To Christians who aren't creationists

[Drich]

All definitions are provided by: Strong's blue letter bible, lexicon and concordance. If you believe you have a leg up on this reference material then please feel free to contact the editor responsible...IWhat version are you using? I've always got the impression that Strongs is a bit dated unless you're using modern updated versions.

Sources:
Zondervan NASB Exhaustive Concordance 1981
"The Vocabulary Guide to Biblical Hebrew" by Van Pelt and Pratico
Lightcatcher Interlinear Genesis

I can't show the pointing but the 5 most common foms of 'chayah' are as follows:

Het-Yod-He = to live (Q); to live intensely (Pi), caused to live (Hi)
Het-Yod = living (adj) living
Het-Yod-Yod-Mem = lifetime
Het-Yod-He (fs constr) = animal, beast
Het-Yod-Hee (3ms suff) = life

When i followed up with other sources I noticed the distinction was less appearent, so I change this post to the other one you responded to.

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So god noticed the evolution of man and plucked him from the earth and said you look like me and deserve a soul?

So believe this, but this is not what is recorded in the bible. We are told God created man period, in His image, and then placed in the Garden for an undisclosed amount of time. What I am suggesting is that outside the garden God set in motion the evolutionary process that would yield monkey or evolved man.

Why? So when they were cast out of the garden after the fall the species would develop into what it is today.