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Perhaps
the most well-known and easily understood challenge is to the veracity of
scripture. A full exploration of this particular issue would need to make note
of the wide variety of positions that can be defended on the origin,
reliability and interpretation of the scriptures, but an evolutionary
description of history poses some challenge for all position on Biblical
origins and authority. At a minimum it must be admitted that the writers of the
Old and New Testament refer to the personalities in Hebrew history in ways that
suggest they believed they were actual human beings. Of critical importance is
Saint Paul’s 1 Corinthians 15 reference to Jesus as the ‘second Adam,’ and his
emphasis on the importance of believing in the miracle of Jesus’ resurrection
as a factual event. For some commentators this reference can only make sense if
Adam was as historical as Jesus. If Adam was an actual person, the question
then becomes how much of the Genesis creation account surrounding Adam must
also be held to be at least partly historical.
This
is an interesting and complex part of the discussion which unfortunately I must
set aside.
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