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As described in Dating the Flood (Part 5) - Is the Jewish Calendar off by 700 years?, the Jewish calendar would seem to predict a date for the flood that is off by 702 years. If add up the ages in Genesis 5, we get 1,656, with a skew of up to 10 years.  Suppose the skew is actually 2 years and the interpretation of the Jewish calendar is of by 700 years.  This suggests Adam was born 4,461 BC (6,471 years ago).  Why would the Jewish Calendar be off?  What happened during those 700 years, and why would the end of those years be the logical place …

In Dating the Flood (Part 4) - Is the Jewish Calendar off by 700 years?, we talked about competing dates for the flood.  If the earth was created precisely 4,000 years ago, as many Christians believe, then the genealogy in Genesis 5, and Noah’s age at the time of the flood in Genesis 7, suggest the flood occurred 1,656 years later, or 2,344 BC.  The problem is that this does not coincide with the physical evidence discussed in Dating the Flood… May 10, 2807 B.C.?.

The reason for considering 2,344 as candidate …

In Dating the Flood… May 10, 2807 B.C.?, Dating the Flood… when Science Meets History, and Scientific Dating of Sodom and Gomorrah Supports Flood Date (Yeah, I know I didn’t label any of them as “Parts”), I made the case that scientific and historical evidence may be dating the Flood to around 2800 B.C.  Interestingly, I have found that Young Earther sites tend to date the Flood to around 2344, almost 500 years later.  I understand how they reach it.  They add up the …

 12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
So, having established that the flood was not global, that there was human life throughout the world, and that only Noah’s part was completely wiped out, some peculiarities in God’s statement suddenly become more clear.  God was not making a covenant with those alive in Egpyt, China, India, Australia, or the Americas.  He was making a covenant with Noah and his descendants, and the animals on the ark and their descendants.  However, in a practical sense, these descendants have spread throughout the world, and so I believe …

 8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 “I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10 and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
I have been on these verses since August 31.  I have been trying to move on to verse 12, …

As I wrote about in Genesis 9:8-11 - The Recipients of God’s Covenant with Noah (Part 3) - The others were in God’s image, too, most of the world today is not descended form Adam.  They were created in God’s image long before Adam.  Adam however is the first person to have been given a command to believe and obey from God, and so the first person to actually fall from grace.  The rest of the world was given no law from God, and so had no law to fall from.  What does that say …

As wrote in Genesis 9:8-11 - The Recipients of God’s Covenant with Noah (Part 2) - Who else was there?, it would seem that most of the modern world did not initially descend from Adam, let alone Noah.  My list was not exhaustive, but according to fossil records, the following major populations of people have been around since before Adam:

China - 67,000 years
India - 30,000 years
Africa - 200,000 years
Native Americans - 16,500 - 40,000 years
Australia - 40,000 years
Middle East - 60,000 years

Adam descended from the Middle Eastern population, after it left Africa.  He lived somewhere around 6,000 to 10,000 …

As described in Genesis 9:8-11 - The Recipients of God’s Covenant with Noah, the recipients of God’s promise to never wipe out all people from a land are Noah and his descendants.  This was not the first time God excluded most of the world from a covenant (Adamic covenant was only with Adam and his descendants, not the rest of the world).  It would not be the last (The Mosaic covenant would only be with the descendants of Isaac).  That said, God reserves the right to graft non-recipients into a covenant, hence making them recipients if He so chooses.  Consider this passage from Romans 11…
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 8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 “I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10 and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
Referring back to …

With the flood over, it would seem that God is looking back over the circumstances that led to the flood, and is given Noah and his family a slightly different set of rules by which to live.

Before the fall, God gave man plants to eat (Gen 1:29, 2:16), and animals to subdue (Gen 1:28, 2:18).  After the fall, God cursed the ground (Gen. 3:17), making it hard to till.  Rather than farm the ground, Abel decided to raise animals for food (Gen 4:2,4); Cain tilled the ground (Gen 4:2,3).  Now, how do we know Abel’s flocks were for food? Because he knew to give God the fat most flavorful part… the fat portions. 

Cain, it would seem, was the more obedient …