So, what was Cain was afraid of, and where did he find his wife….how did he build a city…where did all these people come from? I think it’s obvious that we don’t have the entire account here. Maybe “Adam and Eve” stands for many people who inhabited the garden. Remember, Adam was never told to name his wife..he was to name animals. It’s only after the fall that Adam names Eve. I say that to speculate that mankind didn’t have individual names in the Garden.
Okay, that’s reaching a bit…. But who knows? There are other possibilities: maybe God created other people who weren’t part of the sin equation. Maybe when Adam and Eve sinned they were found guilty as well. After all, the earth didn’t do anything wrong and it was cursed.
The point is, we don’t know. But the Bible wasn’t handed down to us so that we would know everything, it’s simply meant to help us understand that we are lost and in need of being rescued. You can find out the rest of the story in heaven. For right now what you need to know is that we didn’t obey, we lost communion with God and things went from good to very, very bad.
One last thought here. In Chapter 6 in the New Living Translation it says that God “regretted that he had made man”. What a sad comment that is. We had become so evil and filled with violence that God in His perfection wondered if creating us was a mistake. What a mess we have made out of what should have been a perfect existence.
I see that God tells Noah he is going to “destroy the earth”, but what that means is that all life will be wiped out. In Revelation God “destroys the earth” again…I wonder if it’s a similar event, where the actual planet stays but the life is wiped out.
Clearly the planet isn’t what it was when it was created. For one thing, there is no water above us, and when God created the earth he separated the waters and put “sky” between them. What happened to the water that used to be above us? I think it came down in Noah’s flood. One more reason God said he wouldn’t do that again… But that’s the next blog..
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