By Allan Cornford
Copyright © 2023 Allan Cornford. (Standard Copyright License.) All rights reserved. Independently Published through KDP
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Genesis 1:26-27
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it:
for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Genesis 2:17
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: Genesis 3:4
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. Genesis 5:5
Adam was at once extremely intelligent and blessed with the gift of tongues’.
For he could converse with his Maker immediately and named all of the animals and birds.
It could rightly be said that he was the first ‘king of the earth’, for he was given full dominion over it.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Genesis 1:26
But who exactly was Adam?
For apart from Jesus the Christ, Adam is the only individual in the entire Bible to be personally named as being a ‘son of God’.
Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God. Luke 3:38
In the Old Testament, the term ‘Son of God’ (singular) is used exclusively of the manifest person of Christ:
He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. Daniel 3:25
and ‘sons of God’ (plural) used exclusively of angelic beings.
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. Genesis 6:2
Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. Job 1:6
Because Jesus is the ONLY Begotten Son of God, or the only son ever to be born of God, then reason demands that Adam and the celestial beings were the sons of God via direct creation.
Not one single angel was ever begotten, for all were created.
For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee?
And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? Hebrews 1:5
Adam was totally unique, for he was the only person in the entire history of this world, to have been a direct creation of God.
Adam’s offspring included the rest of us have arrived here via procreation.
Hence where mortal man is concerned, Adam is the only person named in the entire Bible, as being a ‘son of God’.
Adam alone was directly created in the image and likeness of God, and the original ‘image’ is long gone.
By natural birth not one of us has been born as a son of God, but as a son or daughter of man.
Neither are we born by natural birth into the kingdom of God, but into a kingdom of spiritual darkness.
A world (age) of which Satan is god.
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 2 Corinthians 4:4
Adam’s own offspring included all of mankind have arrived in this world via procreation and born of water (the womb) in the image and likeness of their fallen human father.
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth. Genesis 5:3
Seth, in the Abrahamic religions, was the third son of Adam and Eve. The Hebrew Bible names two of his siblings (although it also states that he had others): his brothers Cain and Abel. According to Genesis 4:25, Seth was born after Abel’s murder by Cain, and Eve believed that God had appointed him as a replacement for Abel.
Jesus Christ of course, is also unique, yet unlike each individual angel and Adam, he wasn’t created but was begotten of God.
Hence over the entire history of the Cosmos, Jesus is the ONLY Son ever to be begotten or born of God.
He was named JESUS by an angel whilst in his mother’s womb and was conceived of the Holy Ghost.
But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife:
for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS:
for he shall save his people from their sins. Matthew 1:20-21
He was the Saviour from the moment of conception, for he was Christ the Lord on the day of His birth.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. Luke 2:11
No man was involved in his arrival, for he entered the world via the portal of the womb of a virgin.
Though born of water, God was his Father, not his Creator.
Jesus came to this death-ridden world, NOT in the likeness and image of God.
But as the image of God:
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 2 Corinthians 4:4
and in the likeness of man.
But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: Philippians 2:7
ADAM:
by direct creation in the image and likeness of God.
Hence a ‘son of God’.
ALL OTHERS:
Via procreation, born in the image and likeness of a human father.
Hence a ‘son of man’.
JESUS CHRIST:
Born of a virgin (without procreation) both in the image of God, and the likeness of man.
Hence, because Mary his mother was of the lineage of Adam via Seth to Noah to King David, Jesus the ‘last Adam’, was both ‘son of man/David’, and Son of God.
Temple and Light
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 1 Corinthians 3:16
Since the resurrection of Jesus, this verse applies only to those born of water AND of the Spirit.
Yet Adam’s created body was designed as a temple, and he was indwelt not only by his own spirit, but also by the Spirit of God.
It could perhaps be said that as a man, he was an expression of the glory of God, and with full dominion over the earth.
But from the moment he disobeyed God, he became ’empty’ of God, for he died that day in the spiritual sense and in the physical sense became subject to death.
The temple was defiled and the Spirit of God departed, leaving Adam physically alive, but spiritually dead.
Part of him ‘died’ on that fateful day, just as God had warned, and although he continued to live for many hundred years, physical death ever awaited him.
And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years:
and he died. Genesis 5:5
As the last Adam:
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. 1 Corinthians 15:45
Jesus came to restore what the first Adam lost.
On one occasion, to give them a glimpse of his glory, who he truly was, and of things yet to come, Jesus took three of his disciples aside, and transformed himself before their very eyes, to appear as a figure of light.
And was transfigured before them:
and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. Matthew 17:2
God is the Father of lights:
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. James 1:17
and believers in Christ are described as lights in a spiritual sense.
But Scripture also informs us that at the resurrection, our lowly bodies which are currently subject to death, will be changed in an instant to become immortal and just like His glorious body.
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. Philippians 3:21
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day:
we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 1 Thessalonians 5:5
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:
for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 1 Corinthians 15:52
Flesh and Bone
After Jesus had risen from the dead and first appeared to his disciples, they were scared half-witless, thinking they’d seen a ghost or a spirit.
By showing them his wounds, Jesus assured his friends that not only was he very much alive, but unlike a spirit, his body was comprised of flesh and bone.
Yet he was able to travel effortlessly and appear and disappear at will.
He could go unrecognized yet could also eat and drink and sit with his disciples and talk.
Although his resurrection body appeared to be natural or physical, in truth it was supernatural, a spiritual body consisting of flesh and bone, but no longer bound by the physical laws.
Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself:
handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. Luke 24:39
For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. Ephesians 5:30
There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual (not spirit) body.
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.
There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 1 Corinthians 15:44
Jesus’ claim to be flesh and bone is as simple as it is profound.
Simple, because his flesh and bone body was now bloodless.
Profound, for his blood had been shed to atone for the sins of mankind, and because Scripture cannot be broken, even Jesus could not inherit the kingdom of God as flesh and blood.
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 1 Corinthians 15:50
Jesus, the last Adam, was put to death whilst in his natural body of flesh and blood but was raised from the dead as a spiritual body of flesh and bone (of which we are members).
The first Adam who had once declared to be flesh and bone (a spiritual body), died spiritually and became a natural body of flesh and blood.
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Genesis 2:23
God’s expectation of Adam as a husband was the same then as it is now; that he love his wife to the extent that he would willingly lay down his own life for her sake.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; Ephesians 5:25
Jesus died for the sake of his bride!
And husbands are asked to love their wives in like manner.
When reasoning from the Scriptures, it is my firm conviction, that Adam and Eve as a direct creation of God, and made in his image and likeness, were supernatural beings of light.
For the light of Christ flowed from the heart of the temple within and coursed through the body of flesh and bone.
From the moment they disobeyed God and became subject to death, the Spirit of God departed, and the light instantly turned into blood.
Remember, God can change the body in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:
for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 1 Corinthians 15:52
It’s often been said that whereas Eve was deceived into partaking of ‘the fruit’, Adam was not deceived, but had been given the choice, but I strongly suspect it wasn’t that cut and dried.
After all, said and done, being fully aware of the consequence, why would Adam willfully choose to disobey God?
Yes, I’m sure he was presented with a choice, but I suspect the choice he made was born out of love, and made under sudden and extremely difficult circumstances, rather than a premeditated deliberate act of disobedience to God.
Remember, the serpent/Satan was:
- more subtle
- crafty
- cunning
than any beast of the field, and certainly more than a match for an innocent woman.
He knew that the onus was upon man, and right from the outset, his sights were set upon Adam.
But he spotted the weakness of a tender heart and therefore used Eve in order to get to his prey.
When toying with Eve, Satan not only accused God of being a liar, but also of putting a restraint upon her.
The enemy blatantly twisted things around.
‘You will not die’
he said,
‘but will be enlightened with knowledge and hence become as the gods.’
And you really think God doesn’t know this’?
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Genesis 3:4-5
Adam did not choose as such to disobey God, but his wife had become mortal.
What might he have witnessed?
A totally distraught, inconsolable wretch, standing weeping and naked before him?
As her husband, what should he do?
Remain immortal?
Or be united with his wife?
Adam most likely, stepped from immortality into mortality and ‘died’ for the sake of his Bride!
It could even be said that ‘the lights went out’, and this sudden transformation from a being of light to a mortal, exposed their nakedness and caused their shame.
As flesh and blood, and empty of God, our original parents were cast out from the garden of Eden and permanently excluded from the kingdom of God.
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 1 Corinthians 15:50
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. Genesis 3:7
So [God] drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. Genesis 3:24
The deception instigated by Satan, not only caused the downfall of Adam, but introduced sin and death to all of mankind.
By default, the god who held the power of death, had set himself up as the ‘god of this world’.
The Serpent entered the Garden via the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. (Gnosticism)
The scriptures indicate this occurred on the very same day Adam and Eve were created.
God created man in his own image on the Sixth day, placed him in the Garden of Eden, gave him a wife to cherish, and effectively told Adam and Eve to do what husbands and wives do naturally.
Make love often, have many children, and restore the earth to its former fullness.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:
and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Genesis 1:28
This did not happen immediately, for their first union as husband and wife did not take place until after they were banished from the Garden.
Cain and Abel were not conceived in an earthly paradise, but in the cruel and fallen world beyond Eden.
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. Genesis 4:1
Every indication points to Adam and Eve being cast out around sunset on the very day they were created.
Their time in the garden was extremely short-lived indeed.
The popular Serpent-seed doctrine by the way, where Satan had sex with Eve and became Cain’s literal father, is occult myth.
Whilst it’s as good as certain that Cain and Abel were twins, Adam alone was the father of both.
Eve was not impregnated by both her husband as well as the serpent, which produced twins, each with a different father.
The serpent-seed doctrine is partly based on the assumption that the garden which God planted eastward in Eden, for the benefit of Adam, is one and the same as Eden, the garden of God.
For the trees which grew in the latter, are identified as being personal entities.
Based on this wrong assumption, adherents of the serpent-seed doctrine, believe that Adam and Eve were just two of many humans on earth at the time.
For there were other ”trees” in the garden of Eden, which they wrongly assume to be other persons.
They also believe the word ”eat” to have a sexual implication.
Having been commanded not to eat [have a sexual relationship] with the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, are we then to believe that God gave Adam and Eve the freedom to eat [have a sexual relationship with] the other ”trees” [persons] in the garden?
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: Genesis 2:16
Furthermore, whilst she had been deceived, if Eve’s transgression was by indulging in a sexual union with the serpent, what exactly was Adam’s transgression?
Did he too commit a sexual act with the serpent?
Or was it a threesome, so to speak?
Personally, I don’t think any more needs to be said, because it doesn’t bear thinking about.
Some folks who hold with the serpent-seed doctrine, also believe in an eighth day creation.
They claim that mankind in general was created by God in his own image and likeness on the sixth day, whilst Adam and Eve were a separate creation.
For they would produce a godly bloodline, sometimes referred to as ”the scarlet thread”, which ultimately would be inherited by Mary, the mother of Jesus.
In other words, there were two different races, one of which would eventually produce the Saviour, on behalf of those created on the sixth day.
To support this belief, they argue that when Cain arrived in the land of Nod, the land was already inhabited, because he found a wife there, and started his own family.
A close reading of scripture, however, indicates that when travelling to Nod, Cain wasn’t alone, but was accompanied by his wife, and having settled elsewhere, she became pregnant.
His wife being one of his un-named sisters.
Because both sons were working at the time, it’s safe to assume that when Cain killed his brother, they were at least in their late teens, or even young adulthood.
In which case, after 20 years or so, it’s also safe to assume that by now they had a fair number of sisters.
And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch:
and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch. Genesis 4:16-17
And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: Genesis 5:4
Replenish
Many have argued that because in the original Hebrew text, the word maw-lay’ means to fill, the King James Bible translators made a big mistake when using the word replenish at Genesis 1:28.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:
and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Tis true, Strongs Hebrew Dictionary does indeed give the primary meaning of maw-lay’ as fill.
But it’s equally true that replenish is given as a secondary meaning.
And no, one has no need to be a Hebrew scholar to figure it out, because Strongs is written in English.
Everyone knows that the prefix re- means to repeat something, and the first known use of the word ”plenish” was in 1513, according to Merriam-Webster, who define the word plenish as;early Scots plenyss
“to fill up, stock, furnish,”
borrowed from Anglo-French plenis-, stem of plenir:
“to fill, occupy.”
If one’s theology dictates that in no way whatsoever, was the earth inhabited prior to Adam and Eve, then the word replenish becomes a major stumbling-block.
For the word replenish can only mean fill, in the sense of restoring a vessel to its original fulness.
It can never mean to fill a vessel for the first time.
The AKJV is one of only a few Bible versions to use the word replenish, and upon further investigation, it contains an incredible teaching about the history of the earth, which is virtually missing from most all other versions of Scripture.
RELIGION: CHRISTIANITY: Authorized Bible vs. New Bible versions – Library of Rickandria
For whilst sin and death entered this present world through Adam’s disobedience to God, a record of death and mass destruction of life, already existed beneath Adam’s feet, in the form of the geological and fossil record.
For by way of reason, if God told Adam and Eve to be fruitful and multiply, in order to restore the earth to its former fullness, it can only mean one thing.
Just as the earth was inhabited prior to the flood of Noah, when God used the selfsame words, somebody or something, had inhabited the earth prior to the creation of modern-day man, and before the six days of Genesis.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:
and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Genesis 1:28
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. Genesis 9:1
By the grace of God, eight souls were saved from the flood in Noah’s day.
CIVILIZATION: STORIES from the BIBLICAL DELUGE – Library of Rickandria
But had there already been a far earlier flood, one of such catastrophic proportions, from which no life whatsoever was spared?
A deluge on the scale of an Extinction Level Event?
Sometimes referred to as Lucifer’s Flood?
And for good reason, because he was the one charged with turning the [primordial] world into a wilderness and destroying its infrastructure.
Hard to believe?
Then let’s go on a journey through the Scriptures, and check things out for ourselves.
But before we start, a question.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1
Which is the first verse of the Bible?
For chronologically speaking, without John 1:1, there would be no Genesis 1:1.
Time as we know and measure it today, began not in the beginning, as per the first verse of Genesis, but in verse three, at the start of the first day, when God said:
”Let there be Light”
Prior to the the first day, all was in pitch darkness, and the earth, described as being
”without form and void”
is submerged beneath the face of the deep.
For God didn’t command the dry land to appear from the waters until the third day.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.
And the evening and the morning were the first day. Genesis 1:3-5
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear:
and it was so.
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called the Seas:
and God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:9-10
And the evening and the morning were the third day. Gen 1:13
CONTINUE
BOOK: EXCERPT: Lucifer’s Flood & the Little Season – The Fall of Lucifer – Library of Rickandria
BOOK: Lucifer’s Flood & the Little Season – Library of Rickandria