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Although the notion of Jinn as pre-Adamites was generally accepted, the idea that other humans lived before the known Adam was controversial. From the mid-ninth century onward the idea appeared that God created several Adams, each of whom presides over an era lasting around 50,000 years.
The Book of Sothis, considered as Pseudo-Manetho by many scholars, provides different figures. One fragment from Pseudo-Manetho dates the reign of the first Egyptian God 36,525 years before Menes (FGrH, #610 F2) and so dates the creation to about 39,575 BC. [12] The ancient Greeks reported similar figures on ancient Egyptian chronology.
C. L. Moore's 1940 story Fruit of Knowledge is a re-telling of the Fall of Man as a love triangle between Lilith, Adam and Eve – with Eve's eating the forbidden fruit being in this version the result of misguided manipulations by the jealous Lilith, who had hoped to get her rival discredited and destroyed by God and thus regain Adam's love.
The Latter Day Saint movement teaches Christ's pre-existence as the first and greatest of the spirit children of God the Father. [23] Among the many churches which separated from the Worldwide Church of God, also referred to as the "Sabbatarian Churches of God" or, more pejoratively, Armstrongites, there is a shared belief in binitarianism, and ...
Since (he reasoned) shmitot existed before man was created, time before Adam and Eve must be measured in divine years, not human years. Psalm 90:4 says, "For a thousand years in thy sight are but like yesterday when it is past", thus one divine day equals 365,250 (assuming a 365.25-day year) human days.
The Eden narrative (the story of Adam and Eve and how they came to be expelled from God's presence) Cain and Abel and the first murder; The book of the toledot of Adam (5:1–6:8) (The Hebrew includes the word "book") the first of two genealogies of Genesis, the Kenites, descendants of Cain, who invent various aspects of civilised life
People lived much longer than those alive today, typically between 700 and 950 years, as reported in the genealogies of Genesis; The Earth contained many more people than it did in 1696. Whiston calculated that as many as 500 million humans may have been born in the antediluvian period, based on assumptions about lifespans and fertility rates ;
The idea was named after the title of an 1857 book, Omphalos by Philip Henry Gosse, in which Gosse argued that for the world to be "functional", God must have created the Earth with mountains and canyons, trees with growth rings, Adam and Eve with fully grown hair, fingernails, and navels [2] (ὀμφαλός omphalos is Greek for "navel"), and ...