Subject: Did Adam die lost? |
Bible Note: That's a good point about the name. Do you have a reference that you could show me where you got that information? I ask because I looked up the names of Cain, Abel, and Seth in the original Hebrew. To me, the meanings don't imply what you mentioned. Cain, name of 1st child, (an affinity to "a sense of fixity, lance, spear"). Abel, son of Adam, (same as emptiness, or vanity). Seth, substituted, appoint. I do agree there were many more who were saved by faith in ancient times than just those Paul listed. But I'm not sure we can assume that Adam was saved since the Bible doesn't say he was. I think Adam and Eve definitely told all they knew about the Lord God, and their time in the garden of Eden to their sons and daughters. [Please note that God even spoke with Cain in Genesis 4.] But talking the talk, and walking the walk aren't the same thing. I'm not trying to "judge" Adam, but another thing just crossed my mind. It wasn't until after Seth gave birth to Enosh that it says "then men began to call on the name of the Lord" (4:26). Adam would have been about 235 years old at that time, when men "began" to call upon the name of the Lord. Was Adam among them? I don't know. But I guess I can't assume that he was for two reasons. 1)The Bible doesn't say he was; and 2)after having a walking/talking relationship with God in the garden, he apparently did not "call on His name" after leaving the garden which was AT LEAST the first 150 years they lived outside the garden. |