Therefore, your rebuttal is being negated based on your presumption of my position which is incorrect. Perhaps, you should clarify where I stand first before posting your reply.
It's not my intention to solely orchestrate a rebuttal of what you say nor is it negated by what I have outlined (negated in the sense of outside of, perhaps, your own mind). It's my intention to go through what the Bible has to say and I think the layout of the events are clear enough. However, everyone's open to their intepretation, and as I will continue to say, read it yourself before believing myself or anyone else.Also, I will say that I think you're playing fire on your interpretations of the Nephilim and Cain (and the Kenites) because they are a very real and important concept. The Kenites (descedents of Cain) are still around and you're sorely mistaken if you think the flood wiped them out:
Genesis 6:19 And of
every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
Genesis 7:15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark,
two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.I posted this in another thread. Every flesh means every flesh.Number two, the Bible clearly says the Kenites survived in multiple verses:
Numbers 24:21 And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.
Judges 4:11 Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.
1 Samuel 15:6 And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
1 Samuel 27:10 And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.
1 Samuel 30:29 And to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites,
1 Chronicles 2:55 And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.Truly and deeply, with all due respect because you have apparently studied and I know you're on the right path, you seem to want to pick and choose verses of the Bible and you just cannot do that.In closing, go back to Genesis and the Bible is clear that this idea that man was formed on the third day is incorrect. There is a clear divider of the days that is outlined:
Genesis 1And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth....There's a clear logical progression here that is undeniable.