Figurative use is obvious in the way Adam was described. The formulation used to denote Adam throughout the first three chapters of Genesis is Ha Adam. But that, in Hebrew, is not a personal name at all. It simply means 'the human'. 'Adam' is not used as a given name, to denote a particular individual, until chapter 4. Throughout the stories of the creation and the 'fall', Adam was expressly and deliberately a human.
- The Selfless Gene: Living with God and Darwin, pg 122
Does this mean that we require a newer and better, more literally translated Bible, as it was so oddly inaccurately translated to the point that generations of Christians have been reading a flawed version???!! O.O This is one interesting book~
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