THE UNITY OF THE HUMAN RACE

There were no pre-Adamites,18 nor were there co-Adamites (contemporaries of Adam), 19 but all men are Adamites, i.e., Adam is the first man and the progenitor of all mankind. This is no theological problem, but a doctrine clearly revealed in Scripture. Gen. 1:26-28: one set of parents; Acts 17:26: “And hath made of one blood all nations of men”; Rom. 5:12: “By one man sin entered into the world.” This is the conclusion also reached by recent anthropologists.20 God did not create the woman independently of Adam, by forming her of the dust and breathing into her the breath of life, but built her out of a part of man, a rib. Woman () is derived from man (), and that according to body and soul.21