Theologian NT Wright claims Adam and Eve were 'human-like creatures,' Jonah and the great fish a 'folk tale'
Adam and Eve
Likely the most debated portion of the podcast concerns the biblical Adam and Eve, who Wright said were part of what he called "a very careful, layered ancient Middle Eastern story” in Genesis 1.
Rejecting a literal 24-hour creation week, Wright said he is “inclined to see an original human pair” in the figures of Adam and Eve, referring to them as “hominids” and “humanlike creatures.”
“We might even call them proto-humans for many generations, perhaps for many thousands of years before the time we're now talking about,” he added, proposing instead that the Bible’s original couple was called, like the patriarch Abraham and his wife Sarah, for a “special purpose” to “bring the, at the moment, rather random and chaotic world under [God’s] saving sovereign stewardship.
“So that seems to me [to be] a way of saying that if there was an original Adam and Eve, that would be what it was all about,” Wright added.
Ian M. Giatti is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ian.giatti@christianpost.com.
