The common Greek word for man is
anthropos, which unfortunately was applied to just about any male biped by the Greeks, as today the word “
man” is applied to just about any male biped by Christians. But it was not always that way.
For instance, Paul of Tarsus in the fifth chapter of his epistle to the Romans clearly equates the word
anthropos with Adam. And since Paul equates
anthropos with Adam, Christians have no license to ever assume that anything but an Adam could possibly be an
anthropos. (Greek lexicographers and other experts are divided over the origin of the word
anthropos. I have a theory that it was originally derived from
antheros, the Greek word for “flowery” or “brightly-colored”, just as we say “rosy” or “rosy-cheeked”, and
ops, the Greek word for "face", and therefore was originally applied only to Adamic [ruddy-cheeked] men. But that is just my theory and I didn’t go to college, so it is probably “wrong”.)
Like Paul, Englishmen at one time also knew better. In fact, below there is a link to a PDF file created from some old copies I had out of a Merriam-Webster’s dictionary (title page with ISBN number included) and the definition it has for “man”, where it says “
often capitalized: white society or people”. So we see a remnant of the truth has indeed survived unto the present day. It is just getting harder and harder to find it!
The PDF file is at:
http://christogenea.org/resources/merriam-webster-man.pdf.