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New Testament scholar and former Bishop of Durham (UK) N.T. Wright, who believes young-earth creation is false teaching,2 says in his book Surprised by Scripture: [J]ust as God chose Israel from the rest of humankind for a special, strange, demanding, vocation, so perhaps what Genesis is telling us is that God chose one pair from the rest of early hominids for a special, strange, demanding, vocation. This pair (call them Adam and Eve if you like) were to be representatives of the whole human race.3 Interestingly, Wright goes on to say, “I do not know whether this is exactly what Genesis meant or what Paul meant. But the close and (to a Jewish reader) rather obvious parallel between the vocation of Israel and the vocation of Adam leads me in that direction.
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