Abstract
In my opinion, Richard Bube's Communication (PSCF 48 [Dec. 1996]: 250-253) contains a number of serious theological errors. In the first place, his definition of "man" as a creature that "is based on `human' genetic material," is inadequate, since it fails to isolate this as Adamic genetic material. Eve herself was made by God with the assistance of genetic material taken from Adam (Gen. 2:18-23; 1 Cor. 11:8,9), and man's common descent thereafter from Adam and Eve (Gen. 3:20; 1 Chron. 1:128) is strongly stressed throughout the OT. The word "man" in the OT is usually either 'adam or 'iysh. Where it is 'adam, rather than translating it as "man" or "men," it would generally be quite accurate to translate it as "Adamite(s)." If this were done, it would highlight just how important the OT considers it is to recognize that all human beings are Adamites. This same teaching is found in such NT passages as Acts 17:26 (NASB, cf. Luke 3:38); Rom. 5 and 1 Cor. 15. In failing to recognize this, Bube has, in my opinion, failed to properly define what a man is.