Evangelicals
No Longer Trust Bible Account Of Adam And Eve
Let's go back to the beginning — all the way to Adam
and Eve, and to the question: Did they exist, and did
all of humanity descend from that single pair?
According to the Bible (Genesis 2:7), this is how
humanity began: "The Lord God formed man of the
dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life; and man became a living soul."
God then called the man Adam, and later created Eve
from Adam's rib. Polls by Gallup and the Pew Research
Center find that four out of 10 Americans believe this
account. It's a central tenet for much of conservative
Christianity, from evangelicals to confessional
churches such as the Christian Reformed Church. But
now some conservative scholars are saying publicly
that they can no longer believe the Genesis account.