Now let’s focus on what happened after God created Adam.
For example, young-earthers want to believe that when God created Adam, after His day of rest, He created Eve and they woke up the next morning and went straight to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. However, the bible doesn't say that! Gen. 1:24-31 gives us an outline of the sixth day of creation. In Gen. 2:1-20, the bible goes into a little more detail about the 6th day. When discussing the time of creation, the bible uses the word “generations” in Gen. 2:4, I think the usage of that word, implies a longer period of time then six 24 hour days but a day of a thousand years, in my opinion, makes a lot more sense. I also think that the last phrase of Gen. 2:5 – “…and there was not a man to till the ground ” implies a longer time than a single day as the plant life God created needed time to expand and grow. When God created the fish, fowl and animals, I believe he created more than two of each. I think the whole earth was teeming with life all being fruitful, and multiplying before Adam was made.
We don’t know how long Adam was in the garden alone before God made Eve. I would guesstimate about five hundred years, if we consider a thousand yr. “day”. That gives Adam time to work and cultivate the garden until God decides that he needs a “companion/helper”. I believe that until the fall God’s creation was eternal and I believe that included plant and animal life as well. We also don’t know how long they both lived in the garden before the fall. I believe it's possible they could have lived thousands of years in the garden because they were created as eternal beings with access to the Tree of Life. In fact, before sin entered into the world everything was eternal because there was no death. Everything that God created was very good! There was no rot and decay among the plant life. From Gen. 1:29-30 it can be assumed that there were no meat eaters and everything that ate had a vegetarian type diet.
God told everything He created to be fruitful and multiply and I believe that was meant for Adam and Eve as well. Here are a couple of things you may not have considered before and were the catalysts for writing this paper. I was asking God for wisdom and knowledge concerning this issue and He led me to Gen. 3:16 and to look at it differently. One, is that as perfect human beings, they most likely had use of 100% of their brain, whereas science tells us that presently we only use about 10% of our brain. Imagine their intelligence! Sometimes they are pictured as doe-eyed innocents lost in a majestic garden and other times they’re pictured as little more than ignorant cave people but I believe both of those pictures vastly under-estimate the perfection of God’s creation.
Here is another thing that is never spoken of. Did you know that Eve must have had children before the fall because as part of their judgment in Gen. 3:16, God changed the parameters of child birth? “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.” If she had never had children how would she know the difference? How can something be “multiplied” from nothing?
I think if we reverse engineer this verse we can assume that prior to the fall childbirth was virtually painless and the length of pregnancy was much shorter. I believe it is very possible that they had hundreds or thousands of children before the fall!
As many of the prophetic fulfillments echo historical timing, I would guesstimate they lived around 3500 yrs. (3 ½ days/years) in the garden before the fall. This would bring Earth’s age closer to 16,000 yrs. or more, which falls closer in line with scientific theories regarding the dates of their evolution of man. The biblical record of childbirth just starts after the fall, when death entered into the equation and "time" began to matter! The day of the “fall” can also be considered as Adam’s birthday, as that is the day he and the rest of humanity began to die.
Recognizing this possibility solves three of the mysteries that surround the stories in Genesis. The first is that this would explain the “others" that Cain was concerned about (Gen. 4:14). The second would be the identity of the “sons of God” that mated with the daughters of men in Gen. 6:4. The third would be where the “giants” came from that are also found in vs. 4.
Is it possible that in God’s mind He separated the children of Adam and Eve into two groups? Perhaps the ones conceived before the fall which were eternal and had no prior knowledge of evil He considered “children of God” and those conceived after the fall would be considered the “children of men” because they lost access to the Tree of Life and were no longer His children but the children, so to speak, of the Evil One now that they had received the basic sin nature that we all would inherit.
Speaking to that issue, I’m not a scientist but it’s my opinion that both of those trees had genetic/dna consequences. The Tree of Life extended their lives and added to their aspect as eternal beings, which was one of the aspects of the likeness of God in which they were created. From their partaking of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the only way it made them more like God was the newly acquired knowledge and awareness of evil. That knowledge, I believe, was also inherently passed down through the generations via our gene pool passed down through the man’s seed. That is why God had to use His seed and a virgin so Jesus could be born w/o that basic sin nature. It was the only way He had a chance to live a sinless life and thus become the pure and spotless Lamb that was sacrificed for our sakes.
This also explains why they were so long-lived before the flood. It took time for the eternal aspect of their DNA to degrade down to the point where our life span had decreased to 120 years or less.
I also believe the antediluvian civilization because of the sons of God were far more advanced then we give them credit for and thankfully most of that knowledge was lost in the flood. As man was created in God’s image we most likely received the desire to explore and create as well. Imagine the things we could come up with if we had access to 100% of our brain. I believe they excelled at agriculture and animal husbandry and as herbalists and many other “earth” sciences that we lost because of the flood.
When evil came upon the earth it wouldn’t surprise me if their knowledge took a darker turn towards genetic manipulation and plant based chemistry. Perhaps they are the ones that created the ancient carnivores like T-Rexes, maybe in an effort to eradicate bothersome creatures who were ruining their planting efforts, and such and it’s not impossible that they mixed human and animal DNA to come up with the creatures from Greek Mythology as well, whose stories were passed down from the sons of Noah which were added to or changed as what happens when tales are passed down through the generations. Let’s not forget the possibility of plant-based chemical enhancements and DNA manipulation that could create the “giants” and “men of renown” also from Gen. 6:4.
I’m not declaring everything in this article to be the truth but as seekers of the truth shouldn’t we consider all the possibilities that are out there? These are just some of the thoughts I’ve pondered over the years on this, to me, very interesting topic. I do have one question for those who have a leaning towards evolution. What would the “half-life” register of a creature with either eternal or partial eternal DNA? It wouldn’t surprise me if it registered a couple hundred million years or more!
For example, young-earthers want to believe that when God created Adam, after His day of rest, He created Eve and they woke up the next morning and went straight to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. However, the bible doesn't say that! Gen. 1:24-31 gives us an outline of the sixth day of creation. In Gen. 2:1-20, the bible goes into a little more detail about the 6th day. When discussing the time of creation, the bible uses the word “generations” in Gen. 2:4, I think the usage of that word, implies a longer period of time then six 24 hour days but a day of a thousand years, in my opinion, makes a lot more sense. I also think that the last phrase of Gen. 2:5 – “…and there was not a man to till the ground ” implies a longer time than a single day as the plant life God created needed time to expand and grow. When God created the fish, fowl and animals, I believe he created more than two of each. I think the whole earth was teeming with life all being fruitful, and multiplying before Adam was made.
We don’t know how long Adam was in the garden alone before God made Eve. I would guesstimate about five hundred years, if we consider a thousand yr. “day”. That gives Adam time to work and cultivate the garden until God decides that he needs a “companion/helper”. I believe that until the fall God’s creation was eternal and I believe that included plant and animal life as well. We also don’t know how long they both lived in the garden before the fall. I believe it's possible they could have lived thousands of years in the garden because they were created as eternal beings with access to the Tree of Life. In fact, before sin entered into the world everything was eternal because there was no death. Everything that God created was very good! There was no rot and decay among the plant life. From Gen. 1:29-30 it can be assumed that there were no meat eaters and everything that ate had a vegetarian type diet.
God told everything He created to be fruitful and multiply and I believe that was meant for Adam and Eve as well. Here are a couple of things you may not have considered before and were the catalysts for writing this paper. I was asking God for wisdom and knowledge concerning this issue and He led me to Gen. 3:16 and to look at it differently. One, is that as perfect human beings, they most likely had use of 100% of their brain, whereas science tells us that presently we only use about 10% of our brain. Imagine their intelligence! Sometimes they are pictured as doe-eyed innocents lost in a majestic garden and other times they’re pictured as little more than ignorant cave people but I believe both of those pictures vastly under-estimate the perfection of God’s creation.
Here is another thing that is never spoken of. Did you know that Eve must have had children before the fall because as part of their judgment in Gen. 3:16, God changed the parameters of child birth? “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.” If she had never had children how would she know the difference? How can something be “multiplied” from nothing?
I think if we reverse engineer this verse we can assume that prior to the fall childbirth was virtually painless and the length of pregnancy was much shorter. I believe it is very possible that they had hundreds or thousands of children before the fall!
As many of the prophetic fulfillments echo historical timing, I would guesstimate they lived around 3500 yrs. (3 ½ days/years) in the garden before the fall. This would bring Earth’s age closer to 16,000 yrs. or more, which falls closer in line with scientific theories regarding the dates of their evolution of man. The biblical record of childbirth just starts after the fall, when death entered into the equation and "time" began to matter! The day of the “fall” can also be considered as Adam’s birthday, as that is the day he and the rest of humanity began to die.
Recognizing this possibility solves three of the mysteries that surround the stories in Genesis. The first is that this would explain the “others" that Cain was concerned about (Gen. 4:14). The second would be the identity of the “sons of God” that mated with the daughters of men in Gen. 6:4. The third would be where the “giants” came from that are also found in vs. 4.
Is it possible that in God’s mind He separated the children of Adam and Eve into two groups? Perhaps the ones conceived before the fall which were eternal and had no prior knowledge of evil He considered “children of God” and those conceived after the fall would be considered the “children of men” because they lost access to the Tree of Life and were no longer His children but the children, so to speak, of the Evil One now that they had received the basic sin nature that we all would inherit.
Speaking to that issue, I’m not a scientist but it’s my opinion that both of those trees had genetic/dna consequences. The Tree of Life extended their lives and added to their aspect as eternal beings, which was one of the aspects of the likeness of God in which they were created. From their partaking of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the only way it made them more like God was the newly acquired knowledge and awareness of evil. That knowledge, I believe, was also inherently passed down through the generations via our gene pool passed down through the man’s seed. That is why God had to use His seed and a virgin so Jesus could be born w/o that basic sin nature. It was the only way He had a chance to live a sinless life and thus become the pure and spotless Lamb that was sacrificed for our sakes.
This also explains why they were so long-lived before the flood. It took time for the eternal aspect of their DNA to degrade down to the point where our life span had decreased to 120 years or less.
I also believe the antediluvian civilization because of the sons of God were far more advanced then we give them credit for and thankfully most of that knowledge was lost in the flood. As man was created in God’s image we most likely received the desire to explore and create as well. Imagine the things we could come up with if we had access to 100% of our brain. I believe they excelled at agriculture and animal husbandry and as herbalists and many other “earth” sciences that we lost because of the flood.
When evil came upon the earth it wouldn’t surprise me if their knowledge took a darker turn towards genetic manipulation and plant based chemistry. Perhaps they are the ones that created the ancient carnivores like T-Rexes, maybe in an effort to eradicate bothersome creatures who were ruining their planting efforts, and such and it’s not impossible that they mixed human and animal DNA to come up with the creatures from Greek Mythology as well, whose stories were passed down from the sons of Noah which were added to or changed as what happens when tales are passed down through the generations. Let’s not forget the possibility of plant-based chemical enhancements and DNA manipulation that could create the “giants” and “men of renown” also from Gen. 6:4.
I’m not declaring everything in this article to be the truth but as seekers of the truth shouldn’t we consider all the possibilities that are out there? These are just some of the thoughts I’ve pondered over the years on this, to me, very interesting topic. I do have one question for those who have a leaning towards evolution. What would the “half-life” register of a creature with either eternal or partial eternal DNA? It wouldn’t surprise me if it registered a couple hundred million years or more!
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