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As I wrote in Cain and Abel Consistent with Old or Young Earth Scenario, there was sufficient time in Adam’s life for their to have been a woman for Cain to marry, and people for whom to build a city.  I say this, not only because I believe there were already people alive, but because Adam was 130 years old when Seth was born, and Seth replaced Abel for Eve.  This implies that there may have been as much as 130 years of pro-creation happening before Cain got married.  If half of all people born were women, each woman could start giving birth around 15 years …

Interesting Post: http://doctor.claudemariottini.com/2009/10/devastating-news-for-traditional.html.  It cites a possible discovery that “In the beginning, God separated the heavens and the earth.”

That’s right.  Separated.  Not created.

Well, if you think about it, God did separate the heavens from the earth.  Scientifically, if you accept that the heavens existed before the earth formed (but would be hidden until Day 4), then you can see that God actually set the earth apart for His purposes.  He really did separate the heavens from the earth!  And He really created them!  Both have always been true, so does it matter which fact the verse is recording?  Perhaps it’s recording both perspectives!

Both?

Well, read my post from a few years ago …

The story of Cain and Abel is a familiar one.  Cain tills the earth and Abel tends sheep.  They both prepare offerings to God.  God favors Abel’s sacrifice of his best lamb over Cain’s offering of vegetables.  Cain kills Abel, and God punishes Cain.  He then marks Cain so that no one will kill him for what he did.

The main Creation challenge for Christians in this story is generally lodged toward the end of it, when Cain takes a wife.  Genesis 4:17…
 17 Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch. 
Who did he marry?  His sister?  And what’s …

Interesting thought, huh?  It kind of makes you think of a woman, the first woman in the world, capable of conceiving a baby without the need for a man… a new trait for humanity, which Natural Selection would select either for against as a desiralbe trait for mankind.  Except Jesus never had kids by which to pass it on… and we’re unaware of Mary’s other children or desendents repeating a virgin birth.  Well, that isn’t what I was tallking about anyway.

What I noticed about Jesus’ conception is the balance between humanity and divinity.  On the one hand, Jesus has a physical ancestry going all the back to Adam and beyond.  On the other hand, God took one of Mary’s eggs …

…continued Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (Part 7)
22 And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 23 So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth …

I recently got to look at a common science text for home schooling Christian parents.  Homeschooling is a wonderful thing when done correctly, and the families I know are raising exceptional children.  In fact, the best science program I have found so far is this hands on science teacher who sells kits online, teaches over the Internet to provide real experiments and real understanding of the universe in which we live.  So, I was interested when of the parents let me see the science book that they were using.  It turns out that this was from a different curriculum than the one I expected.

I opened the book at random, and simply read two examples of proofs against evolution.  The first proof was …

One of my early premises of Geocreationism is that Jesus Himself was present for Creation.  Even the very first verse of the Bible says so.
Genesis 1:1 - “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
As I discussed in my post on Genesis 1:1a, the word for God is Elohim, a plural form of the one God.  It represents both God’s unequaled majesty, as well the Trinity, using a word that is both plural and singular at the same time.  John confirms this in his gospel in John 1:1-3, and Solomon describes why Jesus was there in Proverbs 8:22-26.  In fact, Solomon even goes on to give Jesus a voice in Proverbs 8:27-30a.  Here, …

…continued from Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (Part 6)
 21 The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
A loving act amidst their punishment.  It is curious that God made garments of skin for Adam and Eve.  The skins would have come from an animal.  Is it possible God killed a couple of animals for them?  I think He did.  Notice earlier in the chapter:
 8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid …

…continued from Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (Part 5)
 20 Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
I happened upon an interesting commentary on this vers at Accuracy In Genesis.  How Big is All?  Here is the beginning of that article:
For a first example look at Genesis 3:20 where per the King James Version Adam pronounces Eve as

“the mother of all living”How big is this all ? Is it totally inclusive of all living matter, plants, bacteria, aquatic life, bugs, fowl, and all the mammals and all primates?

Was she “mother nature” ?Or …

…continued from Genesis 3 - The Fall of Man (Part 4)

After disciplining the serpent, then Eve, God now turns to Adam, whom God had interrogated first on the matter…
 17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’
       “Cursed is the ground because of you;
       through painful toil you will eat of it
       all the days of your life.
Now this is harsh.  God had given him a garden, in which he had all the food he ever needed.  Of course, it did require tending, enough so that …