When Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden, it does seem they entered into an already populated world. Now where would this population come from? While there is no definitive answer, we can't assume that God simply stopped creating humans after Adam and Eve. It is likely - and I know I am traversing into theory here - that God created Adam and Eve as the first humans and wanted to keep them close to Him becos of that, then went on creating and populating the world. Now does this mean He was not gonna bring those he created outside of the Garden to Him? Not necessarily, those are things we cannot know becos whatever those intentions were were lost when Adam and Eve sinned. Alot of this, okay most of this, is just theory I have been working on while reading the Bible myself and trying to make sense of it all. It is likely that God went on creating after Adam and Eve and populated the world thus, then Adam and Eve were made part of it upon banishment from Eden. I have no scripture to back this up, no educated writings to support this argument, this is merely something I am working on myself. An English professor once told me of a theory on where all the water for the Flood came from: there was like a second atmosphere above the Earth and on top of this, a massive ocean covering the world. (Genesis: "created a firmament in the heavens"? maybe?) This would've created a highly oxygenated enviroment, thus granting long life to creatures that populated the world below; perhpas why human lifespans seemed to shorten so much after the Flood, while they were much longer beforehand. When the time for the Flood came, God simply pricked a hole in that second atmosphere (metaphorically speaking) and it all rained down and washed away. Again, not necessarily truth, but a theory that could helkp explain a lot.
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A mystery left unsolved...
Date: 2003-09-09 05:41 pm (UTC)Alot of this, okay most of this, is just theory I have been working on while reading the Bible myself and trying to make sense of it all. It is likely that God went on creating after Adam and Eve and populated the world thus, then Adam and Eve were made part of it upon banishment from Eden. I have no scripture to back this up, no educated writings to support this argument, this is merely something I am working on myself.
An English professor once told me of a theory on where all the water for the Flood came from: there was like a second atmosphere above the Earth and on top of this, a massive ocean covering the world. (Genesis: "created a firmament in the heavens"? maybe?) This would've created a highly oxygenated enviroment, thus granting long life to creatures that populated the world below; perhpas why human lifespans seemed to shorten so much after the Flood, while they were much longer beforehand. When the time for the Flood came, God simply pricked a hole in that second atmosphere (metaphorically speaking) and it all rained down and washed away.
Again, not necessarily truth, but a theory that could helkp explain a lot.
Well, I'm done....
By the way...this is Jared.