Power Read The Bible In 60 Days With Jeff AndersonSample

Day 2

ADAM’S BIRTHDAY

[Scheduled Reading: Genesis 24-39. Usually my comments will match up with the day's read. On rare occasion, it will not. That's the case for today while we're still building a big-picture foundation.]

“When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth... When Seth had lived 105 years, he fathered Enosh... When Enosh had lived 90 years, he fathered Kenan...” (Genesis 5:3, 6, 9)

There’s growing debate about the historical placement of Adam. How long ago was he on earth? Is Adam even real? Perhaps Adam and Eve are figurative characters?

Not in my Bible. I’m pretty much a literalist with the Bible. I take as much as I can at face value.

Why? Because of Chapters like Genesis 5. What appears to be a poetic rambling of “begats” (that’s King James talk for “fathered”) is actually the key to the historical dating of Adam.

From Adam to Noah are ten generations. A total of 1,656 years to the flood of Noah (go ahead, add them up).

It’s this passage, along with the chronology in Genesis 11 (and other passages), that helps us to date the approximate 4,000 years  of Old Testament history.

I have one simple question for us. If Adam and Eve were not real characters, what’s the point of passages like Genesis 5? Perhaps so we can have confidence in the dating of Biblical history.

Can you believe we're almost through Genesis already? I know, we just started! And that's how it is with the 60-day reading journey. 

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