No...the God did not curse the Earth. God is always good. God does not do bad because God is infinitely busy being good.
God was relaying or stating truth to Adam because of what he and Eve (Hawwa) did.
Remember when God said that the whole earth was "Very Good" ? OK...well considering that the whole section is prose it was another way of saying that the whole earth was Holy...including Adam. (since Eve didn't come till later women are unholy...always...LOL..Just a joke)
Holy does denote goodness/perfection...but that isn't all. Something that is holy also has a positive response to error should one come up. Remember Adam's role in the Garden? If it was hyper-perfect (like God) there would be no tending to do whatsoever...
But the whole earth is holy because God touched it and made it.
However...God did not make the Earth with the ability to forgive. It simply wasn't/isn't an attribute that the Earth is capable of. What God was trying to tell Adam and Eve that the path to true hyper-perfection and eternal life lies within the active use of forgiveness of errors.
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Cain went to the Land of Nod or "land of wandering" where if someone was able to read this section in Hebrew as it was originally written you would see that what Cain actually did was build a Levitical city of Refuge for one accused of murder. The allusions to that kind of city can't and won't be seen in English translations...only the Hebrew holds those contexts...but it is unmistakable and undeniable when seen.
Because of the allusion to this Levitical city making an assumption that Cain is now in a Levite type position or Priestly position; he belongs to God. Since he belongs to God he is now uncountable and unmeasurable. Just like during the census of Moses...the Levite clan was never counted. There were thirteen tribes...but since one belonged to God during all the years of Israel's history only 12 were counted.
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As far as Lamech goes.....
What is seen is a twisting of God's laws already.
IOW...instead of forgiveness or even an equitable trade of injuries (eye for an eye.....) we see a very harsh response to perceived sins against his person instead of against God. Never mind the fact that he took two wives instead of only one. Again this speaks to his pride as if he was more deserving and more righteous than anyone.
God was relaying or stating truth to Adam because of what he and Eve (Hawwa) did.
Remember when God said that the whole earth was "Very Good" ? OK...well considering that the whole section is prose it was another way of saying that the whole earth was Holy...including Adam. (since Eve didn't come till later women are unholy...always...LOL..Just a joke)
Holy does denote goodness/perfection...but that isn't all. Something that is holy also has a positive response to error should one come up. Remember Adam's role in the Garden? If it was hyper-perfect (like God) there would be no tending to do whatsoever...
But the whole earth is holy because God touched it and made it.
However...God did not make the Earth with the ability to forgive. It simply wasn't/isn't an attribute that the Earth is capable of. What God was trying to tell Adam and Eve that the path to true hyper-perfection and eternal life lies within the active use of forgiveness of errors.
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Cain went to the Land of Nod or "land of wandering" where if someone was able to read this section in Hebrew as it was originally written you would see that what Cain actually did was build a Levitical city of Refuge for one accused of murder. The allusions to that kind of city can't and won't be seen in English translations...only the Hebrew holds those contexts...but it is unmistakable and undeniable when seen.
Because of the allusion to this Levitical city making an assumption that Cain is now in a Levite type position or Priestly position; he belongs to God. Since he belongs to God he is now uncountable and unmeasurable. Just like during the census of Moses...the Levite clan was never counted. There were thirteen tribes...but since one belonged to God during all the years of Israel's history only 12 were counted.
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As far as Lamech goes.....
What is seen is a twisting of God's laws already.
IOW...instead of forgiveness or even an equitable trade of injuries (eye for an eye.....) we see a very harsh response to perceived sins against his person instead of against God. Never mind the fact that he took two wives instead of only one. Again this speaks to his pride as if he was more deserving and more righteous than anyone.