101 Myths of the Bible: how ancient scribes - Conscious Evolution TV

yth #18:
Adam and Eve were the first humans.
The Myth: This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created
man, in the likeness of God made he him; Male and female created he them; and
blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness,
after his image; and called his name Seth: And the days of Adam after he had begotten
Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: And all the days
that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. (Gen. 5:1–5)
The Reality: Adam and Eve were the Egyptian deities Geb (earth) and Nut
(heaven). Their children were the children of the earth and the heavens.
At the beginning of the second Creation account in Genesis, we are told that the
stories that follow are about the family of the heavens and the earth (see Myth #17).
The chief characters in those stories are Adam and Eve and their children, Cain and
Abel, implying that the family of Adam is the family of the heavens and the earth.
Initially, the Bible refers to Adam and Eve as“the Adam” (see Myth #11) and Eve
as“the woman.” During the course of the story, a subtle transformation in terminology
takes place and they become known as Adam and Eve. Although it is implied in these
early tales that Adam and Eve were the first humans, it is not until Genesis 5:1 that a
direct connection is made. At that point, the Bible presents the first of several genealogies
that make Adam the ancestor of the human race, tracing a line of descent through
Noah and down to the biblical patriarchs.
In Myth #12, we learned that Adam and Eve were not the same as the humans
created on the sixth day. They were created“in the day that God made the earth and
the heavens,”which is the second day. Were they a different set of humans from those
created on the sixth day or were they originally some sort of cosmic deities?
In the Babylonian Creation myth, heaven and earth were the severed halves of a
dead monster known as Tiamat. Since these two inanimate chunks of corpse did not
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