I personally donāt see any reason for me to believe that Adam and Eve were created differently, or created the same, and then interbred with apes or other humans created through evolution while they themselves were created by magic or whatever you want to call it.
Since it does not give answers any more clear than mythological answers to the creation account I look into science and other biblical patterns to explain it.
Science shows that we evolved just like everything else. At some point along the evolutionary route we developed cognitive reasoning skills, emotional intelligence , abstract thought, and the became creatures that could put faith in a god.
When I look at biblical patterns I always seeing a god selecting a handful of people to be his people. He chose Abraham, and he chose Moses. He both guided them towards a promised land. He chose Noah and saved him.
So with those patterns and scientific data the conclusion that makes the most sense to me
Is that at some point God reaches out to Adam and Eve. Maybe they were already a couple. Maybe they became a couple. Maybe they were kids and he was raising them up in righteousness. Maybe they were in the garden for decades or maybe just a year. Donāt I know. But God selected them and they were his people. When they messed up, they had to leave the promise land ( garden ).
As for how sin is passed in use a similar approach. These verses really helped.
Romans 5:12-14 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinnedā 13 for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.
It says through one men sin entered the world and sin spread to all men. I donāt believe thatās reference to genealogies , genetics, or anything of the like. I believe that sin only becomes sin once god calls it sin. God gave Adam and Eve a few rules. They broke them. They sinned. Then they drift their kids , and it seems god was still communicating with them directly about sin. Cain knew his sacrifice was wrong and did it anyways. Throughout the ages, the message was spread to everyone. Everyone kept choosing sin. Sin is carried on because people
Are told the right thing to do and choose to do the wrong thing.
One part of those verses stands out to me.
Sin has always been in the world. But before the law labeled it as sin we were not accountable to it. Now we are. I believe God chose Adam and Eve to show them the right way and was going to bless them with leading the world. They messed up. We all have except Christ.