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Dennis Vogel:
You have problems with what Ray mentions in the above video.

Who was going to kill Cain if the only other two persons on earth were his parents? Unless you believe his parents would kill him which seems very unlikely considering their relationship with God. And if they did intend murder Cain do you think it would not be worthy to be recorded in the scriptures?

Where did Cain's wife come from?

Seth, Adam and Eve's third child is recorded.

Did Eve have other children who were not deemed important enough to be recorded?

Gen 4:16  And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

Where did Nod come from? Adam and Eve's unrecorded children?

Gen 3:20  And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

But Eve was not the mother of Adam was she? And Adam was one of the living.

Perhaps something special and spiritual started with Adam and Eve that continues to this day.

If Adam and Eve lived about 6000 years ago and they were the first humans, why is there proof that people inhabited this planet 50,000 to 100,000 years ago?

indianabob:
Thanks Dennis,
I don't have an answer except to say that the Bible doesn't seem to limit Adam's progeny to a certain time frame prior to the murder of Abel by Cain.
Could it have been after each of them had extensive families and these two old guys had been competing for decades? Didn't it take quite a bit of time for each of them to learn their animal husbandry or crop skills and to build a family? I cannot find any reference to Cain's length of life, but many of that day lived for centuries and scripture doesn't say for example after two years this happened it only says what happened next that was important enough to record. Gen 5:1 says that Seth didn't come along until Adam was 130 years old, plenty of time for a large population to have accumulated wasn't it? I think we may assume that Eve remained fertile up until that event when a son that resembled Adam was produced. Gen 5:3 says in Adam's likeness.
I do realize that some events are not explained to our human satisfaction and we will have to wait a little longer to learn the whole story.  :D

Thanks for your reply,
Regards, indiana bob

Dennis Vogel:

--- Quote from: indianabob on May 16, 2017, 08:58:43 PM ---Gen 5:1 says that Seth didn't come along until Adam was 130 years old, plenty of time for a large population to have accumulated wasn't it?

--- End quote ---

Here is the first mention of Seth:

Gen 4:25  And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

You would think if "God had appointed" Eve dozens of other "seeds instead of Abel" who established new cities, etc., they would have been mentioned and their descendants recorded just like Seth's descendants. Especially if any of them were male.

After this Seth is barely mentioned other than having children and how long he lived.

Gen 5:3  And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

Were all these other phamtom "seeds instead of Abel" that preceded Seth not "in his own likeness, after his image"?

And the above verse does not say Seth came along when Adam was 130 years old. It simply says "Adam lived an hundred and thirty years."

Gen 5:1  This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

There is no mention of these phantom children of Eve in "the book of the generations of Adam."

cheekie3:
All -

Genesis 1 (KJV):

26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Genesis 2 (KJV):

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 5 and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground. 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

As Genesis 1 is the full Creation, and then God Rested from all his work on the seventh day - and Adam and Eve were then made after the full Creation (and after He Created Mankind) - does this mean that God continued His Work of Creation after the six days?

Kind Regards.

George

Dennis Vogel:
God put things into motion.

Grass still grows and multiplies but that does not mean God is creating grass everyday.

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