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Adam's Geneology
(From Forerunner Commentary)

Genesis 5:1-2  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) These two verse might seem unimportant at first. This is the genealogy of Adam. This is the first place in the Bible that the created man is actually named "Adam." He has before been referred to as Adam, but here he is named Adam. We need to ask, "Is this in reality the genealogy of Adam?" Well, the answer to that is yes and no because the implication of verses 1 and 2 is that God is naming Adam. As the father, He has taken His prerogative and named this man that He created in His likeness "Adam." With God at the head—not Adam, but God—this makes this genealogy God's, which includes Adam and makes God, clearly, the father of all humanity. So this is both the genealogy of God the Creator as well as the man that He created and named "Adam." This genealogy eventually comes to Noah, who had three sons, and each of them married. After the Flood, of course, all of mankind has sprung from Noah. But Noah came from Adam's line, or better, from God's line. Therefore, God is the father of all of humanity! Why is this important? It is another step in showing that mankind has sprung from God! Man is essentially different from all other mortal beings that have been created because of this fact. John W. Ritenbaugh We Shall Be God! (Part 1)

1 Corinthians 15:49  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) Are we sons of Adam? Why do we have this image? Why are we like him? Because we are his offspring! We have been born into this earth, the offspring of Adam, as Acts 17 clearly proves;. One day, we will be born again—this time as a born son of God—and we will bear the image of our Father. We will be just like Him (I John 3:2), even as we are now just like Adam was. We will be God! Incidentally, the word image means "that which corresponds to and reproduces the original." No image—whether it is a reproduction in a flat mirror, a three-dimensional hologram, or a living child of a parent—is an exact replica or image, because each person has his own peculiarities. That is so evident and logical that everybody should be able to understand that nobody can be God exactly as God is God, because each person is an individual personality. We will be a reproduction of Him, but we will be unique—because we are who we are, and He is who He is. He has His life and His history, and we have ours. However, we will still be God. We will be just as much "God" as a baby in the human family is a "human" like its parents. John W. Ritenbaugh The Covenants, Grace and Law (Part 1)

 

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