But it Adam was born a hominid, he is not going to just become a homosapien mid-life when the breath of life was breathed into him. The evolutionary process is much longer over multiple generations of individuals. In this way, Adam cannot be one person but a whole species.
- 1 Cor 15:45 And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
Adam did not become spiritually alive when the breath of life was breathed into him, but naturally alive. The Last Adam then is Christ who describes Himself as having many members. Many individuals, the whole human species becomes spiritually alive or born again through Christ who has come to save all.
If we are all together, the whole human species, offered to become part of the last Adam, then why wouldn’t the first Adam also be an entire species? And if an entire species, why not the first species that ever existed?
Adam is describe as being made of “dust”. I feel that God inspired Moses to think of the smallest thing he could to describe Adam’s initial creation, and that was a spec of dust. What God had in mind was a microbe, the first single celled life.
Subsequently Eve is made from Adam’s side, representing cell division, and brought to Adam and they become one flesh being, representing multi-cellularity. They tend the Garden producing their own food, representing simple plant life like algae, and then together eat forbidden food, not their own, and perhaps it is fallen to the ground and eaten as if by a fungus as it rots… this and then hiding under leaves like a naked mushroom represents fungal life.
Upon leaving the Garden they are given animal skins as a covering, representing the first animal life, the first nephesh chay a living soul. Eve is the mother of all living souls and the evolutionary process continues through her offspring, shown in the timing of their births and meaning of their names representing different species defining the progression of mankind up to its human form in Abraham. more in this topic here:
So to answer the origin of moral man, it its the first man to believe and accept Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. This was Peter.
- Matt 16:15-18a He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church,
And with Christ’s death on the cross, He goes back for Abraham (all humans) and everyone in his “bosom” who had the faith of Abraham. This brings us to the next point:
Good point. Ishmael who had his hands on everyone represents bipedalism in hominids and DNA suggests interbreeding with homo erectus, neanderthal and perhaps others integrating them in with modern humans rather than just going extinct.
- Gen 16:12 He shall be a wild man; his hand shall be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. And he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.”
Ishmael who was almost lost with the fleeing of Hagar, was brought back into Abraham’s house and was included in the circumcision.
- Gen 17:23 So Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very same day, as God had said to him.
So I believe “membership in God’s people” may extend at least as far back as australopithecus. Even further back than that may be indicated by being “bought with his money” so membership is on a case by case basis beyond that. I am sure that if someone would like their dog with them in heaven, God will oblige.