Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses,
even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression,
who is the figure of him that was to come.
Romans 5:14
"Lamoureux is appreciably blunt: “Adam never existed, and this fact has no impact whatsoever on the foundational beliefs of Christianity.”
Lamoureux’s prime hermeneutical ‘bogeyman’, ‘scientific concordism’:
“Scientific concordism is the
assumption that the facts of science
align with the Bible. Stated another
way, it is the assumption that God
revealed scientific facts to the
biblical writers thousands of years
before their discovery by modern
scientists”
before their discovery by modern
scientists”
However, the Bible does not
have to reveal modern scientific
facts in the Bible for it to ‘align’ with
science. It only has to not contradict
empirical fact. Moreover, Lamoureux
believes Jesus’ bodily Resurrection
is a historical fact. But if evolution is
an empirical fact, the notion that dead
bodies don’t reanimate themselves is
a far clearer empirical fact. So why
reject concordism with the textual data
relevant to evolution but embrace it
with Jesus’ Resurrection?" CMI
