Just being real writes:The question posed in this thread was, "Biblically, Was Adam The First Man?" Therefore we are leaving our personal beliefs aside and responding only with reality according to the Bible.
Fair enough.
The reality of the Bible, is that the Adam and Eve story reads as something of the genre of fables. Therefore, putting our own beliefs aside, we should read it as a fable. Hence we cannot conclude that Adam was the first man.
If you want to go by your "Willie Wonka" analogy, then you would have to be talking of "reality according to the Adam and Eve story" rather than of "reality according to the Bible."
Just being real writes:Rather you personally believe that Jesus was merely a sitcom character or a real person is not relevant to the question posed.
Wow! You must have completely missed the point. I was not in any way suggesting that "Jesus was merely a sitcom character."
There are actual logic books that contain quotes from Sherlock Holmes. They never mention that Sherlock Holmes was a fictional character. And these are technical logic books that place an emphasis on truth.
The point is that it is entirely normal for people, in their writing and speaking, to allude to fictional characters without any mention that they are fictional. And thus there is no basis for concluding that the referenced characters are not fictional. That Jesus alluded to Adam is
zero evidence that Jesus believed Adam to have been real. If Jesus believed Adam to be a well understood, but fictional cultural icon, he would have alluded to him in just the same way.
I see that you used the same kind of bogus reasoning in the following paragraph. I won't go through that line by line.