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Working on my mixed media skills using the ever beautiful Stygian Zinogre as a model!

Started with a base of vibrant watercolor and build up a few glazes before beginning with my Holbein gouache. Almost done!

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Adam: The Father of All Humanity

The New Testament affirms Adam as the historical father of all humanity, by whom sin entered the world:

The New Testament assumes a literal creation of Adam. Adam is a type of Christ who is to come: Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come (Romans 5:14). The first Adam became a living being: And so it is written, The first man Adam became a living being. The last Adam a life-giving spirit (1 Corinthians 15:45). For Adam was first formed then Eve (1 Timothy 2:13). Adam was made from the dust of the earth while Eve was made from the side of Adam. Therefore, Paul can say: And He has made us one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth (Acts 17:26). In , the Apostle Paul discussed the literal bodily resurrection of Christ and of believers. He wrote: For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive (1 Corinthians 15:22). From the construction For as . . . so also it is clear that if all do not die in Adam, then none shall be made alive in Christ. If Adam is not a literal historical person, then the Christian has no hope of the resurrection. If Adam is merely figurative, then our resurrection is merely figurative. Elsewhere, Paul not only confirms the Genesis account, he relates it to Jesus: For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 4:6). Creation Of Eve The Bible says Eve, the first woman, was created by a supernatural direct act of God. She was made from Adams side. The biblical account of the creation of Eve is rejected by theistic evolutionists. They say man and woman evolved together from some ape-like creature over a span of several million years. However, the writers of the New Testament support the literal truth of this account of Eves creation: For man is not from woman, but woman from man (1 Corinthians 11:8). https://www.blueletterbible.org/faq/don_stewart/don_stewart_620.cfm

If the New Testament is repeatedly wrong about Adam somehow being a mythical figure, including Jesus' genealogy in Luke 3:23-38, how can we trust any historical claims that the New Testament makes about Jesus, including His resurrection?

I don't care if the earth is 4.5 billion years old or 6,000 years old or if there was a local flood or a global flood. I care about honoring the New Testament's repeated affirmation of Adam as the historical father of all humanity.

An evolutionist will point to similarities between chimps and humans and insist that we must share a common ancestor, but a Christian who trusts the New Testament as the bedrock for our salvation will look at the vast differences between chimps and humans that evolution cannot explain.

Reflections on Human Origins William A. Dembski version 2.1, 18aug04 ABSTRACT: The evolutionary literature treats the evolution of humans from ape-like ancestors as overwhelmingly confirmed. Moreover, this literature defines evolution as an inherently material process without any guidance from an underlying intelligence. This paper reviews the main lines of evidence used to support such a materialist view of human evolution and finds them inadequate. Instead, it argues that an evolutionary process unguided by intelligence cannot adequately account for the remarkable intellectual and moral qualities exhibited among humans. The bottom line is that intelligence has played an indispensable role in human origins... https://billdembski.com/documents/2004.06.Human_Origins.pdf

Jewish commentaries traditionally upheld Adam's creation from dust, rather than evolution from an ape-like creature: 

According to Targ. Yer. to Gen. ii. 7, God took dust from the holy place (as "the center of the earth"; compare Pirḳe R. Eliezer xi., xx.) and the four parts of the world, mingling it with the water of all the seas, and made him red, black, and white (probably more correctly Pirḳe R. El. xi. and Chronicle of Jerahmeel, vi. 7: "White, black, red, and green—bones and sinews white; intestines black; blood red; skin of body or liver green"); compare Philo, "Creation of the World," xlvii.; Abulfeda, "Historia Ante-Islámica."...

R. Meir (second century) has the tradition that God made Adam of the dust gathered from the whole world; and Rab (third century) says: "His head was made of earth from the Holy Land; his main body, from Babylonia; and the various members from different lands" (Sanh. 38a et seq.; compare Gen. R. viii.; Midr. Teh. cxxxix. 5; and Tan., Peḳude, 3, end)... It is a beautiful and certainly an original idea of the rabbis that "Adam was created from the dust of the place where the sanctuary was to rise for the atonement of all human sin," so that sin should never be a permanent or inherent part of man's nature (Gen. R. xiv., Yer. Naz. vii. 56b). https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/758-adam

Jewish commentaries also traditionally upheld Adam as the historical father of all humankind: 

While the generic character that the name of Adam has in the older parts of Scripture, where it appears with the article ("the man"), was gradually lost sight of, his typical character as the representative of the unity of mankind was constantly emphasized (compare Sanh. iv. 5; the correct reading in Tosef., Sanh. viii. 4-9):

"Why was only a single specimen of man created first? To teach us that he who destroys a single soul destroys a whole world and that he who saves a single soul saves a whole world; furthermore, in order that no race or class may claim a nobler ancestry, saying, 'Our father was born first'; and, finally, to give testimony to the greatness of the Lord, who caused the wonderful diversity of mankind to emanate from one type. And why was Adam created last of all beings? To teach him humility; for if he be overbearing, let him remember that the little fly preceded him in the order of creation.”

In a dispute, therefore, as to which Biblical verse expresses the fundamental principle of the Law, Simon ben 'Azkai maintained against R. Akiba—who, following Hillel, had singled out the Golden Rule (Lev. xix. 18)—that the principle of love must have as its basis Gen. v. 1, which teaches that all men are the offspring of him who was made in the image of God (Sifra, Ḳedoshim, iv.; Yer. Ned. ix. 41c; Gen. R. 24). This idea, expressed also by Paul in his speech at Athens, "[God] hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth" (Acts, xvii. 26), found expression in many characteristic forms. https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/758-adam

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Working on some #watercolor #art of AzKai, my #kitsune #oc 😊

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Ren from Persona 5! He's such a fantastic character to practice line work, ink and using manga nibs! This is my first go at manga type lining and inking!

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Experimenting with watercolors on more thin, cold press. Great anthro base! (Will update with artist's name and info for base.)

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(WIP) New character design · Will be colored with watercolor and gouache. After it's finished I'll put it for sale!

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First pass at trying out my copics. AzKai's left eye. #copicmarkers #copicmultiliner #eyedrawing #anthroart #manga #artistsoninstagram #artistsontumblr #copicshading https://www.instagram.com/p/CpX0-yhOzKQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Finally moved into my new place, so it's time for some more art!

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“Turf War” Mixed Media series I’m working on; “Cruel Gale” is the name of this one.

This is yesterday’s WIP, I’ll have another soon with quite a few changes after learning ‘Lines of Force’ and the ‘Railroad’ techniques for composition yesterday. Learn about them from Mike Mattesi over in this YouTube video series! https://youtu.be/IyuCq6VWVeA 

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Breaking out the tracing paper; time to layer on this Legiana again!

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