(January 16, 2015 at 2:26 am)Drich Wrote: Evolved man or "monkey man" is man without a soul, and In the Garden Man created in the image of God, would be man with a soul. That would leave room for whole complete fossil record that could not biblically be reconciled. It also explains the city Cain moved to and the wives and husbands the children of Adam and Eve took for themselves. (They intermingled with monkey man/woman and pass their gift onto their children.)
I used to believe this when I was in college.
I was always fairly "scientific minded", and it bothered me any time I'd find incongruities in the Bible. I would typically strive to remove the cognitive dissonance as quickly as possible by coming up with as minimum of an ad hoc rationalization as I could. As soon as I thought the problem was reconciled, I'd stop thinking about it, lest I find more holes in my new belief. It was very dishonest of me.
So, I was quite happy believing that there could have been "humans" before Adam and Eve without souls, and that the six "days" of creation weren't literal days... and nearly ten years later, I took the time to read the order of the days in Genesis one and realized they were all out of order. Luckily, I noticed this within a month or two of me eventually letting go of my faith, so I didn't waste any more time trying to further rationalize it. Lucky me!
