Was Adam and Eve real people?
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) "In Adam's fall , we sinned all." So begins the New England Primer , which taught generations of early Americans to read. In introducing our forefathers to the letter A , the primer was also administering a generous dose of biblical theology. As Paul puts it crisply in 1 Corinthians 15:22 , "For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive." Through Adam, sin and death entered into the world. By Christ, sin and death were conquered. Adam forfeited life by his disobedience. Christ achieved life by His obedience. These simple, basic truths, Paul tells the Corinthians, are the very structure and content of the gospel. In the modern world, skeptics have long questioned or denied the historicity of Adam. Neo-orthodox theologians added their voices to this chorus in the last century. More recently, and under the pressure of evolutionary theory, some prominent evangelical voices