dodi wrote:So, do you guys think that there were men before Adam?
Dodi, I see no one has been answered your question, so I'll give it a go. In Yada Yahweh Yada explains very well the difference between humans pre-Adam and humans post-Adam. What made Adam different was the Breathe of Life, in Hebrew the word is
neshamah. Yada likes to refer to it as our conscience, the ability to connect with God and be spiritual, the ability to reason and make decisions, to choose between right and wrong. All evidence indicates that mankind before Adam didn't have this advanced ability, this ability would definitely lead to advanced skills, especially that of learning to write and making tools from bronze. I'm not sure about communication, but I assume by using basic logic that advanced communication commenced with Adam. God got him to name the animals (Genesis 2:19-20), which means that Adam has no names for animals prior to walking with God, and therefore we can
confidently assume he didn't communicate using a language and that humans pre-Adam didn't communicate using a language, them being similar to animals and the sounds they make, such as danger warnings, though probably somewhat more advanced but obviously nowhere (not even a fraction) near language of today (of the last 6000 years).
Evidence, as I highlighted in my previous post, shows that pre-Adam man was becoming intelligent as he evolved, but the sudden leap in intelligence is obviously God-given. Yada goes on to say in YY that God took Adam from amongst these early men and placed him specifically in a walled-garden, Eden, and breathed into him the Breathe of Life, that which made him different to all other men.
Hope this helps so far Dodi?
But here I have a question for forum readers, in Ezekiel 1:28 and 8:2 we are told that Ezekiel sees a "figure like that of a man" when he looks up towards God's throne in heaven. Therefore I assume that God was in that form (that looked like a man) prior to the creation of the world. Do you guys think God created the universe specifically like it is in order that through the 15 billion year process there would be a species in a similar physical image, that of a man, standing upright, two legs, two arms, 5 toes per foot, 5 fingers per hand, two eyes, etc.? God would've had to of done some hectic maths to get that right, and I reckon He did. Or do you think that the figure is a prophetic indication of Yahweh's human manifestation of Yahshua, and the figure then only being temporal, or do you think that form is permanent?