Adam the First and the Last: Responding to Modern Attacks on Adam and Christ

Many are familiar with liberal theologians explaining why they do not believe in the literal, historical creation of Adam; but of greater concern is how this is taking hold of some of those who call themselves "evangelical". The 1st part deals with mankind's first parents; the remainder is about Christ - "The Last Adam", culminating with "In Adam or in Christ? Gospel Implications". As the quotations and the numerous references at the end of each chapter show, Simon Turpin is very widely read, being well acquainted with almost every contention against Genesis, such as the doctrine of the Fall of man having been forced upon Genesis 3 - which is unsustainable in the light of Romans 5:12, and One might wonder why some have strayed from the plain teaching of Scripture. Surely one instance is to be found in the various attempts to reconcile creation with evolution by asserting that God created the world through evolution. The obvious problem quite simply is that Genesis doesn't say that; neither is there anything anywhere in Scripture that remotely supports it. Indeed, as some have pointed out, the fundamental foundation of evolution of the survival of the fittest, with the weakest to the wall, hardly equates with a God of love, who saw that everything that He made was "very good". Undoubtedly the growing reluctance to uphold the truth of creation has contributed to the failure of some churches confidently to re-assert the Biblical teaching on Marriage.