- Several times in Genesis 1, 2, and 3 God mentions cattle. In 2:20 it says "So Adam gave names to ALL cattle..." And I was wondering how that could be, because cattle are cattle (unless you get into breeds like gelbvieh, angus, hereford, etc.). I looked up in the Stong's, and I guess "cattle" back then just meant a dumb beast/a large animal. You probably already knew that, but I didn't. :)
- Genesis 2:23 says "Adam said...therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh." Whad did Adam know about a father and a mother? Yes, he had God the Father, but how could he understand the concept of leaving one's father and mother to go live with your wife. He didn't have a mother, and he never left God...
- "And they heard the sound of the Lord God wlaking in the garden in the cool of the day..." Can you imagine a place where you can hear God walking around in the early morning? Wow.
- Here's something interesting: This is the prophecy toward the serpent: "And I will put emnity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel." I found two other verses that tie into this. Psalm 41:9 is quoted in John 13:18 by Jesus: "I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; that the scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread wiht me has lifted up his heel against me.'" I think Jesus is probably talking about Judas here, which really ties into the verse in Genesis. Does that make sense?
- This is cool! Several times in the first few chapters (1:26, 3:22), God refers to himself as "Us." I just love how he says "Let us make man in OUR image..."
- Gen 4:17 says "And Cain knew his wife..." Where did Cain's wife come from? ;)
- After Noah comes out of the ark (imagine coming out of your tiny little box into a completely different world, that is washed completely clean. Wow.), it says "every moving thing that lives shall be food for you." I never quite understood why vegetarians thought it was bad to eat meat, and especially after reading this bit. Does someone have an explanation?
- This is Genesis 13:7-8: "But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together. And quarreling arose between Abram's herdsmen and the herdsmen of Lot. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time. So Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have any quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and mine, for we are brothers." So here's my question: It's talking about Abram's and Lot's servants quarreling, and then all of a sudden there is this random sentence about the Canaanites and the Perizzites. Why is that randomly stuck in there?
That's all! If anyone did happen to read all through this, I'd love to have your input. But if not, that's fine too. :)
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Haha! I like your point about the cattle......I actuallt didn't know that! I think I'll go through and answer some of your quetions point by point:
"Adam said...therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh." Whad did Adam know about a father and a mother?"
I really don't know! The only thing I can think of was that God (who of course knew all that) had told him. I actually wondered that too. :P
"God refers to himself as "Us." I just love how he says "Let us make man in OUR image...""
Would you think that maybe he was talking to the Son and Holy Ghost there?
"Where did Cain's wife come from?"
Well since Adam and Eve were the first people on earth, and the Bible says that Cain had a wife, the only explaination is that he married his sister.
"All of a sudden there is this random sentence about the Canaanites and the Perizzites. Why is that randomly stuck in there??"
I don't know! Maybe for some reason it was pertinent to what the Isrealites were going through when Moses wrote it?? Good question.
~Sadie
Yeah, I was definitely thinking it as being God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
You know, maybe by the time Cain got married one of his siblings had had kids, so maybe he married a niece or something...weird.
Yes, but if he married his niece, that means that one of his siblings had already married one of their sisters....weird. :P Oh, and why does it say now that five girls are reading? Has someone else joined? :)
Oh, and I was just thinking that the random sentence about the Canaanites and the Perizzites living there too...maybe it's because it was trying to specify that there were other people there besides Lot and Abraham, so there wasn't as much room as there might otherwise have been. Just a thought!
On Adam and parents, I don't think Adam is still speaking by that point. Of course, the Bible can be confusing due to a lack of quotation marks. I think verse 23 is Adam speaking, and verse 24 is the historian making a connection. Well, it would really be God speaking through the
historian.
The prophecy of Gen. 3:15 was fulfilled when Christ overcame Satan, sin, and death through the crucifixion and resurrection. While Judas was following Satan when he betrayed Jesus, there is much more to the prophecy.
When God refers to himself in the plural He is definitely referring to the Trinity.
Cain, Abel, and Seth's wives could only have come from their sisters. God did not forbid close intermarriage until the Mosaic law. Earlier in history, a family's genetics were not as similar, so physical deformities and dangerous mutations could not occur. As time passed, people groups and nations formed with the genetically similar folks living near one another. The gene pool became more limited, making physical deformities a result of marrying close relatives. This isn't a great explanation, you can read a better one here: http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/who-was-cains-wife
I wouldn't call the ark a 'tiny little box.' It was 450 ft. x 75 ft. x 45 ft.
About the 'Canaanite and the Perezzite.' The Amplified Bible reads: "And there was strife between the herds men of Abram's cattle and the herds men of Lot's cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite were dwelling then in the land [making fodder more difficult to obtain]."
Hope this helps!
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