I reached out to Kent Hovind’s organization to invite him to comment on Genealogical Adam - - either here at PeacefulScience.Org, or at least over the phone.
The Reverend returned my call and and was most courteous and gracious … though his overall response to God using Evolution AND Special Creation to execute his designs was an energetic “seems ridiculous”.
I mentioned the highpoints of @swamidass work, including Eve being the (or a) mother of all human life by the time of the birth of Jesus…
… and
that Adam’s role of bringing sin and death in Paul’s Romans 5 was preserved.
Maybe he will eventually visit here to dispute the case personally!
As @Guy_Coe notes, there is even dispute about this. God does not declare that Eve is mother of all the living, but Adam in the context it is a rebellious statement. There is no reason to think that Adam is correct in this assessment.
It also works (though hardly necessary) to understand it as “becomes” mother of all the living. Notice also that Hovind must insert “human life” rather than merely “living”. Genesis does not restrict it to merely human life, so we all have to restrict it some how down by context, because Eve is clearly not the mother of all our pets and livestock, even though they are all living.
I don’t see the rebelliousness. And in context, the text is clearly implying that the name is true. Even if the words aren’t put into God’s mouth, if the text implies that it’s true anyone who accepts inspiration of the bible must accept it as true.
Certainly. But becomes the mother or becomes a mother? “Becomes” doesn’t settle that argument.
That’s not an insertion. That’s an explicit statement of the clear meaning of the text. Hovind didn’t have to insert it at all, because we would have known the meaning without that insertion.
All that aside, are there grounds for assuming a, not the?
Isnt it implicitly so? Did the author think Eve could be the mother of anything else?
As a former Latin student, i had to concur. Latin grammar is filled with implied individuals and groups… when the key term (singular or plural) may be an adjective - - without a formal noun of any kind!
For example: the use of the feminine form of “cold” can mean perfectly well:
“the cold women” or the “cold girls” or the “cold females”.
