This is a man who is respected by many in the PCA and the conservative Reformed world in general. And yet, he has many questions about whether Adam was a real, historical figure. What? Where are the fierce and fearless Reformed “warriors for truth” when you really need them?
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“And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth: And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.”
I’m sure you can substitute “mankind” for Adam here without any problems.
“Sure, if you take Genesis 5 in an extremely literalistic way, it would seem that this ‘historical’ Adam may have lived. But I don’t know–there are just so many open questions to me. I mean who lives 930 years anyway? Surely it must be an allegory of some sort that refers to the evolutionary process. Yeah, that’s the ticket.”
Notice hints of Klineism? When I sat under Longman in Seminary, the ANE was king.
So what does he do with Luke 3:38? If Adam wasn’t a historical man, then what about Jesus?