Did we all descend from “Adam”? Is Creation a myth?

Well, this might shock you but we all ought to understand that God reveals himself not from a vacuum but from and within a particular setting.

The reptile known as a snake has suffered stereotypes and stigma because the ancient cults and belief systems chose to use it symbolically and literary in their worship systems. A snake is a symbol of good and bad in many ritualistic beliefs in the Ancient Near East (Semitic religions).

That is how the snake ends up in the story of Genesis 3 and its natural physiology (moving on its belly) being attributed to a curse and yet we all know that it was created like that in the first place.

You may ask why a snake? The chronicler chose the snake, of all other reptiles, because of its astuteness and craftiness. And that is, however, since it had attracted a reputation of representing the devil.

We all ought to read the Eastern and Asian beliefs with Dragons and speaking serpent-like gods and we will have no trouble seeing why in an Old Testament time where there is no Satan but un-appeased gods, we have reptiles characterizing Satan.

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ADAM. “ADAMAH” means what is made of dust or from the ground and the personification of this. The word ADAMAH literally means human race so it was not Mr and Mrs Adam (couple) from whom we all came. If it was so then the Adam and Eve story would be more like that of the Baganda tribe origin of KINTU and NAMBI.

But the THEOLOGY in the MYTHOLOGY of Genesis 2-3 tells us that God himself created man and he never spoke him into existence like any other created thing but rather, God created the first man of every race and structure. We must understand that Africans, Asians, Caucasians, Red Indians. etc were originally created and did not evolve. Neither were some races cursed as some poor Bible scholars want us to believe that Africans were a result of one of the cursed sons of Noah.

What evolves about man is not his physiology but rather his language and that is why we have the tower of Babel Genesis 11. We must appreciate the fact that we are who we are physically due to creation not due to any other unfortunate factor. Am personally still questioning myself whether we have a standard “good” in height (tall, moderate or pygmy) or it is just a sociological construct that we have come up with an acceptable standard height or God has his too. Science, so far, has not come with a solution to that. We all can see how that is more of an original design and plan as opposed to attributing it to sin.

I don’t know which is the right skin colour or pigmentation – African, South Sudan, Asian, Ethiopian, Somalian, Caucasian, Spaniard, Brazillian. Whatever the case we all know the consequences of bleaching and it has also been proven that you can only affect and effect colour by involving different colours in sperms (have sex with a white person if you are black for a light skinned kid) but no easy surprises if both of you are the same colour.

The point I am making is that the writer of Genesis gives us a theology in his mythology that on the sixth-day, God created all sorts and the kinds of people we have today. And then he continues with one line of people for purposes of tracing his own kind (Jews) and how they came about. Otherwise, the world was inhabited by other kinds of people all over.

When you read Genesis 2-3 we have a couple without children.

Genesis 4: We have this couple with two kids. However, one is bad and the other is good. The bad one kills the good one and the bad one is cursed. When you trace the first polygamous man (Lameck), he was a child of the bad one (Cain).

Genesis 5: God replaces the good son (Abel) with another good one (Seth), and from him, we are going to get CHILDREN OF GOD while those who are not from his line are CHILDREN OF MEN.

And that is what we have in Genesis 6. The sin of intermarrying and mingling god with men brings about floods and the entire race is wiped out. However, God entrusts one man Noah (from Seth) with the salvation plan (the ark).

Genesis 7 is about the floods. Whether they were cosmic or not, it doesn’t matter. What matters is that God must be worshipped. If he is not, we are in trouble. For those who worship him, there is an ark and those who don’t, there are floods and consuming waters.

By the time the floods are over, Noah is spoilt and the lineage of Seth is gone. It is translated into the generations of the sons of Noah in Genesis 10.

Now the term THE WHOLE WORLD of Genesis 11 applies to the “whole world” which was covered by the floods, not the whole world as we know it today. So the reason why the whole world of Genesis 11 spoke the same language was that they were all Noahians (all from Noah). What do you expect?

By the time they are confused in speech and instead of worshipping they decide to reach God by the TOWER OF BABEL project, God no longer has a representative race like he had in (Abel, Seth and Noah).

And in Genesis 12 he is going to pick an Arkadian man, Abram son of Terah, and the story continues.

I congratulate you if you have read to this point. Now do yourself a favour and read it again, you will be sorted.

Pr. I. T. White