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74:8.1 The [[story]] of the [[creation]][http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.1] of [[Urantia]] in six days was based on the [[tradition]] that Adam and Eve had spent just six days in their initial survey of [[the Garden]]. This circumstance lent almost [[sacred]] [[sanction]] to the time period of the week, which had been originally introduced by the [[Dalamatians]]. [[Adam]]'s spending six days inspecting [[the Garden]] and formulating preliminary [[plans]] for [[organization]] was not prearranged; it was worked out from day to day. The choosing of the seventh day for [[worship]] was wholly incidental to the [[facts]] herewith narrated.
74:8.2 The [[legend]] of the making of the world in six days was an afterthought, in [[fact]], more than thirty thousand years afterwards. One feature of the [[narrative]], the sudden [[appearance]] of the [[sun]] and [[moon]], may have taken [[origin]] in the [[traditions]] of the onetime sudden [[emergence]] of the world from a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_dust dense space cloud] of minute [[matter]] which had long obscured both [[sun]] and [[moon]].
74:8.3 The [[story]] of creating [[Eve]] out of [[Adam]]'s rib[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.2] is a confused [[condensation]] of the Adamic arrival and the [[celestial]] surgery connected with the interchange of living substances [[associated]] with the coming of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF corporeal staff] of the [[Planetary Prince]] more than four hundred and fifty thousand years previously.
74:8.4 The [[majority]] of the world's peoples have been [[influenced]] by the [[tradition]] that Adam and Eve had [[physical]] forms [[created]] for them upon their arrival on [[Urantia]]. The [[belief]] in man's having been [[created]] from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay clay] was well-nigh [[universal]] in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_hemisphere Eastern Hemisphere]; this [[tradition]] can be traced from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipines Philippine Islands] around the world to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa Africa]. And many [[groups]] accepted this [[story]] of man's clay [[origin]] by some form of special [[creation]] in the place of the earlier [[beliefs]] in [[progressive]] [[creation]]— [[evolution]].
74:8.5 Away from the [[influences]] of [[Dalamatia]] and [[Eden]], [[mankind]] tended toward the [[belief]] in the [[gradual]] [[ascent]] of the [[human]] [[race]]. The [[fact]] of [[evolution]] is not a [[modern]] [[discovery]]; the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_history ancients] understood the slow and [[evolutionary]] [[character]] of [[human]] [[progress]]. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_greek early Greeks] had clear [[ideas]] of this despite their proximity to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia]. Although the various [[races]] of [[earth]] became sadly mixed up in their notions of [[evolution]], nevertheless, many of the [[primitive]] [[tribes]] believed and taught that they were the [[descendants]] of various [[animals]]. [[Primitive]] peoples made a [[practice]] of selecting for their "[[totems]]" the [[animals]] of their supposed [[ancestry]]. Certain [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States North American Indian tribes] believed they originated from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver beavers] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote coyotes]. Certain [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa African] tribes teach that they are descended from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyena hyena], a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malays_%28ethnic_group%29 Malay] tribe from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemur lemur], a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea New Guinea] group from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrot parrot].
74:8.6 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonia Babylonians], because of [[immediate]] [[contact]] with the remnants of the [[civilization]] of the Adamites, enlarged and embellished the [[story]] of man's [[creation]]; they taught that he had descended directly from the [[gods]]. They held to an [[aristocratic]] [[origin]] for the [[race]] which was incompatible with even the [[doctrine]] of [[creation]] out of clay.
74:8.7 The [[Old Testament]] account of [[creation]] dates from long after the time of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses]; he never taught the [[Hebrews]] such a distorted [[story]]. But he did present a [[simple]] and condensed [[narrative]] of [[creation]] to the Israelites, hoping thereby to augment his [[appeal]] to [[worship]] the [[Creator]], the [[Universal Father]], whom he called the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Exodus#Chapter_.5 Lord God of Israel].
74:8.8 In his early teachings, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] very wisely did not attempt to go back of [[Adam]]'s time, and since Moses was the supreme [[teacher]] of the [[Hebrews]], the stories of Adam became [[intimately]] associated with those of [[creation]]. That the earlier [[traditions]] recognized pre-Adamic [[civilization]] is clearly shown by the [[fact]] that later [[editors]], intending to eradicate all [[reference]] to [[human]] affairs before [[Adam]]'s time, neglected to remove the telltale [[reference]] to Cain's [[emigration]] to the "[[Nodites|land of Nod]]," where he took himself a [[wife]].
74:8.9 The [[Hebrews]] had no [[written]] [[language]] in general usage for a long time after they reached [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine Palestine]. They learned the use of an [[alphabet]] from the neighboring [[Philistines]], who were [[political]] refugees from the higher [[civilization]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete Crete]. The [[Hebrews]] did little [[writing]] until about [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/900_B.C. 900 B.C]., and having no [[written]] [[language]] until such a late date, they had several [[different]] stories of [[creation]] in [[circulation]], but after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_captivity Babylonian captivity] they inclined more toward accepting a [[modified]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamian] version.
74:8.10 Jewish [[tradition]] became crystallized about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses], and because he endeavored to trace the [[lineage]] of [[Abraham]] back to [[Adam]], the Jews assumed that [[Adam]] was the first of all [[mankind]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh Yahweh] was the [[creator]], and since [[Adam]] was supposed to be the first man, he must have made the world just prior to making Adam. And then the [[tradition]] of Adam's six days got woven into the [[story]], with the result that almost a thousand years after Moses' [[sojourn]] on earth the [[tradition]] of [[creation]] in six days was written out and subsequently credited to him.
74:8.11 When the Jewish [[priests]] returned to [[Jerusalem]], they had already completed the [[writing]] of their [[narrative]] of the [[Origin|beginning]] of [[things]]. Soon they made claims that this recital was a recently [[discovered]] story of [[creation]] written by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses]. But the contemporary [[Hebrews]] of around 500 B.C. did not consider these [[writings]] to be [[divine]] [[revelations]]; they looked upon them much as later peoples regard [[mythological]] [[narratives]].
74:8.12 This spurious [[document]], reputed to be the teachings of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses], was brought to the [[attention]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_I_Soter Ptolemy], the [[Greek]] [[king]] of Egypt, who had it [[translated]] into [[Greek]] by a commission of seventy [[scholars]] for his new [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria library at Alexandria]. And so this account found its place among those [[writings]] which subsequently became a part of the later collections of the "[[sacred]] [[scriptures]]" of the [[Hebrew]] and [[Christian]] [[religions]]. And through identification with these [[theological]] [[systems]], such [[concepts]] for a long time [[profoundly]] [[influenced]] the [[philosophy]] of many [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_culture Occidental] peoples.
74:8.13 The [[Christian]] teachers perpetuated the [[belief]] in the [[fiat]] [[creation]] of the [[human]] [[race]], and all this led directly to the formation of the [[hypothesis]] of a onetime golden age of [[utopian]] [[bliss]] and the [[theory]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_of_Man the fall of man] or superman which accounted for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia nonutopian] condition of [[society]]. These outlooks on life and man's place in the [[universe]] were at best discouraging since they were predicated upon a [[belief]] in [[retrogression]] rather than [[progression]], as well as implying a vengeful [[Deity]], who had vented wrath upon the [[human]] [[race]] in retribution for the errors of certain onetime [[planetary]] [[administrators]].
74:8.14 The "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age golden age]" is a [[myth]], but [[Eden]] was a [[fact]], and [[the Garden]] [[civilization]] was actually overthrown. Adam and Eve carried on in [[the Garden]] for one hundred and seventeen years when, through the impatience of [[Eve]] and the errors of [[judgment]] of [[Adam]], they presumed to turn aside from the [[ordained]] way, speedily bringing disaster upon themselves and ruinous retardation upon the developmental [[progression]] of all [[Urantia]].
74:8.15 Narrated by [[Solonia]], the seraphic "voice in the Garden."
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[[Category:Paper 74 - Adam and Eve]]
74:8.1 The [[story]] of the [[creation]][http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.1] of [[Urantia]] in six days was based on the [[tradition]] that Adam and Eve had spent just six days in their initial survey of [[the Garden]]. This circumstance lent almost [[sacred]] [[sanction]] to the time period of the week, which had been originally introduced by the [[Dalamatians]]. [[Adam]]'s spending six days inspecting [[the Garden]] and formulating preliminary [[plans]] for [[organization]] was not prearranged; it was worked out from day to day. The choosing of the seventh day for [[worship]] was wholly incidental to the [[facts]] herewith narrated.
74:8.2 The [[legend]] of the making of the world in six days was an afterthought, in [[fact]], more than thirty thousand years afterwards. One feature of the [[narrative]], the sudden [[appearance]] of the [[sun]] and [[moon]], may have taken [[origin]] in the [[traditions]] of the onetime sudden [[emergence]] of the world from a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_dust dense space cloud] of minute [[matter]] which had long obscured both [[sun]] and [[moon]].
74:8.3 The [[story]] of creating [[Eve]] out of [[Adam]]'s rib[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.2] is a confused [[condensation]] of the Adamic arrival and the [[celestial]] surgery connected with the interchange of living substances [[associated]] with the coming of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF corporeal staff] of the [[Planetary Prince]] more than four hundred and fifty thousand years previously.
74:8.4 The [[majority]] of the world's peoples have been [[influenced]] by the [[tradition]] that Adam and Eve had [[physical]] forms [[created]] for them upon their arrival on [[Urantia]]. The [[belief]] in man's having been [[created]] from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay clay] was well-nigh [[universal]] in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_hemisphere Eastern Hemisphere]; this [[tradition]] can be traced from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipines Philippine Islands] around the world to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa Africa]. And many [[groups]] accepted this [[story]] of man's clay [[origin]] by some form of special [[creation]] in the place of the earlier [[beliefs]] in [[progressive]] [[creation]]— [[evolution]].
74:8.5 Away from the [[influences]] of [[Dalamatia]] and [[Eden]], [[mankind]] tended toward the [[belief]] in the [[gradual]] [[ascent]] of the [[human]] [[race]]. The [[fact]] of [[evolution]] is not a [[modern]] [[discovery]]; the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_history ancients] understood the slow and [[evolutionary]] [[character]] of [[human]] [[progress]]. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_greek early Greeks] had clear [[ideas]] of this despite their proximity to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia]. Although the various [[races]] of [[earth]] became sadly mixed up in their notions of [[evolution]], nevertheless, many of the [[primitive]] [[tribes]] believed and taught that they were the [[descendants]] of various [[animals]]. [[Primitive]] peoples made a [[practice]] of selecting for their "[[totems]]" the [[animals]] of their supposed [[ancestry]]. Certain [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States North American Indian tribes] believed they originated from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver beavers] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote coyotes]. Certain [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa African] tribes teach that they are descended from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyena hyena], a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malays_%28ethnic_group%29 Malay] tribe from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemur lemur], a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea New Guinea] group from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrot parrot].
74:8.6 The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonia Babylonians], because of [[immediate]] [[contact]] with the remnants of the [[civilization]] of the Adamites, enlarged and embellished the [[story]] of man's [[creation]]; they taught that he had descended directly from the [[gods]]. They held to an [[aristocratic]] [[origin]] for the [[race]] which was incompatible with even the [[doctrine]] of [[creation]] out of clay.
74:8.7 The [[Old Testament]] account of [[creation]] dates from long after the time of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses]; he never taught the [[Hebrews]] such a distorted [[story]]. But he did present a [[simple]] and condensed [[narrative]] of [[creation]] to the Israelites, hoping thereby to augment his [[appeal]] to [[worship]] the [[Creator]], the [[Universal Father]], whom he called the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Exodus#Chapter_.5 Lord God of Israel].
74:8.8 In his early teachings, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] very wisely did not attempt to go back of [[Adam]]'s time, and since Moses was the supreme [[teacher]] of the [[Hebrews]], the stories of Adam became [[intimately]] associated with those of [[creation]]. That the earlier [[traditions]] recognized pre-Adamic [[civilization]] is clearly shown by the [[fact]] that later [[editors]], intending to eradicate all [[reference]] to [[human]] affairs before [[Adam]]'s time, neglected to remove the telltale [[reference]] to Cain's [[emigration]] to the "[[Nodites|land of Nod]]," where he took himself a [[wife]].
74:8.9 The [[Hebrews]] had no [[written]] [[language]] in general usage for a long time after they reached [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine Palestine]. They learned the use of an [[alphabet]] from the neighboring [[Philistines]], who were [[political]] refugees from the higher [[civilization]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete Crete]. The [[Hebrews]] did little [[writing]] until about [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/900_B.C. 900 B.C]., and having no [[written]] [[language]] until such a late date, they had several [[different]] stories of [[creation]] in [[circulation]], but after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_captivity Babylonian captivity] they inclined more toward accepting a [[modified]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamian] version.
74:8.10 Jewish [[tradition]] became crystallized about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses], and because he endeavored to trace the [[lineage]] of [[Abraham]] back to [[Adam]], the Jews assumed that [[Adam]] was the first of all [[mankind]]. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh Yahweh] was the [[creator]], and since [[Adam]] was supposed to be the first man, he must have made the world just prior to making Adam. And then the [[tradition]] of Adam's six days got woven into the [[story]], with the result that almost a thousand years after Moses' [[sojourn]] on earth the [[tradition]] of [[creation]] in six days was written out and subsequently credited to him.
74:8.11 When the Jewish [[priests]] returned to [[Jerusalem]], they had already completed the [[writing]] of their [[narrative]] of the [[Origin|beginning]] of [[things]]. Soon they made claims that this recital was a recently [[discovered]] story of [[creation]] written by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses]. But the contemporary [[Hebrews]] of around 500 B.C. did not consider these [[writings]] to be [[divine]] [[revelations]]; they looked upon them much as later peoples regard [[mythological]] [[narratives]].
74:8.12 This spurious [[document]], reputed to be the teachings of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses], was brought to the [[attention]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_I_Soter Ptolemy], the [[Greek]] [[king]] of Egypt, who had it [[translated]] into [[Greek]] by a commission of seventy [[scholars]] for his new [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria library at Alexandria]. And so this account found its place among those [[writings]] which subsequently became a part of the later collections of the "[[sacred]] [[scriptures]]" of the [[Hebrew]] and [[Christian]] [[religions]]. And through identification with these [[theological]] [[systems]], such [[concepts]] for a long time [[profoundly]] [[influenced]] the [[philosophy]] of many [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_culture Occidental] peoples.
74:8.13 The [[Christian]] teachers perpetuated the [[belief]] in the [[fiat]] [[creation]] of the [[human]] [[race]], and all this led directly to the formation of the [[hypothesis]] of a onetime golden age of [[utopian]] [[bliss]] and the [[theory]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_of_Man the fall of man] or superman which accounted for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia nonutopian] condition of [[society]]. These outlooks on life and man's place in the [[universe]] were at best discouraging since they were predicated upon a [[belief]] in [[retrogression]] rather than [[progression]], as well as implying a vengeful [[Deity]], who had vented wrath upon the [[human]] [[race]] in retribution for the errors of certain onetime [[planetary]] [[administrators]].
74:8.14 The "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_age golden age]" is a [[myth]], but [[Eden]] was a [[fact]], and [[the Garden]] [[civilization]] was actually overthrown. Adam and Eve carried on in [[the Garden]] for one hundred and seventeen years when, through the impatience of [[Eve]] and the errors of [[judgment]] of [[Adam]], they presumed to turn aside from the [[ordained]] way, speedily bringing disaster upon themselves and ruinous retardation upon the developmental [[progression]] of all [[Urantia]].
74:8.15 Narrated by [[Solonia]], the seraphic "voice in the Garden."
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_74 Go to Paper 74]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 74 - Adam and Eve]]