helps confirm the Christian...

and the imagery, the actual “factual” input into the account is simply what he knows by experience of the world around him. And so, in my view, he writes a phenomenological account in terms of temple building imagery. For those who reject the temple inauguration theory, then other models like the framework hypothesis make equal sense of inspiration. Spiritual insight, rather than new historical or scientific facts, is the content of inspiration. Turning now to the Adam story, I mentioned in the last
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