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Again, I appreciate the fact that you are really digging into this topic. Thanks. You are really giving this some serious thought while others are satisfied to give us the party line. Very interesting points. Add this to what I was saying earlier about Moses writing in Gen.2 about the...

As I have said already, your assumptions are not supported by the text. You appear to be arguing just to argue. And no, I will not explain again. Re-read if you need to. You have convinced yourself. Be satisfied with that, or consider an alternative view. Could you successful debate this...

Those are interesting questions. I especially wonder about what Moses wrote concerning the seventh day in the creation week. (Gen.2:2-3) Many use that text to claim that the Sabbath day was from the beginning. But Moses was writing this in retrospect after the law had been given to the...

It was a selected geneology. Nothing wrong with that. I'm more interested in who WAS included. That is truly worth study. Why study things that tear down the Bible and erode our confidence in it? Except to understand where the teachers of error are saying.

The Jews are guilty of liberal theology too. Reader beware. Anyone who claims, or infers, that the Bible is a book of myths, or full of inaccuracies, is not to be taken seriously, or trusted. Whether Christian, Jew, or agnostic.

These things were of great importance to these peoples. Who they were and where they came from. The stories of what had happened. They didn't just sit around playing video games. (with no concerns for the past or future) There were important things to consider. Knowing who your allies were and...

Yes. I think if we want to expand on the text, this is the way to go. Rather than imposing the law of Moses on the situation. That makes no sense to me whatsoever.

Yes, we need a topic about biblical family dysfunction. lol

All sorts of problems with this. I'll limit my response. If Satan approached Eve, why would the biblical narrative replace him with a serpent? If Eve didn't know who he was, why would she not question him? Why the displayed level of trust? And what about the consequesnces for what the...

We have genealogies that tell exactly how much time passed.

I didn't say that he couldn't. I'm basing my analysis on what the text does say, not what it doesn't. The text says that, "In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord." - Gen.4:3 Cain worked the soul. It was an offering of what he had done...

I see this as the earliest example on mental illness. Cain showed the symptoms of depression. Best described as a fallen countenance. An anger fueled sadness. We should try to put ourselves in his shoes. That will require a bit of conjecture, so this will be in and out of the text. A reading...

This brings up more interesting points. At the fall the serpent spoke to Eve. And she didn't say, "Now you are talking? What's going on here?" It was the norm. After the Flood Noah was making sacrifices, if I remember correctly. Anyone else prior? Not that I recall. The passage in question...

The text doesn't tell us a lot of things. I suggest we stick what it does tell us. What do we know for sure without entering into conjecture?

Right. That's a leap well away from the text. (unsupportable) The passage is about offerings from ones occupation, not a sin offering.

Yes, of course. But what does the text tells us? (about Cain and Abel) … Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. - Gen.4:2

That is some terrible commentary. Is a sin offering crouching at the door wanting to have Cain? (pounce on him) Genesis 4:7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”

We make these observations in retrospect. I thnk there was a lot that Adam and Eve did not understand. If they really understood the consequences of eating the forbidden fruit, they would not have done it. And even the text you provided does not indicate that Adam and Eve understood the...

The text is clear. Focus on that. … Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. - Gen.4:2 Got it?

How do you qualify that claim? Nothing in the Gen.4 text says anything about that.