It's not really hard to understand if you look at the text. Adam is the first born made by God. Jesus the second Adam made flesh by the Holy Spirit. Jesus is also referred to as the son of david. The king after Gods own heart.
If you believe in the Seth and Cain theory for Gen 6 and the verse read as men then began calling then why was Noah and his family the only ones saved? Won't there be others? For doesn't the new testament say if you call on the name of the Lord you will be saved?
I enjoy your posts a great deal and mean no offense or correction. I knew in this topic the above mentioned would be involved so I just wanted to express the others ideas. Both are prone to conjecture.
Yes no issues whatsoever with you or your view on the matter we’re discussing . I just feel as if it’s an escape hatch a lot of people use here in discussions to say “ well the original doesn’t say that it says this other thing “ but then not be willing to share the source of how they know this to be true .
My point with that verse was just that it was in line and echoed with all the others explaining who Gods children are and who Gods spiritual or heavenly , ministers are.
theres no offense or anything like that at all brother , I enjoy discussion in a good spirit . Often here people explain what the bi ke really says in its ancient form and manuscript but then I really wonder “ is this stranger on the internet qualified moreso than the biblical translators ? “
and it’s hard to just take what someone says online as more solid and rooted and grounded than the Bible just because they said it . I’m not at all trying to be rude in any way bro just this is why often when someone explains the Bible doesn’t really say this or that I sort of wonder about thier qualifications is all I mean.
“I have no problem with the 2 views I just wanted to show the other side of the Seth and Cain theory. In which I've chosen men began to profane. This seems to fit with the narrative to only 8 were spared.”
because only eight were spared after ten generations beforehand of people who lived nearly thousand year lifespans bro and had many children sons and daughters we never are really told about
God made a covenant in genesis one with mankind then after man sins ….and after cain kills abel and is rejected
“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. And
to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.”
Genesis 4:25-26 KJV
look at all the others who existed but we don’t really hear of notice how many years it is from Seth to noah and his sons n the generation of the flood.
32 KJV
https://bible.com/bible/1/gen.5.4-32.KJV
“and the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: and all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. and Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died. and Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters: and Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters: and Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters: and Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. …( we read in Hebrews 11 Enoch never died but was translated by faith ) ect ect ….And
Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.”
Genesis 5:4-5, 7-8, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22-24, 32 KJV
several generations had already lived and died on earth and had already been calling on his name in the beginning before
this happened when only 8 were spared is my point
“And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.”
Genesis 6:5-6, 13-14, 17-18, 22 KJV
there were many generations before the generation of Noah when man became wicked notice this happens at the end of every covenant God destroys man and then begins again. Noah’s covenant runs into Israel’s covenant and then at the end of it God sees again that man had become entirely wicked like before the flood
“God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God. Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
Psalm 53:2-3
So again God ends the covenant and makes a new one through Christ and finally we’re told that at the end of this covenant man will again become desperately wicked at heart sort of like genesis six
“This know also, that
in the last days perilous times shall come. For
men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”
2 Timothy 3:1-5
Then of course the lord will return with fire and end it again
God has always been there and his name has always been the same but in scripture it’s hidden from us until the gospel .
“In the beginning
God created the heaven and the earth.”
Genesis 1:1 KJV
Now we too can call upon his name like they did in the beginning by the same word
“
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
….
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
….But
as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were
born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but
of God.”
John 1:1-4, 10, 12-13 KJV
I think In early genesis a lot is hidden from us
“And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.”
Genesis 3:8 KJV
Who was walking in the garden ? And why wouldn’t they know his name and have told thier children who actually also walked with him ? Like Enoch