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Q. At what age did God create Adam?
(Submitted by: Charlette)
A. You have asked a good question that unfortunately isn't definitively answered in the Bible. That said, we can draw a general age range from inferences made in scriptures and from man's history. When Michaelangelo Buonarroti sculpted the statue called Slaves in the 1500s he depicted his subjects as young men in their prime at about the age of 30 or so. He also depicted God the Creator and Father of us all in his prime when depicting him on the ceiling of the Cistine Chapel. Archaeologists that have uncovered tombs and mummified remains from the ancient Egyptians have found that most of the statues and masks discovered depict a person as they looked in the prime of his or her life (one notable exception is Amenhotep IV). Was this the pride of man to want to look his best for posterity or was this the inspiration of God to do these art pieces in this manner? If it was the inspiration of God then we might surmise that Adam, who was the first man sculpted by God out of the red earth of the Middle East, was created in the prime of human life. This prime would be roughly around the age of 30. When Jesus was killed on the cross he was also in the prime of his life or half way through his earthly lifetime. He is called the Second (or last) Adam in the Bible: " And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [was made] a quickening spirit. " (1Corinthians 15:45) |